News

  • 11 September 2018Ruhi successfully completes her MASc bypass exam to become a PhD student. Congratulations Ruhi!
  • 1 September 2018We have a truckload of students joining us this fall. Welcome new graduate students - Dafni, Mauricio, Kavya, Leo, Chester, Alex, Olivia and Sheida.
  • 29 August 2018Kayla successfully completes her PhD defence. Congratulations Dr. Nemr.
  • 25 May 2018Naveen successfully defends his dissertation at his PhD oral examination. Congratulations to Dr. Naveen Venayak!
  • 9 May 2018: Kayla's article about Engineering an aldolase based pathway for 1,3-butanediol production in E. coli was published in the journal Metabolic Engineering. Check it out here.
  • 1 May 2018: LMSE welcomes Dr. Yilan Liu - a new research associate and Andrew Jo - a new research assistant.
  • 6 April 2018: Scott successfully bypasses into the Ph.D. program. Congratulations Scott!
  • 1 March 2018Dr. Alessandra Biz joins us as a research associate. Welcome Alessandra!
  • 10 February 2018: Kaushik's work on the production of adipic acid in yeast was published in the journal Metabolic Engineering Communications. Check it out here.
  • 26 January 2018: Masood successfully defends his dissertation at his final oral examination. Congrats Dr. Khaksar!
  • 22 December 2017 : Kevin's preprint on Reconstructing the Evolution of Metabolism in Budding Yeasts is now available on biorxiv. Check it out here.
  • 6 December 2017 : Shyam's article about Model Based Design of Bistable Cell Factories for Metabolic Engineering was published in the journal Bioinformatics. Check it out here.
  • 6 December 2017 : The Mahadevan lab's research on biosynthesis of adipic acid was recently featured in the Sarnia ObserverSarnia Journal, Blackburn News and UofT Engineering News.
  • 25 September 2017 : Vik successfully defends his dissertation at his final oral examination. Congratulations to Dr. Aditya Vik Pandit!
  • 25 September 2017 : Prof. Mattheos Koffas of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute delivers a special lecture for BioZone entitled "Sensitive cells: enabling tools for static and dynamic control of metabolic pathways". Click here for the abstract.
  • 1 September 2017 : LMSE welcomes Ruhi Choudhary, Graham Mantay and Zhiqing(Paul) Xu - new graduate students starting in Fall 2017.
  • 28 July 2017 : Naveen gives a talk titled "Identifying optimal metabolic nodes and intervention strategies for dynamically controlled microorganisms using two stage minimal cut sets" at the Metabolic Pathway Analysis Conference 2017 in Bozeman, MT, USA. Click here for the Abstract.
  • 18 July 2017 : Krishna wins the Biochemical Engineering Journal's Young Investigator Award for 2017 at the Biochemical and Molecular Engineering Conference 2017 in Newport Beach, CA, USA. Click here to read more.
  • 18 July 2017 : Taeho presents a poster titled "Structural and Biochemical Studies of Novel Aldo-Keto Reductases (AKRs) for the Biocatalytic Conversion of 3-HydroxyButanal to 1,3- Butanediol" at the Biochemical and Molecular Engineering Conference 2017 in Newport Beach, CA, USA. Click here for the Abstract.
  • 17 July 2017 : Kaushik presents a poster titled "Complete Biosynthesis of Adipic Acid in Saccharomyces cerevisiae" at the Biochemical and Molecular Engineering Conference 2017 in Newport Beach, CA, USA. Click here for the Abstract.
  • 1 July 2017 : Happy Canada Day from all of us at LMSE!