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Jan 2021: The Zhang lab website has been moved to a new address: https://sites.wustl.edu/fuzhongzhanglab/ This page will not be updated.
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Jun 2020: Eugene has successfully defended his PhD thesis titled "Bio-Directed Synthesis of High Performance Mussel-Based Protein Adhesives and Composites". He has accepted an offer from the George Mason University as an Assistant Profossor in Bioengineering. Congratulations, Dr. Kim!
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Feb 2020: 2020 has been a productive year for us. Po-cheng's paper was published in Scientific Reports, Yichao's paper was published in PLoS Computational Biology, and Chris Hartline's paper was published in mBio. Congratulations, gentlemen!
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Dec 2019: Juya Jeon and Xinyuan Chang join our lab as new Ph.D. students. Welcome, Juya and Xinyuan!
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Nov 2019: Chris Bowen's paper was published in ACS Synthetic Biology Congratulations, Chris!
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Oct 2019: Dr. Trent Evans officially joins the Zhang Lab as a postdoc. Welcome, Trent!
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Sept 2019: Chris B. successfully defended his PhD thesis titled "A Platform for Microbial Production of Ultra-High Molecular Weight Protein-Based Materials". Congratulations, Dr. Bowen!
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Sept 2019: Yichao was awarded the NIH T32 grant as part of the Genome Analysis Training Program (GATP). Congrats, Yichao!
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Aug 2019: Congratulations to Dr. Zhang for receiving the prestigious NIH MIRA Award to study metabolite heterogeneity in bacteria!
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Jul 2019: Wenqin's paper was published in Nature Communications for her work on using synthetic biology to enable protein origami. Congratulations, Wenqin!
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Jul 2019: Our lab welcomes 6 selected high school students from the Greater St. Louis metro area this summer! They will be participating in a one-week long Lab Research Experience, funded by NSF, learning about molecular cloning and cell cultivation techniques. Check out the photos on our Outreach page.
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Apr 2019: Po-Cheng successfully defended his PhD thesis titled "Metabolic Engineering of Cyanobacteria for Production of Chemicals". Congratulations, Dr. Lin!
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Apr 2019: Bin's paper was published in Biomacromolecules. Congratulations, Bin!
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Dec 2018: Jingyao officially joined the lab as a PhD candidate. Xiaohui also joins us as a visiting scholar & postdoc. Welcome, Jingyao & Xiaohui!
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Nov 2018: Eugene's paper was published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. Congratulations, Eugene!
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Nov 2018: Shaojie finished his study in the Zhang Lab and retured to his home school for his PhD defense. Wish him all the best!
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Aug 2018: Chris and Bin's paper was published in Biomacromolecules. Congratulations, Chris and Bin!
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Jul 2018: Cameron was awarded a NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship (NSTRF). Congratulations, Cameron!
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June 2018: Zhang Lab Alum Yi published his work in Biotechnology and Bioengineering. Congratulations, Yi!
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May 2018: Zhang Lab Alums Linda and Carlos published their work in Microbial Cell Factories. Congratulations, Linda and Carlos!
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May 2018: Wen successfully defended her PhD thesis titled "Exploring Fatty Acid Metabolism for the Biosynthesis of Non-Natural Chemicals". Congratulations, Dr. Jiang!
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Mar 2018: Weitao Geng officially joined the Zhang Lab as a visitor scholar. Welcome!
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Jan 2018: Di's paper was published in ACS Synthetic Biology. Congratulations, Di!
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Dec 2017: Po-Cheng's paper was published in Scientific Reports. Congratulations, Po-Cheng!
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Dec 2017: Yichao Han officially joined the Zhang Lab as a graduate student. Welcome!
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Nov 2017: Shaojie Wang joins the Zhang Lab as a visiting graduate student. Welcome!
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Nov 2017: Andi successfully defended her PhD thesis titled "Transcriptional Regulatory Elements in the Bidirectional Promoter Region of Cyanothece 51142 Nif Cluster". Congratulations, Dr. Balassy!
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Jul 2017: Dr. Zhang became an Associate Professor. Thanks to the Zhang Lab members for their hard work in the past years.
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Jun 2017: Like last year, we held a one-week Lab Research Experience in basic molecular cloning and cell cultivation techniques for 5 selected high school students, and again, it was a success!
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May 2017: Di successfully defended her PhD thesis titled "Design of metabolite biosensors and engineering genetic cIrcuits to regulate metabolic pathways". Congratulations, Dr. Liu!
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Apr 2017: Eugene received the 2017 Graduate Student Teaching Assistant Award. Congrats, Eugene!
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Feb 2017: Alex was awarded as a trainee of the NIH Genome Analysis Training Program. Congrats!
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Dec 2016: Chris Hartline officially joined the Zhang Lab as a graduate student. Welcome!
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Nov 2016: Dr. Wenqin Bai joined the group as a visiting postdoctoral scholar. Welcome! Drs. Yi Xiao, Jie Sun, and Gayle Bentley are starting new positions as a Faculty Member at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Postdoctoral Scholar at the Washington University School of Medicine, and Research Scientist at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, respectively. Congratulations to the three of you!
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Nov 3, 2016: Gayle Bentley has successfully defended her thesis entitled "Engineering Escherichia coli towards the production of branched-chain advanced biofuels". Congratulations, Dr. Bentley!
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Oct 2016: Dr. Sangyoung Yoon started his new position at CJ Corp in South Korea. Congrats and best of luck!
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Jul 2016: Gayle's paper was published in Metabolic Engineering, titled with "Engineering Escherichia coli to produce branched-chain fatty acids in high percentages". Congratulations!
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Jul 2016: Dr. Bin Dai joined the group as a visiting postdoctoral scholar. Welcome!
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Jul 2016: We held a one-week Lab Research Experience in basic molecular cloning and cell cultivation techniques for 5 selected high school students.
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Jul 2016: Linda Guaman and Dr. Carlos Barba returned/went to Sao Paolo University to finish her graduate studies and start his new position as a postdoctoral associate, respectively. Best of luck!
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Jun 2016: We held a "Hot Topics in Synthetic Biology" workshop open to local public high school teachers.
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Apr 2016: Cameron Sargent officially joined the Zhang Lab as a graduate student. Welcome!
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Apr 2016: Dr. Zhang received the Dean's Faculty Award for Innovation in Research.
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Mar 2016: Yi, Chris, and Di's paper was published on Nature Chemical Biology, titled with "Exploiting nongenetic cell-to-cell variation for enhanced biosynthesis". This work was also featured in the Department News! Congratulations!
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Jan 2016: Dr. Zhang received the 2016 B&B Daniel I.C. Wang Award!
