News
UI Engineering receives a $1.3 million boost from the National Science Foundation (NSF) EPSCoR Graduate Fellowship Program (EGFP)
Sunday, August 17, 2025
The project will focus on four key areas: advanced manufacturing processes, sensing and robotics, data integration for smart manufacturing systems, and biomanufacturing and biotechnology.
Researchers anticipate the project will lead to the development of AI-enabled, data-driven technologies that reduce costs, boost productivity and innovation, shorten time to market, and improve the quality and scalability of complex manufacturing systems.
EBSL holds the first Lab Olympics
Thursday, August 14, 2025
Five skillful players competed to win the 1st place.
Lana Prainito joins the lab
Tuesday, August 12, 2025
Lana is a third year CBE undergraduate student. Welcome!
Hyeongmin attends SIMB 2025 in San Francisco
Saturday, July 26, 2025
Hyeongmin presented a talk "Design of synthetic microbial cocultures to overcome fundamental limitations of fermentation."

Harsha successfully completes SSTP at EBSL
Friday, July 25, 2025
Harsha successfully constructed a PHA producing Escherichia coli, and presented a poster.
EBSL participates in NSF EPSCoR Iowa Symposium 2025
Thursday, July 24, 2025
Rhea and Elizabeth presented a poster titled: Imaging and growth modeling of wild Cupriavidus necator biodiversity for analysis of bioplastic production. Hyeongmin and Antonio presented a poster titled: Accelerating synthetic biology for sustainable 1,5-diaminopentane production through nanofabricated high-throughput assay.
EBSL gathers to welcome Harsha
Friday, July 11, 2025
Lab members had a lunch in Hamburg Inn, where is known as a must-stop place for presidential candidates on their way through Iowa!
Harshavardhan Narayan joins EBSL as part of the Iowa Secondary Student Training Program (SSTP)
Monday, June 23, 2025
Harsha is a high school student from Michigan. Welcome!
Hyeongmin attends ASM Microbe 2025 in LA.
Wednesday, June 18, 2025
Hyeongmin presented a poster "Accelerating Genome Editing in Cupriavidus necator."
Hyeongmin visits Korean Institute of Science and Technology (KIST)
Thursday, May 29, 2025
Hyeongmin visited KIST to give a talk and meet with collaborators.
Pagination