January 2023:
- Connie was interviewed for a short Deutsche Welle film on the use of petrochemicals in the cosmetics industry and shared some thoughts on the power of synthetic biology!
October 2022:
- The Bailey lab will move to the University of Sydney School of Chemistry in June 2023
August 2022:
- New GST graduate student Mitchell Long rotates in the Bailey group. Welcome Mitchell!
- New undergraduates Damian Gooden and Elijah Green join. Welcome!
June 2022:
- Tien passes her CRP! Congrats Tien!
- Connie presents at the Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition in Calgary in the Biosynthesis of Natural Products Symposium
- Connie presents at the 19th International Symposium for Actinomycetes Biology in Toronto in the Synthetic Biology and Tools Development symposium
May 2022:
- Connie presents at the 3rd Synthetic Biology of Natural Products conference in Cancun
- Graduate students Zarin Tasnim and Mahbub Khan join the lab!
April 2022:
- Elijah successfully defends his honors thesis. Congrats Elijah!
- Strong Bailey lab representation at the Chemistry Department’s Undergraduate Research Symposium! Elijah does an oral presentation on his research and Ghaeath, Will, Rahul, and Chris present posters.
- Congrats to Will on the Melaven-Rhenium Scholarship and the Department of Chemistry Scholarship and to Ghaeath on the Halbert and Anne Carmichael Scholarship!
March 2022:
- Connie receives an NIH R15 grant to study heterologous expression of PKSs and NRPSs!
- Elijah accepts at the University of Chicago Biophysics PhD program! Congrats Elijah!
- Elijah is awarded the Volunteer of Distinction award
- Elijah and Anna-Kay present at the ACS National Meeting in San Diego
February 2022:
- Anna-Kay passes her candidacy research exam! Congrats Anna-Kay
January 2022:
- Undergraduates Megan Hayden and Andrew Amburn join. Welcome Megan and Andrew!
December 2021
- Mujeeb Wakeel joins as a chemistry PhD student. Welcome Mujeeb!
August 2021
- Erin and Tien publish a book chapter titled Metabolic Engineering of Actinomycetes for Natural Product Discovery.” in Actinomycetes: Diversity, Ecology, and Drug Discovery. Congrats Erin and Tien!
June 2021
- Visiting Undergraduate from Berea College, Cletus Mbalida joints the lab. Welcome Cletus!
May 2021
- Kevin Fleisher from Texas A&M Corpus Christ joins as an REU student. Welcome Kevin!
- Connie publishes a pice in the Conversation: Oil companies are going all-in on petrochemicals–and green chemistry needs help to compete
The piece has been picked up by 28+ outlets including Salon.com, KRQE.com, The Waco Tribune Herald, The Daily Non-Parallel, The Grand Island Independent, The Free-Lance Star, The McDowell News, The North Platte Telegraph, The Martinsville Bulletin, The Statesville Record Landmark, The Roanoke Times, The Morgantown News Herald, Hickory Daily Record, Independent Tribune, Idaho Press, Daily Progress, Tech Explore, The Winston Salem Journal, Yakima Herald, Greensboro News and Record, CT Post, Tulsa World, Pixstory, Design Development Today, Daily Journal Online, ActiniWorld, Metro Digital - Undergraduates Will Barker and Chris Lane join the lab. Welcome Will and Chris!
March 2021
- Elijah wins the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship! Congrats Elijah!
November 2020
- Congrats to Erin, Nolan, and Elijah for their review article in ChemBioChem!
- We welcome Anna-Kay West as a first year chemistry grad student!
July 2020
- Congratulations to Bailey lab undergraduates for departmental scholarships at Honors Day 2020! Elijah Hix was awarded the Halbert and Anne Carmichael Scholarship and Ghaeath Abbas was awarded the Dr. Lucy E. Scroggie Scholarship!
May 2020
- Erin and Elijah’s review is online: “Site Directed Mutagenesis as a Precision Tool to Enable Synthetic Biolgoy with Engineered Modular Polyketide Synthases”
- We welcome SMaRT program student Maddie Spradley to the laboratory. Welcome Maddie!
- Dinesh Velu finishes his Honors BCMB thesis and graduates. Goodbye Dinesh!
April 2020
- Erin and Elijah’s review in Synthetic and Systems Biotechnology “Site Directed Mutagenesis as a Precision Tool to Enable Synthetic Biolgoy with Engineered Modular Polyketide Synthases!” Congrats Erin and Elijah!
February 2020
- Undergraduate Jonathan Lochner joins. Welcome Jonathan!
January 2020
- Undergraduate Ghaeath Abbas joins! Welcome Ghaeath!
- Tien Tran joins as a graduate student!
November 2019
- Connie presents at Sewanee: The University of the South department of chemistry
October 2019
- Nolan Spengler joins as a graduate student. Welcome Nolan!
- Cole Sawyer from the Genome Science and Technology (GST) PhD program joins as a rotation student! Welcome Cole!
- Preprint from Connie’s postdoctoral work is posted
- Connie presents at SERMACS in the Advances in Chemical Biology Section
- Connie presents in the Berea College chemistry department
August 2019
- Undergraduate student Ashton Watkins joins. Welcome Ashton!
- The Bailey lab receives a UTK Support for Affiliated Research Teams (StART) grant to facillitate collaboration with the group of Omar Demerdash at ORNL!
May 2019
- Graduate student Matthew Curry joins over the summer. Welcome Matthew!
- REU student Maria Martinez joins for the summer from University of Central Florida. Welcome Maria!
April 2019
- Bailey Lab Undergraduate Elijah Hix wins a Department of Chemistry Scholarship for outstanding research and academics! Congrats Elijah!
January 2019
- Postdoctoral Fellow Erin Drufva joins
November 2018
- Graduate student Brandon Jessie joins