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Welcome to the Mehta Lab at Illinois!

We develop synthetic biology platforms to perform laboratory evolution experiments with a view to study fundamental chemistry of biological systems and develop biologics

Key Areas of Current Research:

Engineering synthetic, modular vaccine platforms (bacterial and viral vaccines, including COVID-19 vaccines)
Synthetic Models to study eukaryotic cell evolution in lab – chimeric organisms
Develop fundamentally novel and genetically tractable photosynthetic bioproduction platforms

10 June 2020 – Our statement on #ShutDownSTEM

Funding:

Recent Posts

Moore Foundation and Simons Foundation awards funding to our Chloroplast evolution project

Posted on September 7, 2020 by Angad Pankaj Mehta

We are developing experimental models to recapitulate and study chloroplast evolution in lab. (read more: https://publish.illinois.edu/apmehtalab/research/)

NSF funds our COVID-19 vaccines project Comments Off on NSF funds our COVID-19 vaccines project