News - 2022

  • January 1, 2022: Welcome our new PhD student, Hassan Sher to join the group!
  • January 18, 2022: Jie's work on a novel glucuronyltransferase has been accepted for publication in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. Congratulations!
  • April 8, 2022: Jie was named the PhD Student Researcher of the BE Department and Caleb was recognized as the College of Engineering Graduate Student Teacher. Congratulations to both of them!
  • April 9, 2022: Jie won 3rd place in the Graduate Category at the 2022 Institute of Biological Engineering Annual Conference Poster Competition. Congratulations!
jie IBE
  • April 9, 2022: Kylee won 2rd place in the Undergraduate Category at the 2022 Institute of Biological Engineering Annual Conference Poster Competition. Congratulations!

Kylee IBE

  • April 14, 2022: Ellie was selected as winner of the College of Engineering poster competition. Congratulations!
  • April 26, 2022: Kathryn was selected for an Engineering Undergraduate Research Program (EURP) award . Congratulations!
  • June 22, 2022: Jie's work on creating diverse glycosides of 2'-hydroxyflavone through microbial glycosylation has been accepted for publication in Fitoterapia!
  • June 29-30, 2022: The Zhan Lab hosted three CIB Biotechnology Summer Academy students. Ceaira taught them various biological engineering techniques. 
  • July 18, 2022: Caleb has successfully passed his thesis defense. Congratulations, Caleb!

Caleb defense

  • October 29, 2022: Ellie was recognized as the winner of undergraduate poster presentations and Ammar was the winner of graduate poster presentations at the 2022 Intermountain Biological Engineering Conference. Congratulations to both of them!
  • December 10, 2022: Jie received the Excellent Research Award from the Chinese Association for Science and Technology in Utah. Congratulations!