News - 2014

Calendar icon February 10, 2014

Dr. Zhan was named 2014 Outstanding Researcher of the Biological Engineering Department.

Calendar icon February 22, 2014

Steven won the 1st place overall at the Bridgerland Science and Engineering Fair.

Calendar icon February 26, 2014

Tong's work on resorcylide and lasiodiplodin biosynthesis has been accepted for publication in ACS Chemical Biology.

Calendar icon March 4-7, 2014

Lei attended the BioTrac training Trac 45, Bioinformatic Analysis of Next Generation Sequencing Data in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Calendar icon March 6-8, 2014

Siyuan gave an oral presentation at the 2014 Institute of Biological Engineering annual conference in Lexington, Kentucky.

Siyuan gave an oral presentation

Calendar icon March 16, 2014

Dr. Zhan was invited to present at the 247th American Chemical Society National Meeting in Dallas, Texas.

Calendar icon May 6, 2014

Kandy, Gabi and Lei attended the Utah State University (USU) – University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) Mini-Symposium on Biotechnology, Energy and Materials (BEM) in Las Vegas. Kandy won the second prize for her poster presentation. Congratulations!

Kandy, Gabi, and Lei
Kandy
Gabi
Lei

Calendar icon May 12, 2014

The work on biocatalytic synthesis of two new hydroxylated derivatives of spironolactone by Jianfeng, Luoyi and Siyuan has been accepted for publication in Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. Congratulations!

Calendar icon May 30, 2014

Summer BBQ party.

Summer BBQ party Summer BBQ party

Calendar icon June 23 , 2014

The work on combinatorial biosynthesis of benzenediol lactones by Tong, Shuwei and Luoyi has been accepted for publication in PNAS. Congratulations! News Link

Calendar icon June 24 , 2014

The work on pradimicin biosynthesis by Kandy, Shuwei, Whitney and Thomas has been accepted for publication in ChemBioChem. Congratulations!

Calendar icon July 20-24, 2014

Kandy presented her work at the 2014 SIMB Annual Meeting in St. Louis, MO.

Kandy presented her work at the 2014 SIMB Annual Meeting

Calendar icon September 20, 2014

Gabi and Lei presented at Hansen Life Science Retreat in the American West Heritage Center.

Calendar icon November 3, 2014

The work on novel flaviolin derivatives in E. coli by Lei, Jia, Shuwei and Tyler has been accepted for publicatoin in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. Congratulations!