October 2024, Our undergrads, Elizabeth and Jun represented the group to present at the 2024 AIChE Annual Meeting in San Diego. Jun also won 1st place at the poster competition for Food, Pharma, and Biotech. Congrats Jun!
October 2024, Harini gave a talk and Soor won the award for best poster at the 6th Annual MANA conference. Congratulations Soor!
September 2024, Shifeng, Karly, and Ziqi join StyGroup. Welcome to the lab!
August 2024, Meg won ChBE Ziegler Award for best paper: A modular cell-free protein biosensor platform using split T7 RNA polymerase. Congratulations Meg!!
June 2024, Julia joined the lab as a postdoc! Welcome Julia!!
May 2024, Lex and Yue gave research talks at the EBRC Annual Meeting on the Georgia Tech campus this year. The group had great fun during the conference. Also, inspired by the amazing lab logos at the conference, we gathered help from an AI logo generation website and the EBRC community to design one of our own:
May 2024, Congratulations to Anh on passing the ChBE qualifying exam!!
May 2024, Felicia passed her thesis proposal and has become an official Ph.D. candidate. Good job Felicia!!
May 2024, Yue won the first place poster presentation award at QSP Summit 2024 in Cambridge, MA. Great job!!
May 2024, The StyGroup undergrads are killing the PURA applications. Congratulations to Elizabeth, Emily, Regina, and Sasha on winning PURA!! Keep up the good work!
Apr 2024, Soor is absolutely rocking it this month. He was recognized as a Shell Outstanding Teaching Assistant and elected as the next AChEGS president at GT. Congratulations Soor!!
Apr 2024, Lex was the overall PhD winner in Georgia Tech’s annual Three Minute Thesis Competition. Great job and congratulations Lex!!
Apr 2024, Diya won second place in poster at the Georgia Innovation Competition. Great job Diya!!
Apr 2024, Congratulations to Hyunjun on winning PURA for Summer 2024!!
Mar 2024, Meg successfully defended her thesis titled ‘New platforms to expand the detection repertoire of cell-free biosensors’. Congratulations Dr. McSweeney!!
Feb 2024, Harini won first place in oral presentation at the ChBE Graduate Symposium. Great job Harini!!
Jan 2024, Sarah won first place at the poster competition for the KAUST gifted scholars program. Great job Sarah!!
Jan 2024, Congratulations to Soor on passing the ChBE qualifying exam!!
Jan 2024, Pablo, Emily, and Hyunjun joined the StyGroup as undergraduate researchers. Welcome!!
Dec 2023, Congratulations to our amazing undergrad researchers, Diya and Elizabeth, on winning the PURA award for Spring 2024! Keep up the good work!
Nov 2023, StyGroup undergrads rock! Diya won the 3rd place in the Food, Pharma & Biotechnology category at the 2023 AIChE Undergraduate Student Poster Competition, and Anu won the Donald F. & Mildrer Topp Othmer Scholarship Award. Congrats!!
Oct 2023, Jiho, Anh, and Soor joined the StyGroup as first-year graduate students! Welcome to the group!!
May 2023, Lex defended her thesis proposal and officially becomes a Ph.D. candidate. Good job Lex!
May 2023, Emily successfully passed her thesis proposal. Congrats Emily!
Apr 2023, Anuja joined the lab as a postdoc. She will be co-advised by Dr. Julie Champion. Welcome Anuja!!
Apr 2023, Meg has been selected to WiscProf – Future Faculty in Engineering Workshop. Good job Meg!!
Apr 2023, Fernanda successfully defended her thesis titled “Towards robust, point-of-care biosensing in cell-free systems”. Congratulations Dr. Piorino!!
Mar 2023, Thrilled to announce that Emily, Felicia, and our recent undergraduate alumnus Max have all received the NSF! Great job and congratulations to all!!
Mar 2023, Our lab alumnus Yan won the Sigma Xi Best Ph.D. Thesis Award!! Congrats!!
Mar 2023, Sasha won 3rd place in the poster competition at the 2023 AIChE Southern Region Conference. Congrats Sasha!!
Feb 2023, Fernanda won the poster competition at the 35th Annual ChBE Graduate Research Symposium. Nice work Fernanda!!
Feb 2023, Meg is a winner of the CRIDC poster competition. Great job Meg!!
Jan 2023, The Stylab got a new influx of undergraduate researchers. Sarah, Sai, Ryann, and Diya, welcome!
