Research in her laboratory focuses on developing technologies to accelerate the engineering of microbes for the production of chemicals. Specifically, her lab focuses on the engineering of baker’s yeast, due to its robustness during the fermentation processes and the limited number of synthetic biology tools available to rapidly engineer this organism. CSHL topic: Prof. Peralta-Yahya will lead the yeast metabolic engineering module at the Cold Spring Harbor Course. In this module, participants will learn a) key computational tools used for the design of metabolic pathways, c) yeast molecular biology, and d) quantification of the microbially-produced product.