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News

July 2026: Farewell and best wishes to James, who is moving onto a Senior Scientist I position at AbbVie!

June 2026: Hannah is selected as a trainee for the Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program! Congratulations!

June 2026: Emily is selected as a Biotechnology Training Program trainee! Congratulations!

May 2026: Huge congratulations to Dr. Andon for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis!

May 2026: A preprint of James and Abhijit’s work on the continuous evolution of ncAA synthases is available on bioRxiv!

April 2026: Jane has successfully defended her thesis! Congrats, Dr. Archer!

May 2026: Mike and Brian’s paper on selecting for Aβ oligomer binders using SICLOPPS libraries is published in ChemBioChem!

February 2026: Tina is selected as a 2026 Sloan Research Fellow!

January 2026: James’s study on the evolutionary dynamics of declining populations, a collaborative effort with the Dill group at Stonybrook, is published in PNAS!

January 2026: Jackson and Mike’s work on high-throughput detection of cyanobacteria Rubisco assembly is out in ACS Synthetic Biology!

December 2025: A warm welcome to Emily Boyt and Hannah Meyers, our newest graduate students!

September 2025: Siyu, Mike, and Nick’s work on changing the selectivity of plant Rubisco chaperones through directed evolution is published in PNAS!

September 2025: Mike has successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis! Congratulations, Dr. Lee!

August 2025: Linwei Yang has received a PPG travel grant! Congratulations, Linwei!

July 2025: Mike’s work on discovering conformationally selective binders to amyloid-β oligomers is in press at Nature Chemical Biology!

March 2025: Jack, Mahak, Mike, and Siyu’s work on investigating the selectivity of plant Rubisco chaperones is published in the Journal of Experimental Botany!

January 2025: Linwei and James’s work on the continuous selection of cyclic peptides is in press at Nature Chemical Biology!

January 2025: Brian Flood joins the group! Welcome, Brian!