Jun. 2, 2025 – Lois successfully defended his thesis! Congratulations, Dr. Gordils-Valentin!
May 12, 2025 – Congratulations to Smit for passing the qualifying exam!
May 10, 2025 – Congratulations to Faye on the graduation. Wish you all the best at AbbVie!
Feb. 3, 2025 – Faye successfully defended her thesis! Congratulations, Dr. Ouyang!
Dec. 18, 2024 – Join us in congratulating Huanrong Ouyang, this year’s recipient of the prestigious Brunner Barnes Graduate Fellowship!
Feb. 20, 2024 – Dr. Zhu has been awarded the Dean of Engineering Excellence Award (Assistant Professor Level).
Jan. 31, 2024 – Faye passed the prelim exam. Congratulations!
Jan. 13, 2024 – Congratulations to Arella for passing the qualifying exam!
Aug. 16, 2023 – Arella (Xuanzi) joined the group!
Aug. 12, 2023 – Congratulations to Liangyu on the graduation. Wish you all the best in ORNL!
June 6, 2023 – Liangyu successfully defended her thesis! Congratulations, Dr. Qian!
April 4, 2023 – Dr. Zhu is being recognized at the 2023 Faculty Awards Banquet for an Engineering Genesis Award.
Mar. 28, 2023 – Liangyu and Faye presented posters in ACS Spring meeting in Indianapolis. Fun!
Mar. 25, 2023 – Dr. Zhu served as a judge for the 2023 Texas Science & Engineering Fair. So impressed with the young generation’s passion for microbiology research!
Dec. 16, 2022 – Dr. Zhu was awarded the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering the Outstanding Junior Faculty Award.
Dec, 2022 – Congratulations to Joju on the graduation! Best of luck on your new beginnings at Intel!
Aug, 2022 – Congratulations to Joshua for starting a new job in Sandia National Laboratories. Wish you all the best!
July 1, 2022 – Our lab has been awarded Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) from NIGMS! Thanks for the support! News
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Mar. 21 and 31, 2022 – Liangyu gave an oral presentation virtually in ACS national meeting on Mar. 21, and another presentation in TAMU CheGSA symposium on Mar. 31.
Feb. 12, 2022 – Lois presented his poster at Texas A&M University’s 2nd Life Sciences Graduate Recruitment Symposium.
Oct. 1, 2021 – We are part of the team who received a $2M grant from the National Science Foundation to develop synthetic biology strategies to degrade plastic waste with microorganisms. Thanks to Dr. Arum Han for leading this effort, all the team members and NSF for this opportunity! Article. News.
Aug 8-11, 2021-Faye and Xuejun attended SIMB 2021 in Austin. Faye presented her poster.
Jul. 6, 2021 -We had our first group dinner after pandemic. It was fun!
May 17, 2021-Faye passed her qualifying exam. Congratulations!
Apr. 15, 2021 –Jeshua will start his graduate school in Baylor College of Medicine in August. Wish you all the best!
Mar. 8, 2021 –Our master student, Joju joined the group!
Jan. 3, 2021 –Lois joined the group!
Oct. 1, 2020 –Liangyu joined the group. Welcome!
Sep. 28, 2020 –Benjamin Thomas started his rotation in the lab. Welcome!
Sep. 25, 2020 –Our lab space expanded. Now we have two rooms. Hooray! Big thanks to the Department of Chemical Engineering.
Aug. 31, 2020 –Lois started his first rotation in the lab. Welcome!
May 14, 2020 –Dr. Zhu joined the Faculty of Genetics at TAMU.
Jan. 13, 2020 –Our first graduate student Faye (Huanrong) and undergraduates Jeshua and Joshua joined the group. Welcome!