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Two presentations from the Banta Lab were given at the 2023 American Chemical Society Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA.  Simay Gokulu presented a poster entitled "Effects of applied mechanical forces on enzymatic activity via DNA spring assembly around alcohol dehydrogenase (AdhD) from Pyrococcus furiosus".  And Farid Khoury presented a poster entitled "Calcium-dependent platform for protein purification and sensing".

Professor Banta co-convened a session entitled "Microbial Metal Recovery from All Industrial Wastes and Co-Products" at the SIMB annual meeting in Minneapolis, MN.  Within the session Hannah Zurier presented a talk entitled "Effects of Rare Earth Elements on the Biomining Organism Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans"

Salomon Vainstein successfully defended his PhD dissertation entitled "Engineering Formate Dehydrogenase Enzymatic Activity for Non-Canonical Cofactors Through Rational Design".  Sal is the 20th PhD student and first magician graduating from the Banta Lab.  Congratulations Dr. Vainstein!