Welcome to our research group!

Our research group seeks to fundamentally understand and engineer cellular metabolism with the ultimate goal to design, construct, and characterize cells with optimized metabolic functionalities.  These engineered cells are utilized as efficient and robust whole-cell biocatalysts exhibiting only desirable properties specifically tailored for biotechnological applications related to health, bioenergy, and environment. To pursue the goal, our research group is interested in applying and developing both theoretical and experimental tools in interdisciplinary fields of systems and synthetic biolgy together with metabolic and biochemical engineering.

 

 

News

04/26/2012: Congratulations to Akshitha and Katie for winning the CBE poster awards and for excellent presentation at the CBE annual banquet!

04/04/2012: We have 8th iGEM meeting in DO552 from 6-7pm.

03/30/2012: Congratulations to Genesis for recieving the Undergraduate Summer Research Internship 2012!

03/29/2012: Congratulations to Akshitha and Katie for winning the EuReKa poster award!

02/28/2012: We have 7th iGEM meeting in DO314 from 6-7pm.

02/01/2012: We have 6th iGEM meeting in DO314 from 6-7pm.

11/30/2012: We have 5th iGEM meeting in DO314 from 6-7pm.

01/15/2012: Welcome Dr. Narayan Niraula to join our group as a posdoctoral researcher!

01/14/2012: Lab gathering at Barley's and farewell for Kevin Spellman .

11/30/2011: We have 4th iGEM meeting.

11/09/2011: We have 3rd iGEM meeting.

10/26/2011: We have 2nd iGEM meeting.

10/16/2011: Dr. Trinh attends AIChE annual meeting in Minneapolis!

10/12/2011: We form the iGEM team at UTK and have the first meeting.

09/26/2011: Welcome Adam Thompson to join the group!

09/06/2011: Welcome Genesis Minter to join our lab as an undergraduate research assistant!

08/01/2011: Welcome Donovan Layton to join the group!

07/24/2011: Dr. Trinh attends SIM annual conference in New Orleans.

07/01/2011: Welcome Michael Wierzbicki to join the group!

05/02/2011: Dr. Trinh attends SIM conference for biofuels and biochemicals in Seatle.

03/29/2011: Congratulations to Akshitha, Katie, and Kevin for winning the 2011 Summer Research Scholarships for Undergraduates!

02/01/2011: Welcome Akshitha Yarrobothula to join our lab as an undergraduate research assistant!

01/29/2011: Welcome Kevin Spellman to join our lab as an undergraduate research assistant!

01/24/2011: Welcome Katie Lutes to join our lab as an undergraduate research assistant!

Dr. Trinh started his position as an assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville on January 1st, 2011. Dr. Trinh is currently recruiting self-motivated and creative graduate students and postdoctoral researchers to join the research group.