Jan 2023, Congratulations to Felicia on passing the ChBE qualifying exam!!
Nov 2022, Vidhya won 3rd place in the Food, Pharma & Biotechnology category at 2022 AIChE Undergraduate Student Poster Competition. She also won the 2021-2022 Outstanding Student Chapter Award for Georgia Tech. Good job Vidhya!
Oct 2022, Felicia Oentoro just joined StyLab as a first-year graduate student. She will be working on the biosensor project. Welcome to the group Felicia!!
Sept 2022, We are excited to announce that we started a lab twitter! Check out @stygroupGT
Sept 2022, Fernanda gave a talk at the 2022 National ChemE Future Faculty Seminar Series. Great work Fernanda!
Aug 2022, Elizabeth just joined the StyLab as an undergraduate researcher. She will be working with Harini on the metabolomics project. Welcome, Elizabeth!!
Aug 2022, Max won the President’s Undergraduate Research Awards (PURA) for Fall 2022! Great job!!
Aug 2022, Meg presented her work “The Orthogonality of Toehold Switch Activators and Repressors Using microRNA-length Triggers” at the ChBE 4th Year Colloquium. Great work, Meg!
Aug 2022, Harini passed her thesis proposal and officially became a Ph.D. candidate. Great job Harini!
Aug 2022, Meg is selected for the NextProf Nexus Workshop in Berkeley, CA this fall. Way to go, Meg!
Aug 2022, Fernanda and Lex’s review paper on “Low-Cost, Point-of-Care Biomarker Quantification” is out. Check it out here!
Jul 2022, Fernanda is selected for the Trailblazers in Engineering Workshop hosted by Purdue University this summer. Amazing work!
Jul 2022, Fernanda and Yan are selected for the MIT Chemical Engineering Rising Stars Workshop in Boston, MA this fall. Congratulations to both!
Jun 2022, Yan successfully defended her Thesis – “New Interfaces to Advance Point-of-Care Biosensor Diagnostics”. She will be joining Caltech as a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow this fall. Congratulations, Dr. Zhang!
Jun 2022, Harini and Fernanda’s review paper on “Systems Biology-based Analysis of Cell-Free Systems” is out. Check it out here.
May 2022, Inspired by our previous Protocell Array Biosensors collaboration with the Takayama Lab, we launched an in-depth study on Nucleic Acid Partitioning in PEG-Ficoll Protocells led by Tas and Yan. Check it out here.
May 2022, Meg gave a research talk at the 2022 EBRC annual meeting in Berkeley, CA.
Apr 2022, Shelbe wins the 2022 Helen Grenga outstanding woman engineering award. Great job Shelbe!!
Apr 2022, Fernanda presented at 3MT final among 10 finalists. Great job!!
Feb 2022, Meg and Fernanda are both recipients of the 2022 ChBE Fellowships! Congratulations!!
Jan 2022, Congrats to Yan on winning 2022 CRIDC poster award!! Great job!
Jan 2022, Emily just passed her qualifying exam! Congrats!!
Jan 2022, Anugeeth, Regina, and Sasha just joined the StyGroup as undergraduate researchers. Welcome!
Dec 2021, Yan is the 1st place winner of the 2022 Suddath Award. Congratulations!! She will give a presentation at the Suddath Symposium on Jan 13th, 2022.
Nov 2021, Shelbe won 2nd place in Food, Pharma & Biotechnology category at the 2021 AIChE Undergraduate Student Poster Competition. Good job!!
Sept 2021, Emily just joined our group as a graduate student! She will be working on the biosensor project. Welcome!!
Sept 2021, Shelbe is the student honoree of this year’s Diversity Champion Awards. Good job!!
Sept 2021, Rebecca won the George Wingfield Semmes Memorial Scholarship, which is awarded to one engineering undergraduate each year for outstanding leadership qualities and high academic achievement. Congrats!!
August 2021, Max, Shelbe, and Vidhya won the President’s Undergraduate Research Awards (PURA) for Fall 2021! Great job!!
July 2021, Justin, Britney, and Carlos’ paper, “SCOUR: a stepwise machine learning framework for predicting metabolite-dependent regulatory interactions” is now published in BMC Bioinformatics! Great work!!
June 2021, Max received prestigious Astronaut Scholarship! Congrats!!
May 2021, Justin successfully defended his thesis! Congratulations, Dr. Lee!!
