May
17
Mikhail has been awarded a Dodds Fellowship, one of Princeton's honorific fellowships. Congrats Mikhail!
A. James Link's lab
Protein engineering and chemical biology
Protein engineering and chemical biology
2013
Apr
8
Jamie has been promoted to Associate Professor effective July 1.
Jan
8
New grad students Jack Lu and Frank Piscotta from Chemical and Biological Engineering and Chuhan Zong from Chemistry have joined the Link Lab. Welcome!
2012
Aug
8
Our paper on lasso peptide discovery has been accepted at PNAS! Congrats to Mikhail, and click below to read the paper.
Aug
7
Students from last year's Project SEED cohort are featured in a video on the ACS website. Much of this video was shot in the Link Lab! Check out the video at the link below and click on the outreach tab to learn more about Project SEED at Princeton.
Jul
9
Our review article on lasso peptides has been accepted at Natural Product Reports. Click below to read the paper.
Jun
5
Today's graduation ceremony had six Link Lab members getting their degrees. Diya, Jessica, and Siyan received their PhDs while John, Mehek, and Michelle received their BSEs.
Apr
26
Diya and Jessica both defended their PhD theses this week. Congratulations, Dr. Abdeljabbar and Dr. Pan!
Mar
15
Siyan successfully defended her thesis. Congratulations, Dr. Zhang! Siyan will be joining Merck and Co. in August.
2011
Dec
16
Our paper on lasso peptide leader peptides is accepted at ChemComm. Congrats to Jakub, Jessica, and Mikhail!
Sep
26
Siyan and Angel's paper on BH3 peptide affinity maturation was accepted at ACS Synthetic Biology. Congrats!
Sep
13
Diya's paper on fungal cellulase expression in E. coli was accepted at Biotechnology Letters.
Jun
16
Jamie is named a DuPont Young Professor. We are grateful to DuPont for their support of our research.
Jul
31
Seniors Angel Long and Jakub Rajniak graduated. Angel will be heading to med school at Duke in the fall while Jakub will be purusing a PhD in Chemical Engineering at Stanford. Jakub was recognized at Class Day with the Hayes-Palmer Prize for overall academic excellence. You will both be missed, so please stay in touch!
Mar
21
Siyan's paper on PCR nanobeads is accepted at Nano Letters! Congratulations, Siyan!
Feb
2
Jessica's paper on microcin J25 engineering is accepted at JACS! Here is a link to the paper.
Feb
3
Mikhail passed his first proposition exam. Congrats, Mikhail!
Jan
14
First year grad student Alan Futran joins the group. Alan will be co-advised by Prof. Shvartsman. Welcome, Alan!.
2010
Dec
20
Siyan's paper on nanoparticles was accepted at Polymer Chemistry.
Aug
31
Our collaborative paper with Profs. Panagiotopoulos and Debenedetti was accepted at Biophysical Journal. Congrats to Andy, Siyan, and Igor!
Jun
1
Jayne, Wai Ling, and Molly graduated. Congrats and please stay in touch in the future!
May
30
Wai Ling receives two awards for her senior thesis work on lasso peptides: the departmental Merck & Co. award and the SEAS-wide MacCracken Prize. Congrats, Wai Ling!
May
28
Current Link lab members and alumni gathered during reunions for the first annual Link Lab barbeque. It was a lot of fun to see everyone again!
May
10
Jamie receives the E. Lawrence Keyes, Jr/Emerson Electric Co. Faculty Advancement Award in Engineering
Feb
15
Prof. Link is awarded an NSF CAREER grant.
Feb
9
Wai Ling and Jessica have their work on the microcin J25 leader peptide published in JACS.
Jan
11
Mikhail Maksimov joins the Link Lab. Welcome, Mikhail!
2009
Dec
24
Jessica and Wai Ling’s paper on engineering the production of microcin J25 is accepted at Protein Expression and Purification.
Nov
6
Diya, TJ, and Siyan’s paper on the incorporation of azidonorleucine into proteins in E. coli strains carrying a single genomic copy of an engineered MetRS is published at JACS. Congrats!