The Peck lab is well represented at the Colby Liberal Arts Symposium (CLAS)! Em Shaw is presenting her work on identifying structual features of opsins that allow inhibition of lycopene elongase (link to poster). Abby Gregory is presenting more work figuring out how those hardy halophiles survive stress events (link to poster). In addition, Kiara Reed and Sammy Scofield (as part of their project in Applied and Environmental Microbiology) examined how we can crank up the pigment production by hacking the metabolism of H. volcanii.