May 2021, Mikaela passed her qualification exams! Great job!!
May 2021, Yue passed her thesis proposal! Amazing work!!
Apr 2021, Shelbe won first place in the College of Engineering in the poster competition at the GT Undergraduate Research Symposium! Congratulations!!
Apr 2021, April successfully defended her thesis! Congratulations, Dr. Miguez!!
Apr 2021, Megan won third place at the 3 Minute Thesis Competition and the People’s Choice Award! Great job!!
Apr 2021, Fernanda won the Shell Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award and Max won the ChBE Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award! Well done!!
Apr 2021, Congratulations to Shelbe for winning the AIChE Outstanding Undergraduate Course Assistant Award AND Outstanding ChBE Junior Award! Great job!!
Mar 2021, Lex and Paige win NSF Graduate Research Fellowships and Shruthi receives an Honorable Mention! Great job to all!!
Feb 2021, Hutson passes her qualification exams! Congratulations!!
Jan 2021, Harini passes her qualification exams! Congratulations!!
Jan 2021, Angela just joined the group as an undergrad. Welcome!
Sept 2020, The Stylab group has grown in size once again: Mikaela, Lex, and Harini are our newest graduate students and Brandon joins as an undergrad! Welcome!
May 2020, Megan and Fernanda both passed their thesis proposals! Great work!
May 2020, April won the Rapid Fire Thesis competition at the 7th annual BioE Day! Congratulations!
Apr 2020, Monica won a Student Award for Best PhD Thesis from Georgia Tech’s Sigma Xi Chapter! Great job!
Apr 2020, Megan won best poster at EBRC 2020 for her poster titled “Influence of Promoter Strength on Protein Production from Linear Templates in Cell-Free Expression Systems.” Outstanding work!
Apr 2020, Paige was awarded the Albemarle Corporation ChBE Scholarship! Congratulations!
Apr 2020, Monica won the Outstanding PhD Thesis Award in both the ChBE department and BioE program! Well done!
Mar 2020, Hutson wins an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and Megan receives an Honorable Mention! Congratulations to both!
Mar 2020, Rob and Justin’s paper, “LK-DFBA: a linear programming-based modeling strategy for capturing dynamics and metabolite-dependent regulation in metabolism” is now published in BMC Bioinformatics! Great job!
Feb 2020, Fernanda was one of the winners of the Shell ChBE Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award! Congratulations!
Jan 2020, Monica and Fernanda’s paper, “Active Analyte Import Improves the Dynamic Range and Sensitivity of a Vitamin B12 Biosensor” is now published in ACS Synthetic Biology! Congrats!
Jan 2020, Two undergraduate students, Shruthi and Rebecca, just joined the lab. Welcome!
Dec 2019, Monica’s paper “Dynamic and tunable metabolite control for robust minimal-equipment assessment of serum zinc” has been published in Nature Communications! Great job!
Oct 2019, Two of our undergrads, Max and Paige, won the President’s Undergraduate Research Award (PURA) for the upcoming spring semester. Congratulations!
Sept 2019, Stylab receives an influx of new people: Hutson and Yue as our newest graduate students and Britney and Shelbe as undergraduate researchers. Welcome!
Sept 2019, April and Monica’s paper, “Metabolic Profiling of Escherichia coli-based Cell-Free Expression Systems for Process Optimization” is now published in Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. This is our second successful collaboration between the synthetic biology world and metabolomics work in the lab. Congratulations!
Sept 2019, Monica and Yan recently published their paper, “Point-of-care biomarker quantification enabled by sample-specific calibration”, in Science Advances. Check it out here!
June 2019, Yan presents her work at Synthetic biology: Engineering, Evolution & Design (SEED) in New York, NY.
May 2019, Yan passes her thesis proposal. Congratulations!
May 2019, Matthew joins the lab as a summer undergraduate researcher (through SURE program). Welcome!
May 2019, Fernanda passes her qualifying exam. Congratulations!!
April 2019, Monica successfully defended her thesis and will be starting a postdoc position at Harvard Medical School this fall. Congratulations Dr. McNerney!
April 2019, The lab goes on an overnight retreat to Asheville, NC for hiking adventures and team bonding activities!
March 2019, Cirstyn wins first place in the regional AIChE conference in Mississippi! Congratulations!
February 2019, Monica gives the opening talk at Georgia Tech’s annual Suddath Symposium.
January 2019, Megan passes her qualifying exam. Congratulations!!
