Dec 2015: Chris' paper was accepted by ACS Synthetic Biology. Congratulations!

Dec 2015: Eugene Kim and Alexander Schmitz officially joined the Zhang Lab as graduate students, and Dr. Jie Sun joined the group as a postdoctoral scholar and lab manager. Welcome!

Oct 2015: Dr. Zhang, Chris, and Eugene were interviewed for PLOS Synbio blog about the lab's recent NASA grant. See here for the blog post and interview.

Aug 2015: Dr. Zhang received the prestigious Early Career Faculty Award from NASA. We are dedicated to develop synthetic biology technologies of cyanobacteria for space exploration purposes. Also check the following news: PR Newswire & SEAS.

Jul 2015: Di's review paper was published in Metabolic Engineering with the title "Applications and advances of metabolite biosensors for metabolic engineering".

Jul 2015: our work in advanced biofuels has been featured on HEC TV.

Jun 2015: the Zhang Lab organized a worshop “Hot Topics in Synthetic Biology”. We thank all the K-12 teacher participants. We also thank NSF for funding and the Institute for School Partnership at WUSTL for assistant.

May 2015: We welcome three undergraduate students joining the lab this summer: Jeff Bonin, David Ayeke, and Charlotte Bourg.

May 2015: Dr. Zhang received the prestigious ONR Young Investigator Program award!

Apr 2015: Jimmy Qiao received a Summer Undergraduate Research Award from Washington University. He will continue his work in the lab this summer. Congratulations Jimmy!

Apr 2015: Dr. Zhang received the prestigious Young Invistigators Award from the Human Frontier Science Program Organization (HFSP)! We are collaborating with Dr. Diego Oyarzún from the Imperial College London to perform synthetic biology research.

Mar 2015: our students have received several departmental awards: Chris Bowen received the 2015 Graduate Student Teaching Award, Daniel Moynihan received the EECE Academic Achievement Senior Award, and Anna Kogler received the Klemm Outstanding Junior Award. Let's congratulate them!

Mar 2015: Wen's paper was accepted by Biotechnol Bioeng, congratulations!

Feb 2015: Dr. Zhang received the prestigious AFOSR Young Investigator Program award!

Feb 2015: Dr. Zhang published an editorial and edited a special issue titled "Circuits in Metabolic Engineering" on ACS Synthetic Biology.

Dec 2014: Dr. Zhang received the prestigious NSF CAREER Award.

Nov 2014: Our work was highlighted in FOX 2 NEWS.

Sept 2014: Gayle presented a poster at the DARPA meeting in Washington DC with the title of "Expanding the biosynthetic capability of E. coli to produce branched-chain fatty acids".

Sept 2014: Di gave a talk at the SynBERC meeting in Boston with the title of "Engineering metabolic control circuits to improve fatty acid production".

Sept 2014: Gayle presented a poster at the Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis Retreat with the title of "Towards microbial production of isooctane".

Aug 2014: Yu has successfully defended his master thesis. Congratulations to his graduation!

Jul 2014: Di has presented a poster at the SIMB Annual Meeting with the title "Negative feedback regulation of fatty acid production based on a malonyl-CoA sensor-actuator".

Jul 2014: Dr. Kenneth Wickiser from West Point visited our lab. His students Matthew McClenathan and Nahm-Doug Kim will spend two weeks in our lab learning our technology, welcome!

Jun 2014: Dr. Yanfang Jiang started her new position as a scientist in Monsanto Co. Wish her the best in her career!

Apr 2014: Po-Cheng has officially joined the lab as a graduate student. He will be co-advised by Prof. Pakrasi and Prof. Zhang. Welcome!

Feb 2014: Di has successfully defended her PhD proposal and presented a poster in the Spring SynBERC retreat.

Jan 2014: Po-Cheng Lin and Carlos Barba joined the lab. Welcome!

Dec 2013: Di's first research paper was accepted for publication by ACS Synthetic Biology. Congratulations Di, your hard work paid off!