by Benjamin | Aug 10, 2023 | Announcements, Research
Published today in Nature Microbiology, the last paper from Dr. Woolston’s time in the Balskus lab reports the discovery and characterization of bacterial amylases that enable degradation of glycogen by vaginal microbes. The human vaginal microbiota is...
by Guanyu | Jun 6, 2022 | Announcements
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 Woolston, COE,...
by Guanyu | May 6, 2022 | Announcements
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.
by Guanyu | Mar 8, 2022 | Announcements
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 and suggest...
by Guanyu | Feb 22, 2022 | Announcements
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 well-established platform, 13C...
by Guanyu | Feb 3, 2022 | Announcements
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 engineered strain or a...
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