Congrats to Ethan and Logan on publishing the first paper from the Solomon Lab. Check out Current Opinion in Systems Biology to learn more about the natural product potential of fungal systems: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coisb.2017.07.010 The first description of the fungal cellulosome in anaerobic fungi was published in Nature Microbiology with contributions from Prof. Solomon. This large structure assembles various enzymes in a molecular assembly line to efficiently degrade plant biomass and promises to improve bioenergy production.
Summer is underway and the Solomon Lab welcomes 3 new Solomon Lab Interns:
Abigail Hunnicut, Makayla Schacht, & Bowman Clark. Rohit, Arren, Adrian and Alex also return to the lab as SURF Scholars, MASI Fellows and Summer Stay Fellows! It's a full house The Solomon Lab welcomes Dr. Jake Englaender, a metabolic engineer from RPI! Jake is interested in harnessing the biosynthetic potential of anaerobic fungi for pathway development. Welcome! Prof. Solomon traveled to San Francisco to present results from Ethan, Casey and Adrian at the annual meeting of the American Chemical Society. Here, he discussed the ability of newly identified non-model microbes to degrade woody S-lignin rich biomass and proposed new paths forward for the biotech industry. Prof. Solomon accepted a courtesy appointment in Purdue's Laboratory for Renewable Resources Engineering (LORRE). As a LORRE member, the Solomon Lab develops innovative biomolecular approaches to generate microbes that transform renewable resources and agricultural commodities into value-added products, while leveraging the bioprocessing expertise of LORRE to translate these discoveries to industrial processes.
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