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- Mark Brynildsen will join the Departemnt of Chemical Engineering at Princeton University as an Assistant Professor in September 2010.
- Kechun Zhang will join the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Minnesota as an Asssitatnt Professor in September 2010.
- Yajun Yan started his academic career as Assistant Professor at University of Georgia in April, 2010.
- Liao Lab achieved direct solar fuel synthesis from CO2 and sunlight by engineering cyanobacteria. The work is published in Nature Biotechnology, 2009
- Jason Dean engineered a synthetic metabolic pathway into mice, allowing the animals to resist diet-induced obesity. The work was published in Cell Metabolism June 3, 2009, and featured in UCLA news release, Technology Review, and Science Daily.
- Synthetic metabolism developed for non-natural alcohols (Zhang et al. PNAS 2008,105: 20653–20658), highlighted in "this issue in PNAS", and "commentary"
- Liao Lab developed method for production of more efficient biofuels (Atsumi et al. Nature, 2008) UCLA press release
Press coverage: LA Times editorial, Science, Forbes, NatureNews, Chemical & Engineering News, Live Science, Technology Review, Faculty of 1000, Biopact, Greencarcongress, Chemistry World, California NanoSystems Institute, Associated Content, socalTech, Silobreaker, Cellulosicethanol, Biofuel Review, Engineer Online, Food and Fuel America, Energy Current, Genetic Modification, Peak Oil, Science Daily,
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Former lab member Shota Atsumi started Assistant Professorship at University of California, Davis, June. 2009.
- Former lab member Ganesh Sriram started Assistant Professorship at University of Maryland, College Park, Jan. 2008.
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