Angad Mehta
@angadmehta
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Asst. Prof. @ChemistryUIUC, @IGBIllinois, @BIOENGatIL, @CancerCenterIL synthetic biology, synthetic immunology, biologics, evolution, endosymbiosis
Urbana, IL
Joined July 2009
I’m incredibly thankful to @OnoInitiative for supporting our work, I’m honored and I really look forward to all the exciting research we plan to pursue as a part of this award. Congratulations to @basktastic and @StacyMalaker.
The 2025 Ono Initiative Award #chembio is presented to @basktastic, @StacyMalaker, @angadmehta as noted. Congratulations!.Jeremy Baskin, PhD @Cornell.Stacy Malaker, PhD @Yale.Angad Mehta, PhD @ChemistryUIUC @IGBIllinois.
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RT @OnoInitiative: The 2025 Ono Initiative Award #chembio is presented to @basktastic, @StacyMalaker, @angadmehta as noted. Congratulations….
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The Ono Pharma Foundation was established to support academic research in relevant scientific fields, which have the potential of making significant impact on therapeutic approaches to disease and...
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RT @basktastic: I’m immensely grateful to @OnoInitiative for this honor and for supporting our work — and congratulations to @StacyMalaker….
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RT @StacyMalaker: 🙌🥂Absolutely thrilled to be selected by the @OnoInitiative for this award, especially with rockstars like @basktastic and….
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Honored to be named a Sloan Fellow. Thanks to my lab members, past and present, for their hard work and creativity. Also thanks to my mentors and colleagues for their support and guidance over the years.
Three #ILLINOIS scientists are among 126 recipients of the 2025 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowships. Awardees represent “the very best of early-career science, embodying the creativity, ambition, and rigor that drive discovery forward.” ▶️
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RT @NewsAtIllinois: Three #ILLINOIS scientists are among 126 recipients of the 2025 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowships. Awardees repre….
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RT @ChemistryUIUC: A trio of @UofIllinois scientists are among 126 early-career scientists awarded 2025 @SloanFoundation Research Fellowshi….
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Excited to share this work from my lab. Congrats to the fantastic team that worked on this study!
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Nature Communications - Cyanobacterial bioenergetics may have driven chloroplast evolution. Here, the authors show that cyanobacterial endosymbionts expressing plastidic ADP/ATP carrier...
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RT @ChemistryUIUC: A research team led by @angadmehta and postdoctoral researcher Bidhan Chandra De has found evidence indicating that chlo….
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RT @NewsAtIllinois: #ILLINOIS researchers found evidence indicating that chloroplasts may have originated as energy-generating organelles a….
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RT @NobelPrize: BREAKING NEWS.The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Chemistry with one half to….
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RT @NewsAtIllinois: #IILINOIS scientists are using evolution theory to help bioengineer new pathways to sustainable energy sources and new….
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RT @angadmehta: @StaNEB_Turbo paper is now out Congrats to the entire team who worked on this. It was great workin….
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Scientific Reports - Parallel single B cell transcriptomics to elucidate pig B cell repertoire
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Another addition to the endosymbiosis work from my lab: "Introducing carbon assimilation in yeasts using photosynthetic directed endosymbiosis" Congrats to all authors on this wonderful work. Excited to see how we take this forward.
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Nature Communications - Transforming model heterotrophs into autotrophs is usually accomplished by engineering one carbon assimilation pathway and/or employing laboratory evolution. Here, the...
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Super excited to work on this!.
The @NSF has announced a $30 million grant to support a transformative research center at Beckman. The center will use cutting-edge #imaging tech to develop whole-cell models, which will be shared with the public through a partnership with @Minecraft. ▶️
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RT @ChemistryUIUC: This exciting “moon-shot effort” to transform our understanding of cell function will be led by @ChemistryUIUC professor….
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RT @ChemistryUIUC: Delve into the Microbial Multiverse @IllinoisMSI to learn about Microbe-Microbe Interactions in this session featuring @….
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RT @profjeffchan: Shared a lovely meal this evening with Prof Jason Chin of @MRC_LMB and Dr Brian Hurley of @Novartis who are visiting @Che….
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RT @profjeffchan: Many thanks to Prof Abby Doyle of @uclachem who gave the first of two talks today as the 2023 @ChemistryUIUC R.C. Fuson L….
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