October 2012: Ashty Karim has won 3rd place in the Undergraduate Poster Competition at the 2012 AIChE Annual Meeting with a poster entitled "Characterization of plasmid burden and copy number in Saccharomyces cerevisiae for optimization of metabolic engineering applications." Congratulations, Ashty!

October 2012: Amanda Lanza has won the 2012 Proctor and Gamble Seminar Competition for a talk entitled “Developing New Biotechnology Tools for Understanding and Engineering Cellular Hosts.” Congratulations, Amanda!

October 2012: The Alper group welcomes Joe Abatemarco, graduate student in Chemical Engineering, to the group.

September 2012: The Alper group welcomes Andrew Hill, graduate student in Chemical Engineering, to the group.

June 2012: Amanda Lanza has won the top overall student/young investigator poster award sponsored by Metabolic Engineering journal at the Metabolic Engineering IX conference in Biarritz, France. Congratulations, Amanda!

May 2012: The Alper group welcomes Heidi Redden, graduate student in Biochemistry, to the group.

May 2012: Amanda Lanza has been selected as a recipient of the Jeff Byers Memorial Graduate Award in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. Congratulations, Amanda!

April 2012: Ashty Karim has won the Cockerell School of Engineering Undergraduate Research Poster Competition! Congratulations, Ashty!

April 2012: Amanda Lanza has been selected as a recipient of the P. E. O. Scholar Award. Congratulations, Amanda!

April 2012: The Alper group is pleased to announce that Sun-mi Lee has passed her preliminary oral exam. Congratulations Sun-mi!

March 2012: The Alper group is pleased to announce that Nathan Crook and Kate Curran have passed their preliminary oral exam. Congratulations Nathan and Kate!

November 2011: Austin Comer has won the Chemical Engineering Undergraduate Research Poster Competition! Congratulations, Austin!

October 2011: The Alper group welcomes Joseph Cheng, graduate student in Chemical Engineering, to the group.

July 2011: Amanda Lanza has been awarded the prestigious Donald D. Harrington Dissertation Fellowship. Congratulations Amanda!

June 2011: The Alper group is pleased to announce that John Blazeck has passed his preliminary oral exam. Congratulations Johnny!

May 2011: The Alper group congratulates Ben Reed on graduating with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and wishes him the best at the Georgia Institute of Technology

May 2011: The Alper group congratulates Ashley Poucher on graduating with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and wishes her the best at Exxon Mobil.

May 2011: The Alper group welcomes John Leavitt, graduate student in Cell and Molecular Biology, to the group.

May 2011: The Alper group is pleased to announce that Eric Young has passed his preliminary oral exam. Congratulations Eric!

May 2011: The Alper group is pleased to announce that Leqian Liu has passed his preliminary oral exam. Congratulations Leqian!

May 2010: The Alper group congratulates Wenly Ruan on graduating with a B.S. in Biology and wishes her the best at UT Southwestern Medical School.

May 2010: The Alper group welcomes Leqian Liu, graduate student in Biochemistry, to the group.

April 2010: Nathan Crook, Kate Moran, and Eric Young have been awarded the prestigious NSF Graduate Fellowship. Congratulations!

October 2009: The Alper group welcomes Nathan Crook, Kate Moran, and Sun-mi Lee, graduate students in Chemical Engineering, to the group.

October 2008: The Alper group welcomes Johnny Blazeck, Amanda Lanza, and Eric Young, graduate students in Chemical Engineering, to the group.