I am a 4th year graduate student in the Kunjapur Lab at the University of Delaware. I have worked in synthetic biology for the past 7 years as an undergraduate in the DeLisa Lab at Cornell University. I am really excited about biosynthesizing non-standard amino acids and introducing new chemistries to biology and ensuring appropriate biocontainment for the cool synthetic biology innovations.
Publication Date: April 2022
EBRC recommendations for increasing security in the synthetic DNA synthesis industry.
Publication Date: April 2022
As NSF establishes its new Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships to translate research into practical applications, the agency has abundant opportunity to boldly support engineering biology research towards transformational, use-inspired technologies to grow and expand the U.S. bioeconomy. EBRC provides recommendations for the new Directorate to support the translation of fundamental engineering biology research results, establish infrastructure to transform tools into technologies, and to enable cross-disciplinary and entrepreneurial research, education, and training.
After receiving a B.S. in Biological Engineering at Purdue University in 2020, I began my PhD in Chemical and Biological Engineering at Northwestern University. I am currently working under Dr. Keith Tyo to develop methods of utilizing cost-negative feedstocks by mitigating contamination in industrial-scale fermentations. Outside of lab, I enjoy making music and long walks on the beach.
Sanjeeva is a PhD student in Mansell lab at Iowa state university. His research work focuses on developing novel prebiotic-probiotic pairs for gut microbiome engineer. Prior to this, he completed his masters from IIT Guwahati, where he focused on constructing metabolic pathway to convert dairy waste to D-Lactic acid. Currently, he serves as a member of the EBRC SPA Board and works as the liaison to the Policy and International Engagement group. In addition, he also worked as a downstream process engineer for monoclonal antibody purification at Dr. Reddy Laboratories in India. Outside research, he enjoys watching cricket, playing badminton, running etc.
Christina is a graduate student in the Ben Shen Lab at UF Scripps Biomedical Research in Jupiter, Florida. She utilizes synthetic biology for natural product discovery by leveraging the group’s large microbial strain collection to identify and engineer biosynthetic gene clusters encoding for valuable natural products. Prior to starting graduate school, she worked in Michael Goodson’s Lab at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), as well as participating in iGEM. She graduated from Wright State University with her B.S. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in 2021.
Edward is a postdoctoral fellow in the Ben Shen lab at UF Scripps. His research focuses on developing and utilizing synthetic biology approaches for natural product discovery and biosynthetic engineering, with an emphasis on biosynthetic gene cluster regulation. Prior to his postdoctoral position, he obtained his Ph.D. in the Gavin Williams lab at North Carolina State University where he engineered polyketide synthases and constructed transcription factor-based biosensors.
I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Joint Bioenergy institute working on engineering microbial hosts for sustainable production of biofuels and bioproducts
EBRC 2024 Annual Meeting
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Maya Hey is a postdoctoral researcher with the NSF-funded Future Organisms project (co-PIs: Jane Calvert and Erika Szymanski) as part of an international team investigating the emergent subfield of synthetic genomics. She brings a humanities and social science perspective to the life sciences, calling upon feminist, intersectional, and multispecies approaches to map out human responsibilities in a more-than-human world. She holds degrees in communications (PhD), food anthropology (MA), and dietetics (BS).