April 2024

Alex was awarded the NSF GRFP. Congrats, Alex! Jayce gave a STEM talk and won 2nd place at the DEB retreat. Bryant and Nhu presented posters. Nhu recieved the best poster award (4/6/24). Jayce's efforts to recycle lab plastic waste won the award for Sustainable Laboratory of the Year. Jayce presented her research at the DEB pizza talk (4/3/2024).

March 2024

Shannon's review article about the microbial production of human milk oligosaccharides has been published in Current Opinion in Food Science.   Jayce presented the NSF ELiS project and received the RSC Chemical Biology Poster award at the 24th RB Miller symposium (3/14-15/2024).

February 2024

Shannon gave her 3yr seminar (2/16/2024).

January 2024

Jada, Zach, and Xong join the lab.

November 2023

Subah joins the lab as MGG rotation student.

September 2023

The allulose paper describing the collaboration with the Siegel lab and Mars has been published in npj Science of Food. UC Davis Press Release Jake's paper describing the collaboration with the Mayfield lab (UCSD) has been published in Communications Biology. Tanner's paper describing the collaboration with the Berben lab has been published in Metabolic Engineering. Shota gave a seminar at Zbiotics (9/15/23). Jake had his exit seminar (9/1/23). Congrats, Dr. Gonzales!

August 2023

Tanner had his exit seminar (8/14/23). Congrats, Dr. Treece!   Shota gave a seminar at IBC, Academia Sinica (Zoom, 8/14/23). German, Alexa, Payton, Saif, and Victoria completed the ACS Project SEED program.   Shota gave a seminar at National Taiwan University (8/4/23).

July 2023

Shota gave special lectures at National Chung Hsing University (7/31-8/2/23). Tanner's paper has been published in Metabolic Engineering. Shota gave a seminar at Kyushu U (7/7/2023).

June 2023

Spring 2023 Graduate Studies Commencement (6/15/2023) Congrats, Jake and Tanner! Shota gave a seminar at Emery Pharma (6/9/2023, zoom).

May 2023

Tanner presented his research at the CBIG meeting (5/31/2023). Elika, Twisha, and Nick presented their reserach at the 2023 Richard Larock Conference (5/20/2023). Elika won a best presentation award in physical/analytical chemistry.