Plant and Algal Biochemistry, Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, Texas A&M University
On May 24, 2019 Ivette attended the very first Texas Chemical Biology Conference, which was held on the Texas A&M Campus at the campus hotel and conference center. Ivette’s poster was about her project for a directed evolution analysis on the LOS enzyme from the L race of B. braunii.
On June 5, 2019 Shruthi Garla joined the lab as a summer intern. She is a local high school student and will be working on B. braunii hydrocarbon production.
In February, 2019 Devon Boland joined the Devarenne Lab as a new graduate student. Devon is from Illinois and will be working on identifying the reductase genes from the L race of B. braunii needed for production of lycopadiene.
Ivette Cornejo Corona has rejoined the Devarenne Lab as a Postdoctoral Researcher. Her time in the lab is supported by a postdoctoral fellowship from the Méxican science agency CONACYT. She will be working on the reaction mechanism of the B. braunii L race LOS enzyme. Ivette was a previous member of the lab as a visiting graduate student. Welcome back to the lab Ivette.
The paper published by the Devarenne Lab with the lab of Dr. Arum Han about the development and use of a droplet microfluidic screening device for algae has been downloaded over 1,000 times from Plant Direct. This put the study in the top 20 downloaded papers in 2017 from the journal.