Huge congratulations to Zhongtian Zhang (aka Nemo) who passed his final defense! Dr. Zhang will soon begin work at Amyris. Nemo was a trainee of the Microbiology Graduate Program at NC State. His work involved the identification, characterization, and application of a novel CRISPR-Cas system. Ph.D. #14 for the Williams Group!

Kudos to Tad Paulsel for being awarded the Department of Chemistry Anderson Award for Teaching!

Huge kudos to Lexie Malico who passed her final Ph.D. defense! Dr. Malico will begin work soon at BASF as part of their professional development program. Ph.D. #13 for the group! We wish her all the best in her future endeavors!

We are thrilled to share our latest polyketide synthase engineering work by Edward Kalkreuter and our collaborators at the University of Michigan in Nature Communications. This work sets the stage to further diversify the structures of macrolides for drug development and discovery.

See the NC State press release here.

Congratulations to Dr. Lindsay Nichols who recently passed her final Ph.D. defense. Lindsay is now a research scientist at Baebies. We wish her all the best in her future endeavors!

Thrilled to share our latest review article, “Transcription factor-based biosensors: A molecular-guided approach for natural product engineering”, with Melissa Mitchler, Jessie Garcia, and Nichole Montero. Nice work everybody!