January 2019, April passes her thesis proposal. Congratulations!!
January 2019, Monica presents her work at ICBE in Newport Beach, California.
December 2018, Monica is announced as the winner of the 2018 Suddath award for graduate research.
December 2018, Justin passes his thesis proposal. Congratulations!!
November 2018, Justin’s paper, “NS-kNN: a modified k-nearest neighbors approach for imputing metabolomics data” is published in Metabolomics. Check it out here!
November 2018, Cirstyn wins a President’s Undergraduate Research Award for Spring 2019. Congratulations!
October 2018, Lambert iGEM dominates at the annual Jamboree! Lambert won four awards in the High School division for Best Measurement, Best Hardware, Best Integrated Human Practices, and Best Presentation AND won a gold medal. Congratulations!!
September 2018, Megan and Fernanda join the group as the newest StyLab graduate students. Welcome!
September 2018, Monica and Frank present their work at the Fall 2018 EBRC Retreat in Fort Collins, Colorado.
June 2018, April and Justin present their work at Metabolomics in Seattle
June 2018, The lab goes on an overnight yurting adventure for hiking, campfires, and team bonding.
June 2018, Monica presents her work at Engineering, Evolution & Design (SEED) in Phoenix, AZ.
May 2018, April’s paper, Metabolomics Analysis of the Toxic Effects of the Production of Lycopene and Its Precursors is published in Frontiers in Microbiology.
May 2018, Janet is named Lambert High School Teacher of the Year, and Lambert iGEM celebrates a year of ideas, science, and engineering at the annual iGEM banquet.
April 2018, Mark wins the a wins AIChE’s Outstanding Faculty Award. Congratulations!
April 2018, Yan receives Honorable Mention in the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Congratulations!
March 2018, Monica wins the Chih Foundation Graduate Research Award. Congratulations!
March 2018, Mark wins the Outstanding Bioengineering Advisor award, and Monica wins the Outstanding Bioengineering Paper award. Congratulations!
BioEngineering Graduate Program awards went to Mark Styczynski (Outstanding Advisor) and Monica McNerney (Outstanding Paper), flanked here by BioE Program Manager Laura Paige and program director Andrés J. García. Not pictured is Mahdi Hasani (Outstanding Thesis). pic.twitter.com/NkEe0agaTT
— Georgia Tech – IBB (@ibbgatech) March 9, 2018
January 2018, Yan, Jason, April, and Justin all pass their qualifying exams. Congratulations!
January 2018, Monica presents her work at ICBE Asia in Singapore.
January 2018, Frank Carellini joins the lab. Welcome!
December 2017, Development of a Pigment-Based Whole-Cell Zinc Biosensor for Human Serum is published in ACS Synthetic Biology.
December 2017, After starting in handcuffs, Wet Lab beats Dry Lab to solve Jigsaw’s puzzle and escape the room!
October 2017, Jason and Yan join the lab as chemical engineering PhD students. Welcome!
September 2017, Small molecule signaling, regulation, and potential applications in cellular therapeutics is published in Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews.
September, 2017, Integrative analysis associates monocytes with insufficient erythropoiesis during acute Plasmodium cynomolgi malaria in rhesus macaques is published in Malaria Journal
September 2017, Monica, Justin, and April present their work at the EBRC Fall Retreat.
August 2017, Daniel successfully defends his PhD thesis. Congratulations!
August 2017, Precise control of lycopene production to enable a fast-responding, minimal-equipment biosensor is published in Metabolic Engineering.
June 2017, Monica presents her work at the annual Synthetic Biology: Engineering, Evolution & Design (SEED) conference in Vancouver.
May 2017, Rob successfully defends his PhD thesis. Congratulations!
March 2017, Madelyn wins a President’s Undergraduate Research Award for Summer 2017. Congratulations!
December 2016, Monica successfully proposes her research. Congratulations!
December 2016, Maren joins the group as a postdoc. Welcome!
November 2016, Monica wins Georgia Tech’s Three Minute Thesis Competition. Congratulations!
November 2016, McKenzie successfully defends her PhD thesis. Congratulations!
October 2016, Caroline wins a President’s Undergraduate Research Award for Spring 2017. Congratulations!
October 2016, Francisco Novais joins as a visiting scholar from the University of São Paulo. Welcome!
September 2016, April and Justin join the lab as bioengineering PhD students. Welcome!
