Professor Radhakrishnan Mahadevan has been awarded the Jay Bailey Young Investigator Best Paper Award. The award recognizes young researchers who have made outstanding advancements in the field of metabolic engineering who have published in the journal Metabolic Engineering. [Read More]

Pratish Gawand, a PhD student supervised by Professor Krishna Mahadevan, won the Biotechnology and Bioengineering Poster Award at the Metabolic Engineering conference held in Korea from June 13-18, 2010. The poster was entitled “Metabolic engineering strategies for substrate coutilization in Escherichia coli,” and was one of 150 presented at the conference. Gawand’s research focuses on improving the sugar uptake in industrial organisms such as Escherichia coli and Saccharomyces cerevisiae by using genome scale models to identify strategies to develop such organism through genetic engineering.

Yang Wins Best Presentation at American Control Conference
PhD candidate Laurence Yang has won the Best Presentation in Systems Analysis in Biology and Medicine at the American Control Conference. Yang, who is co-supervised by Professors Krishna Mahadevan and Will Cluett, was recognized for his presentation entitled “Designing Experiments from Noisy Metabolomics Data to Refine Constraint-Based Models.” Yang’s research focuses on developing computational algorithms based on nonlinear optimization and random sampling in order to design microbial strains and refine models used for metabolic engineering and systems biology. The conference was held in Baltimore, Maryland from June 30 to July 2.