Welcome to the website for the Woolston Lab.
We are located in Boston, MA at Northeastern University. Our research is focused on metabolic engineering and synthetic biology for sustainable biochemical production and human health.
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Three Undergraduate Researchers from Woolston lab win PEAK Experiences Awards, congratulations to you
Congratulations to Dhruv Jatkar, Katherine Miller and Shanthi Hegde for winning a summer 2022 PEAK Experiences Award for their project. ASCENT AWARDS Dhruv Jatkar, “Elucidating and Visualizing Interactions in Microbial Communities” Mentor: Benjamin...
Congratulations to Katie Hoyt for a successful PhD proposal and advancing to candidacy
Katie Hoyt finished her PhD proposal Investigating the metabolic flexibility of Eubacterium limosumto improve methanol utilization very successfully. The committee members praised her work and agreed to let her advance to PhD candidacy.
Congratulations to Dr. Woolston for his new publication
Dr. Woolston published his work, Cysteine dependence of Lactobacillus iners is a potential therapeutic target for vaginal microbiota modulation, in Nature Microbiology. The findings in this work "enable a better understanding of L. iners biology...
Congratulations to Katie Hoyt for her first publication in Woolston Lab
Katie Hoyt published a review, Adapting isotopic tracer and metabolic flux analysis approaches to study C1 metabolism in Current Opinion in Biotechnology, which is her first publication in the Woolston lab. This review talked about a...
Congratulations to Patrick Sanford for his first publication in Woolston Lab
Patrick Sanford published his first review, Synthetic or natural? Metabolic engineering for assimilation and valorization of methanol in Current Opinion in Biotechnology. This review discussed the question of "whether it is best to use an...
