- Saurabh’s paper on the optoPlateReader available on bioRxiv!
Read it here!
- Shannon and Allison publish review on optogenetics in microbial engineering!
Read it here!
- Avalos lab welcomes new graduate students!
Welcome to graduate students Max Elikan from Chemistry and Sarah Kwartler from Molecular Biology!
- Shannon wins ExxonMobil award for best graduate student poster at Andlinger annual retreat!
Congratulations, Shannon!
- José Avalos Promoted to Associate Professor!
Read the official announcement here!
- Shannon recipient of the 2022 Maeder Graduate Fellowship in Energy and the Environment!
Congratulations Shannon!
- Chris and Mack win the second annual Avalos Lab Citizenship Award!
Congratulations to both of these wonderful lab citizens!
- Shannon and Makoto’s method published in JOVE!
Read it here!
- Yanfei publishes paper on biosensor for branched-chain amino acid metabolism in Nature Communications!
You can read more about it here!
- The Avalos lab biosensor featured by the Princeton CBE Department!
You can read the article here!
- Avalos Lab Featured in Article on Optogenetic Co-cultures!
You can read the article here!
- Saurabh, Lukasz Bugaj, Brian Chow win multiple categories in iGEM 2021!
Team UPenn was awarded the following prizes at iGEM 2021:
-Best Foundational Advance (Best in Track)
-Best Hardware (Best from All Ugrad Teams)
-Best Presentation (Best from All Ugrad Teams)
The team was also awarded Top 10 Overall (from All Ugrad Teams) and Top 10 Website (from All Ugrad Teams)! Congratulations to all involved! You can check out their work here!
- Saurabh, Lukasz Bugaj, Brian Chow nominated for iGEM 2021!
This UPenn based team was nominated for the iGEM top 10 overall project award, best hardware award, and awards in several other categories! Read more about their project here!
- Dolly and Taj-Jahnae Awarded the DuPont Senior Thesis Fellowship Grant!
Dolly and Taj-Jahnae have been awarded the DuPont Senior Thesis Fellowship Grant. Congratulations to our amazing undergraduates!
- Makoto’s Consortia paper is out in ACS Synthetic Biology!
Read it here!
- Scott and Jhong-Min’s mevalonate paper is out in Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology!
Read it here!
- Makoto’s Q System paper is out in ACS Synthetic Biology!
- Jose M. publishes a review on microbial metabolic engineering in Nature Reviews Microbiology!
Read more about it here!
- Lisset awarded an HHMI Gilliam Fellowship!
Lisset has been selected to receive an HHMI Gilliam Fellowships to support diversity in science. Congratulations, Lisset!
- Shannon and Maria’s paper on emulsions for rapid and efficient cellulosic biofuel production published in Biotechnology for Biofuels!
You can access the article here!
- Mack wins Top Poster Award at the International Metabolic Engineering Society meeting— ME14!
This award is sponsored by Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology. Congratulations, Mack!
- José awarded funding from the Dept. of Energy for chemical and biofuel research!
The award builds on preliminary data from research funded by Princeton Engineering’s Project-X.
- Congratulations to Dr. Makoto Lalwani for a successful FPO!
- Shannon and José win Walbridge Award!
Each year, a limited number of Ph.D. candidates are selected to receive this award for research related to energy, climate change science, modeling, and policy, or closely related topics. Congratulations to both Shannon and José!
- Avalos Lab welcomes new senior thesis students!
Welcome to CBE seniors Dolly Lampson-Stixrud and Taj-Jahnae Brailsford-Forde and Chemistry senior Aliza Haider!
- Shannon wins Outstanding Presenter Award at Princeton Research Day!
Congratulations, Shannon! You can watch the video on her project here!
- Tess wins Grad Impact Award at Princeton Research Day!
Congratulations to Tess – check out her video here!
- Evan’s OptoAMP paper is out in ACS Synthetic Biology!
Read it here!
- José featured by Princeton’s Forward Fest!
Watch his talk on the future of bioengineering here!
- Shannon and Makoto win the first annual Avalos Lab Citizenship Award!
