News & Updates

Excited to see our work on constructing and optimizing a genetic-code-engineered Escherichia coli genome published today in Nature Communications. This is a step toward building safer cellular technologies. Constructing a 57-codon Escherichia coli genome (now in six strains) turned out to be much more challenging than simply redesigning DNA sequences and assembling them. Throughout the project, we found that genome recoding affected gene expression at multiple levels. We iden

I was awarded the second prize at the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center Symposium 2026 in Boston for my poster and short talk presentation titled "Biosynthesis of non-standard amino acids with AI" (poster #24). Thank you very much to the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center for the opportunity to present my research and for this recognition! And thank you to my collaborators, including Peter G Mikhael and Itamar Chinn, and to our mentors, George Church, Regina Barzilay, and Gregory Ste

I attended the Biological Systems Science Division (BSSD) 2026 Annual Principal Investigator (PI) Meeting from the USA Department of Energy (DOE) in Washington DC from February 23 to 25 (https://www.orau.gov/2026bssdpimtg)! I presented a poster (#124) entitled "Biosynthesis of non-standard amino acids with AI" within the Artificial Intelligence subsection.

I am looking forward to meeting you at the Biological Systems Science Division (BSSD) 2025 Annual Principal Investigator (PI) Meeting ...

Join us at the Wyss Retreat https://wyss.harvard.edu/retreat/ on April 11, 2025! I will be giving a talk on " AI, New Amino Acids, and...

I am co-developing a session on “Genetically Modified Microbes in Complex Environmental Microbiomes” for the 7th International Symposium...

I am super happy to participate as a panelist at the AIChE WIC Breakfast networking session on “Holistic Mentorship: Getting what you...

I am beyond thankful and honored to have been nominated and selected as a 2024 Rising Star in Biological Engineering at Princeton (...

I will give a talk at the Faculty Candidate Session: Food, Pharmaceuticals, and Bioengineering II of the 2024 AIChE Annual Meeting. ...

I was awarded the 2024 Genetics Society of America DeLill Nasser Award for Professional Development! In memory of DeLill Nasser, this...

On the 19th of July 2024, I presented my project on "preventing escape and malfunction of recoded cells due to tRNA base changes" in the...