2012

December 2012

Jordan’s paper has been accepted for publication in AEM (12/26/12). Mike started the project and Iara assisted the project.

Atsumi group year end party (12/15/12)

Shota gave a talke in the 6th IECA conference on Synthetic biology with applications to Biotechnology (Taipei, Taiwan, 12/10-11/12).

The manuscript by John, Iara, and Hisanari has been accepted for publication in PNAS (12/5/12).

November 2012

Matt joins the lab as a BMCDB rotation student.

October 2012

Shota gave a talk in the 90th Anniversary Meeting of the Society for Biotechnology, Japan, “Biotechnology for Green Growth” (Oct 26th, 2012).

Shota gave a talk in Microbiology department seminar series (MIC 291) (10/17/2012).

Gabe and Shota gave poster and short talks, respectively, at the CIFAR Technology conference XXXI (10/12/2012).

September 2012

Shota gave a talk at the 19th International Microbial Genomes Conference (Lake Arrowhead, CA, 9/20/2012).

Gabe’s paper has been published in Microbial Cell Factories.

Nicole joins the lab as a graduate student.

August 2012

Shota served as a coordinator for 2012 ACS Project SEED.

June 2012

Shota is on a report, “How Immigrants are Reinventing the American Economy” from the Partnership for a New American Economy.

Vicky joins the lab as a UC LEADS scholar.

Gabe’s paper about isobutyraldehyde production in E. coli was published in Microbial Cell Factories.

Shota has been selected to be a 2012-2013 UC Davis Hellman Fellow.

Robert joins the lab as a REU student.

Edna’s review article Recent progress in synthetic biology for microbial production of C3-C10 alcohols” was published in Frontiers in Microbiotechnology, Ecotoxicology and Bioremediation.

May 2012

Gabe has been selected for the NIH Biotechnology Fellow (2012-2013).

The project with the Asahi Kasei Corporation was highlighted on the UCD internationally engaged newsletter.

Edna’s review article “Recent progress in synthetic biology for microbial production of C3-C10 alcohols” has been accepted for publication in Frontiers in Microbiotechnology, Ecotoxicology and Bioremediation.

Anh gave a talk in the 2012 Richard Larock Conference (5/12/2012).

April 2012

Shota gave a talk in the Low-Carbon Forum of Urban and Regional Development (Hangzhou, China, 4/26-27/2012).


UC Davis Aggies!


West Lake (Hangzhou)

Gabe gave a talk in the 3rd year student seminar (4/12/2012).

Iara’s review has been published in Journal of Biotechnology.

March 2012

Gabe’s review was published in Current Chemical Biology.

Shota served as a session chair of “Applications of Systems Biology, Synthetic Biology, and Metabolic Engineering” with Hal Alper (U Texas) at 243rd ACS National Meeting (3/25-29/2012, San Diego, CA).

Iara’s review article “Cyanobacterial biofuel production” has been accepted for publication in Journal of Biotechnology.

February 2012

Wilfred Chen (U Delaware) gave a semina in our department (2/14/2012).

Jordan had a chalk-talk at the DEB pizza seminar (2/8/2012).

Patrick Cirino (U. Houston) gave a seminar in our department (2/7/2012).

January 2012

Shuchi joins the lab as a rotation student from MGG.

Gabe’s review article “Synthetic biology approaches to produce C3-C6 alcohols from microorganisms” has been accepted for publication in Current Chemical Biology.

Jordan’s review article
has been published in Current Opinion in Biotechnology.

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