We were just featured in Fine Dining Lovers as the chef-in-residence program with Mugaritz kicks off on campus!

Vayu participated in a Reddit AMA answering questions about the present and future of biomanufacturing ! It was awesome!

New photos of our lab space are live! Thanks to our awesome rotation student Franklin for taking these!

Jon is joining us as a Schmidt Science Fellow - exciting to have another member of our awesome postdoc team!

Our lab strikes again! Deniz won best poster at the BioE department retreat at Stanford ! Vayu won best faculty flash talk! Go us !!!! Our second year student Deniz crushed it, facing stiff competition from students across all years.

Our lab strikes again! Congrats Jaqueline for winning best poster at the ECOFAB conference in Asilomar. We are not surprised - you are crushing it in your project on Trichoderma for biocontrol!

so excited to have our first ever lab t-shirt, featuring some upcycled fermented prototypes on the front, and the abstract of Vayu’s 2024 Nature Microbiology paper on the back!

Congrats to us!!! Vayu, AK, Alessandra, Braydon blew it out of the park sharing their vision for a less wasteful and more nutritious food system! We won funding for our work, from Bio-X!

Was special to have so many friends, collaborators, family, heroes, and supporters share space and place with us. We loved showing our new lab and community!

Our star postdoc Taylor was part of the team organizing the first ever Stanford fermented foods conference, the best conference ever! A beautiful time! Shoutout to Elisa Caffrey and Justin Sonnenburg and Dave Zilber for organizing as well. Vayu gave a talk and was on a panel (with some of his heroes)

We are sad to see you leave but grateful for the amazing gastronomy and science you contributed to our group over the last three months! Come back!

We were honored to host head chef (Andoni Aduriz) and head of creativity (Ramon Perise) from Mugaritz in our lab during the first week of September. This marked the kick-off for our CHEF IN RESIDENCE PROGRAM!

Welcome Taylor, our new star postdoc! We are so excited to learn from and with you.

AK was one of 11 winners among around 300 posters at the Bio-X symposium!! We are not surprised: she is a star. And she had a salami prototype hanging on her poster.

Shout-out to Jenn Brophy, Mike Jewett, Drew Endy, and all their lab members for hosting us in bioengineering when we got started at Stanford. We welcomed them to our new space in Clark center to celebrate!

We are excited to have a permanent home! The first phase of construction (the lab) is done, and hopefully the kitchen will be done soon too! Stay tuned for more photos!

Shout-out to Shahar, AK, and Alessandra who ran the Hill-Maini Lab booth at the Bio-X Science day, engaging diverse kids and families from the area with fungi and fun

Peter wins the prestigious Bio-X PhD fellowship for his work on developing high-throughput methods to engineer basidiomycete mushrooms. Excited to collaborate with the Fordyce lab on this work!

Juicy updates: Shreya and Deniz, PhD students in the Bioengineering program, were crazy enough to come back to our lab after their rotations, to join full time! Lucky us!

Excited to host Alessandra, a trained chef and current PhD student in Gastronomic Sciences at the Basque culinary center, in our lab over the summer!