Congratulations to both of these fantastic lab citizens!
- Robert’s paper on modeling optogenetic circuits published in ACS Synthetic Biology!
Read it here!
- Evan’s OptoAMP paper is up on bioRxiv!
Read it here!
- Evan’s paper on optogenetic circuits published in ACS Synthetic Biology!
Read it here!
- Rebecca, Jae Won, and Peter awarded the DuPont Senior Thesis Fellowship Grant!
Rebecca, Jae Won, and Peter have each been awarded the DuPont Senior Thesis Fellowship Grant in memory of Michelle Goudie. Congratulations to our amazing undergraduates!
- Tess’ review article featured in Advanced Science News!
Read more about it here!
- César publishes Current Opinion in Biotechnology!
Read more about it here!
- Makoto’s lac operon paper featured by Princeton!
Read more about it here!
- Avalos Lab welcomes new senior thesis students!
Welcome to CBE seniors Jae Won Oh and Peter Colvin, and welcome back to CBE senior Rebecca Mays!
- Avalos Lab welcomes new senior thesis students!
Welcome to CBE seniors Jae Won Oh and Peter Colvin, and welcome back to CBE senior Rebecca Mays!
- Jae Won selected as Reiner G. Stoll Undergraduate Summer Fellow!
Congratulations to Jae Won (’21) who was selected as the 2020 recipient of The Reiner G. Stoll Undergraduate Summer Fellowship in Chemical and Biological Engineering!
- Makoto’s lac operon paper published in Nature Chemical Biology!
Read the article here!
- José M. publishes News and Views article in Nature!
Read the article here!
- Lisset publishes review article on harnessing yeast mitochondria for chemical production!
Read the article here!
- César, Evan, and Agi’s optoMB paper featured by Princeton!
Read the news here!
- José M. wins ALPA award!
In recognition of his outstanding proposal, José has received project funding from the Association of Latino Princeton Alumni! Congratulations José!
- César, Evan, and Agi’s OptoMB paper published in Nature Communications!
Read the article here!
- Tess awarded NIH F30 fellowship from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences!
- Tess publishes review article on subcellular optogenetics!
Read the article here!
- Congrats to Jeremy and Tess for passing their generals and becoming Ph.D. Candidates!
- Sarah awarded Air Products Best Thesis Award!
- Congratulations to Dr. Sarah Hammer for a successful FPO!
- Avalos Lab welcomes new MOL graduate student Rachel Barocio!
- Alumnus Evan Zhao named a Schmidt Science Fellow!
- Alumnus Evan Zhao named a Schmidt Science Fellow!
Read more about it here!
- Yanfei’s biosensor paper is out on bioRxiv!
- Cesar’s and Evan’s light-controlled monobody paper is on bioRxiv!
- Sarah’s isopentanol paper is out!
You can read it here!
- Congrats to Shannon and Jose for passing their First Propositions and becoming Ph.D. Candidates!
- Avalos Lab welcomes CBE graduate students Saurabh Malani, Allison Tang, and Kevin (Ke) Xu!
- Alzo Wins Second Place in Annual Holiday Bake-Off!
Congratulations, Alzo! Your tropical Christmas pies were delicious!
- Congrats to Lisset for passing her generals and becoming a Ph.D. Candidate!
- Robert’s Grey-box modeling paper is out!
Read it here!
- Makoto’s optogenetic lac operon story is out on bioRxiv!
Read it here!
- Sarah’s collaborative paper with Dr. Kuroda on isobutanol tolerance is out!
Read it here!
- Yanfei’s xylose paper is out!
Read it here!
- Avalos Lab welcomes back MD/PhD student Tess Kichuk!
- Makoto wins Walbridge award!
- Hinako wins Michelle Goudie ’93 Senior Thesis Award!
This award is presented for outstanding senior thesis research related to energy and the environment. Congratulations to Hinako!
- Evan’s clustering paper published in Nature Chemical Biology!
Read it here!
- Congratulations to Dr. Evan Zhao on his new PhD!
- Jose Avalos recognized as a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar!
