Pamela
Peralta-Yahya
Associate Professor, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Assistant Professor (2012- present)
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California Berkeley/Joint BioEnergy Institute, Metabolic Engineering and Synthetic Biology, 2012
Ph.D., Columbia University, Chemistry, 2008
B.A., Macalester College, Chemistry and Biology, 2003
Awards at Georgia Tech
2017 NIH MIRA Award
2016 Samsung Global Research Outreach Competition
2016 Kavli Fellow (US Academy of Science)
2016 Keystone Symposium Early Career Investigator Travel Award
2015 Blanchard Fellowship (Georgia Tech)
2014 DARPA Young Faculty Award
2014 DuPont Young Professor for Scientific Innovation Award
Research Interests
Biological production of chemicals (biofuels, pharmaceuticals, commodity chemicals)
Chemical biosensing
Molecular Evolution