News

Avalos Lab Featured in Article on Optogenetic Co-cultures!
Dec. 15, 2021
You can read the article here!
Saurabh, Lukasz Bugaj, Brian Chow win multiple categories in iGEM 2021!
Nov. 15, 2021

Team UPenn was awarded the following prizes at iGEM 2021:

-Best Foundational Advance (Best in Track)

-Best Hardware (Best from All Ugrad Teams)

-Best Presentation (Best from All Ugrad Teams)

The team was also awarded Top 10 Overall (from All Ugrad Teams) and Top 10 Website (from…

Saurabh, Lukasz Bugaj, Brian Chow nominated for iGEM 2021!
Nov. 11, 2021
This UPenn based team was nominated for the iGEM top 10 overall project award, best hardware award, and awards in several other categories! Read more about their project here!
Dolly and Taj-Jahnae Awarded the DuPont Senior Thesis Fellowship Grant!
Oct. 22, 2021
Dolly and Taj-Jahnae have been awarded the DuPont Senior Thesis Fellowship Grant. Congratulations to our amazing undergraduates!
Lisset awarded an HHMI Gilliam Fellowship!
July 22, 2021
Lisset has been selected to recieve an HHMI Gilliam Fellowships to support diversity in science. Congratulations, Lisset!
Mack wins Top Poster Award at the International Metabolic Engineering Society meeting— ME14!
July 15, 2021
This award is sponsored by Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology. Congratulations, Mack!
José awarded funding from the Dept. of Energy for chemical and biofuel research!
July 9, 2021
The award builds on preliminary data from research funded by Princeton Engineering’s Project-X.
Shannon and José win Walbridge Award!
June 10, 2021
Each year, a limited number of Ph.D. candidates are selected to receive this award for research related to energy, climate change science, modeling, and policy, or closely related topics. Congratulations to both Shannon and José!
Avalos Lab welcomes new senior thesis students!
June 1, 2021
Welcome to CBE seniors Dolly Lampson-Stixrud and Taj-Jahnae Brailsford-Forde and Chemistry senior Aliza Haider!