December 2014
Shuchi has been awarded the UCD graduate student travel award.
November 2014
Yohei‘s review article has been published in Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology.
Shota gave a presentation at the Innovative Bioproduction Kobe Symposium for Synthetic Biology (11/25/2014. Kobe, Japan).
Nicole has been awarded the ACS WCC/Eli Lilly Travel Grant.
“Industrial Biocatalysis” containing a chapter contributed by Jordan has been published.
Shota gave a presentation at the 3rd Asia-Oceania Algae Innovation Summit (11/17-20/2014, Daejeon, Korea).
Annabelle joins the lab as a rotation student from MGG.
October 2014
Shota is on the Editorial Board of Scientific Reports.
Shota gave a presentation at the 2014 International Symposium on Synthetic Biology (10/26-26/2014, Beijing, China).
Shuchi presented her research at the DEB chalk talk (10/22/2014).
Shota gave a seminar at University of the Pacific (10/7/2014, Stockton, CA).
September 2014
Beatriz joins the lab as a rotation student from MGG.
Shota had a seminar at Colorado School of Mines (9/19/2014, Golden, CO).
Masahiro joins the lab as a visiting researcher.
Shota had a seminar at Sac State (9/12/2014, Sacramento, CA).
Shota gave a presentation at 7th International Congress on Biocatalysis (Biocat2014)(8/31-9/4/2014, Hamburg, Germany).
August 2014
Nicole has been selected for one of the 2014-2015 NIH/Biotechnology Fellows.
Our cyanobacteria project was featured in the Sacramento Bee.
Gabe‘s aldehyde paper “Toward aldehyde and alkane production by removing aldehyde reductase activity in Escherichia coli” has been published in Metabolic Engineering.
We had another great year for the ACS project SEED.
Pangying gave a presentation to complete the 2013 ACS project SEED.
July 2014
Nicole, Shuchi, Anna’s review article “Metabolic engineering for Higher alcohol production” has been published in Metabolic Engineering.
Shota served as a session chair with Prof. Himadri Pakrasi (WUSTL) for “Metabolic engineering of phototrophic microbes” at the SIMB annual meeting (St. Louis, MO, 7/21/2014).
Jordan’s perspective article “Engineering trophic diversity into photosynthetic microbes” has been published in Biofuels.
“Biofuel: From Microbe to Molecules” containing a chapter contributed by Jordan and Yohei has been published.
June 2014
Commencement 2014. Congrats, Gabe and John! (6/12/2014)
Shota gave a presentation at the Metabolomics and Metabolic Engineering workshop (UCLA, 6/4/2014).
Gabe and Shota visited REG (6/3/2014).
May 2014
Judy gave a presentation at the Larock Conference (5/17/2014).
April 2014
Noeli gave a presentation at the 25th Annual Undergraduate Research Conference (4/26/14).
Shota has been selected to receive a CAREER Award from the NSF.
John’s review article has been published in Photosynthesis Research.
Nicole and Shuchi gave pretantions at the Interdisciplinary Graduate and Professional Student Symposium (4/4/2014).
Shota gave a talk at UCD Plant Sciences (4/2/2014).
Prof. Matt Cordes (U Arizona) gave a seminar in our department (4/1/2014).
March 2014
Shotagave a seminar at UCSB Chemistry & Biochemistry (3/26/2014).
Shota gave a talk at Matrix Genetics (Seattle, 3/20/2014).
Gabe and Shota gave a talk at the ACS annual meeting (Dallas, 3/16/2014).
Shota gave a talk at the Food & Fuel for the 21st Century symposium (San Diego, 3/14/2014).
Gabe gave a chalk talk at DEB pizza talk (3/12/14).
Shota gave a talk at LBL (Host: Dr. Christer Jansson 3/11/2014).
Gabe & Yohei’s ester paper has been published in Nature Chemical Biology.
News & Views by Dr. Brett M Barney (U Minnesota)
UC Davis News by Andy Fell
February 2014
Shota attended the ARPA-E kickoff meeting (2/27/2014, Arlington, VA)
We had the technology showcase at the ARPA-E energy innovation summit (2/24-26/2014, Washington DC).
Prof. Bob Blankenship (Washington U, St. Louis) gave a seminar in our department (2/18/2014).
January 2014
Gabe gave a talk at CBIG meeting (1/22/2014).
Shota did a seminar at JBEI (1/15/2014).
Shuchi‘s paper has been accepted for publication in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology (link).
The paper by John, Iara, and Hisanari has been accepted for publication in Metabolic Engineering (link).
Our ARPA-E REMOTE project with Michael and Justin kicks-off!