July 2016, Daniel and Monica present their work at the annual Synthetic Biology: Engineering, Evolution & Design (SEED) conference in Chicago.
April 2016, Adam wins the AIChE Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award at the ChBE Student Honors Luncheon. Congratulations!
April 2016, Kelsey wins first place in the Air Products ChBE Undergraduate Research Symposium. Congratulations!
April 2016, Manav leads team Memora Health to first place in the Advanced Track of Georgia Tech’s Ideas to Serve (I2S) competition. Congratulations!
April 2016, Mark, Monica, and Daniel participate in the NSF Innovation-Corps program to explore commercialization of a micronutrient biosensor.
March 2016, Monica wins the grand prize in the CRIDC poster competition AND first place in the CRIDC Innovation competition. Congratulations!
January 2016, Yan joins the lab as a postdoc.
January 2016, A Multi-Modality CMOS Sensor Array for Cell-Based Assay and Drug Screening is published in IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems.
December 2015, Kelsey wins a President’s Undergraduate Research Award for Spring 2016. Congratulations!
December 2015, From genome-scale data to models of infectious disease: A Bayesian network-based strategy to drive model development is published in Mathematical Biosciences.
December 2015, Janet wins the Biotechnology Teacher of the Year award from Georgia Bio. Congratulations!
November 2015, Manipulation of metabolism in complex eukaryotic systems to control cellular state is published in Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering.
September 2015, Research on the development of novel diagnostics is highlighted in RSC’s Chemistry World.
September 2015, Precision metabolic engineering: The design of responsive, selective, and controllable metabolic systems is published in Metabolic Engineering.
September 2015, Precise metabolic engineering of carotenoid biosynthesis in Escherichia coli towards a low-cost biosensor is published in Metabolic Engineering.
September 2015, Rob’s paper and Sugantha’s paper are each named “Hot Articles” in Molecular Biosystems.
September 2015, Sugantha’s paper is featured on the cover of Molecular Biosystems.
September 2015, Improved metabolite profile smoothing for flux estimation is published in Molecular Biosystems.
September 2015, Metabolomics identifies the intersection of phosphoethanolamine with menaquinone-triggered apoptosis in an in vitro model of leukemia is published in Molecular Biosystems.
August 2015, A tree-like Bayesian structure learning algorithm for small-sample datasets from complex biological model systems is published in BMC Systems Biology.
June 2015, Mark helps lead the inaugural meeting of the North American chapter of the Metabolomics Society.
June 2015, The Styczynski Lab moves to the brand new Engineering Biosystems Building.
April 2015, Monica wins the GT AIChE Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.
March 2015, Monica wins an NSF graduate research fellowship. Congratulations!
February 2015, OVCAR-3 spheroid-derived cells display distinct metabolic profiles is published in PLoS One.
February 2015, Katie’s paper in BMC Systems Biology named highly accessed.
January 2015, Monica joins the lab as a graduate student.
January 2015, Differential metabolite levels in response to spawning-induced inappetence in Atlantic salmon Salmo salar is published in Computational Biochemistry and Physiology Part D.
December 2014, Distinct metabolic responses of an ovarian cancer stem cell line is published in BMC Systems Biology.
December 2014, Addie wins a President’s Undergraduate Research Award for Spring 2015. Congratulations!
October 2014, Comparative transcriptomics and metabolomics in a rhesus macaque drug administration study is published in Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology.
August 2014, Amy wins a Metabolomics Society travel award. Congratulations!
July 2014, Katie successfully defends her thesis. Congratulations!
March 2014, Amy wins a GTRIC travel award. Congratulations!
August 2013, Rob, Amy, and Daniel successfully propose their research. Congratulations!
July 2013, Sugantha Moorthy joins the group as a postdoc.
June 2013, Applications of Metabolomics in Cancer Research is published in Journal of Carcinogenesis.
May 2013, Katie receives a Metabolomics Society Student Travel Award. Congratulations!
March 2013, Mark receives an NSF CAREER award. Congratulations!
March 2013, Anna receives a Fulbright fellowship AND an NSF Fellowship. Congratulations!
December 2012, Systematic Applications of Metabolomics in Metabolic Engineering is published in Metabolites.
November 2012, Weiwei Yin joins the group as a postdoc
August 2012, Khaldoon defends his Master’s thesis. Congratulations!
May 2012, McKenzie successfully proposes her research. Congratulations!
February 2012, Katie wins a GTRIC travel award. Congratulations!