- Sarah Hammer awarded Harold W. Dodds Fellowship!
The Dodds Fellowship is one of several honorific fellowships that “recognize the performance and professional promise of graduate students in their later years of a Ph.D. program.” Congratulations to Sarah for winning this prestigious honor!
- Sarah Hammer wins P.E.O. Scholar Award!
Congratulations to Sarah, who was one out of 150 women from the United States and Canada selected to receive this award!
- Avalos lab welcomes new graduate students!
Welcome to CBE graduate students Shannon Hoffman and José Montaño López – we are excited to have you!
- Scott Wegner becomes a PhD Candidate!
Congrats to Scott, who successfully passed his general examinations!
- Avalos Lab welcomes new graduate student!
We are excited to welcome MOL graduate student Jeremy Cortez as a new member of our lab!
- Avalos Lab welcomes new rotation students!
Welcome to CBE first year rotation students Shannon Hoffman, Alex Johnson, and Yejoon Seo!
- Sarah Hammer awarded Walbridge Fund!
Each year, 2-3 Ph.D. candidates are selected to receive this award for research related to energy, climate change science, modeling, and policy, or closely related topics. Congratulations to Sarah!
- Makoto Lalwani wins poster award at ME12 conference!
Congrats to Makoto, who won one of 6 Runner-Up awards in the poster competition at the Metabolic Engineering 12 conference in Munich!
- Jose Avalos wins DOE award for biofuels advances!
Read more about it here!
- Samantha Ip wins SABIC Senior Thesis Award!
Congratulations to Sam, who was recognized for her excellent senior thesis research!
- Avalos Lab welcomes new summer students!
We extend a warm welcome to Nathan Alam (Class of 2021), Hinako Kawabe (Class of 2019; recipient of a Reiner G. Stoll Summer Fellowship), Olivia Parker (Class of 2019), and Saira Reyes (Class of 2021)!
- Class of 2018 graduates!
Congratulations to Douglas Diehl, Samantha Ip (pursuing an M.D. at Johns Hopkins University in the fall), Nicole Neville (working as an analyst at Sherpa Technology Group), and Lucinda Pastora (pursuing a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at Vanderbilt University in the fall).
Best of luck in your futures; we will miss you all!
- Evan Zhao named Maeder Graduate Fellow!
Read more about it here!
- Jose Avalos recognized as a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar!
Read more about it here!
- José Avalos receives NSF CAREER Award!
- Evan’s paper is highlighted by Nature Chemical Biology!
Read more about it here!
- Mack Walls awarded NSF GRFP!
Congratulations to Mack, who was selected as one of 2,000 recipients of the award nationwide!
- Avalos Lab welcomes new graduate student!
Welcome to Scott Wegner from the Molecular Biology department, who is joining us permanently following his rotation!
- Makoto Lalwani publishes review article on modalities of dynamic control in metabolic engineering!
Read more about it here!
- Evan’s research featured by Chemistry World!
Read more about it here!
- Evan Zhao publishes journal article in Nature!
Read more about it here!
- Chris Gonzalez, Makoto Lalwani, and Mack Walls become PhD candidates!
Congratulations to all three, who successfully passed their First Proposition exams!
- Sarah Hammer publishes journal article in Metabolic Engineering!
- Avalos Lab welcomes senior thesis, rotation students!
Welcome to CBE seniors Douglas Diehl, Nicole Neville, and Lucinda Pastora, as well as MOL rotation student Connor Jankowski!
- Sarah Hammer wins Carol D. Litchfield Award!
This award is given to the student with the best oral presentation at the Society for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology (SIMB) annual conference. Congratulations to Sarah!
- Sarah Hammer publishes review article on organelle compartmentalization for yeast metabolic engineering!
Read more about it here!
- Avalos Lab welcomes new postdoc!
Welcome to our new postdoc, Cesar Carrasco-Lopez!
- Sergio Garcia Echauri wins Postdoctoral Fellowship Award from CONACYT-Mexico!
Congratulations to Sergio!
- José Avalos selected as a 2017 Pew Scholar!
Read more about it here!
