News - 2016
Calendar icon January 26, 2016
A patent entitled "Methods and Compositions for Production of Blue Pigment Indigoidine" (U.S. Patent No. 9,243,269) has been issued to the Zhan Lab.
![A patent entitled Methods and Compositions for Production of Blue Pigment Indigoidine](/be/faculty-sites/metabolicengineering/images/news/2016/2016-02-09_Indigodine_0056-web.jpg)
Calendar icon February 8, 2016
Group lunch at the HuHot restaurant to kick off another productive year.
![Group lunch at the HuHot restaurant](/be/faculty-sites/metabolicengineering/images/news/2016/2016%20group%20lunch.jpg)
Calendar icon March 2, 2016
Gabi has successfully defended her master's thesis. Congratulations!
![Gabi's Defense](/be/faculty-sites/metabolicengineering/images/news/2016/2016-March-2_Gabi%20defense.jpg)
Calendar icon March 6, 2016
Lei's work on a type III PKS involved in spirolaxine biosynthesis has been accepted for publication in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. Congratulations!
Calendar icon April 7-9, 2016
Lei gave oral and poster presentations at the 2016 Institute of Biological Engineering annual conference in Greenville, South Carolina.
![Lei gave oral and poster presentations](/be/faculty-sites/metabolicengineering/images/news/2016/2016%20IBE%20Lei%20photo.jpg)
Calendar icon May 11, 2016
Our work on dutomycin biosynthesis has been accepted for publication in ACS Chemical Biology.
Calendar icon May 24, 2016
Joint group BBQ party with the Chang and Takemoto Labs.
![Joint group BBQ party](/be/faculty-sites/metabolicengineering/images/news/2016/2016-05-23%20bbq%20party.jpg)
![Joint group BBQ party](/be/faculty-sites/metabolicengineering/images/news/2016/2016-05-23%20bbq%20party-2.jpg)