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ALP Fellow 2024

Dr. Rajib Saha was selected to participate in the Big Ten Academic Alliance Academic Leadership Program

Dean’s Award 2024

Dr. Rajib Saha was named the recipient of the 2024 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Graduate Education

Wheaton Professorship

Group alum Dr. Wheaton L. Schroeder accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professorship in the Voiland School of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering at Washington State University

Lohani 3 in 5

Graduate student Lohani Esterhuizen secured first place in 3 in 5 Pitch category at the 5th annual COE Graduate Symposium

Corn Stress News

Graduate student Niaz Bahar Chowdhury and Dr. Rajib Saha are now featured in Nebraska Today for their recent work on understanding maize temperature stress response using the largest multi-organ maize metabolic model, iZMA6517

Dianna-Poster-Award

Graduate student Dianna Morris received LanzaTech Poster Award at Central US Synthetic Biology Workshop 2022

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#PhD #7 from our SSBio Lab! Funded by @USDA pre-doctoral fellowship & @NECornBoard, @UNLincoln’s @NonModelGirl Dianna Morris defended her thesis on the successes and challenges of developing three non-model bacteria as bioproduction chassis. Well done, Dianna!

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Funded by @NIGMS, @UNLincoln @NebEngineering @UNL_ChemEng’s
Sunayana Malla defended her #MS thesis on dissecting the metabolic plasticity of alveolar #macrophages & became the 4th MS (& 10th overall) member of our SSBio Lab Alumni Club. Congrats Sunayana!

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So long @ChEnected #AnnualMeeting! This time I took advantage of staying in Little Italy, eating well, going for runs in the morning & meeting old friends! Like always our @UNLincoln @NebEngineering @SSbio_UNL lab folks rock! See you all next year!

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Opportunities

The SSBio lab is currently seeking one postdoc. Please refer to the opportunities tab for more details.

Andrea NSF Award

Undergraduate student Andrea Goertzen won the NSF Graduate Research Fellowships Program. Congratulations!

Travel Fellowhip

Graduate students Niaz Bahar Chowdhury, Mark Kathol, and Dianna Morris received School of Graduate Study Travel Fellowship. Congratulations!

Niaz Bhai Award

Congrats to graduate student Niaz Bahar Chowdhury for being a 2022 recipient of the Milton E. Mohr Biotechnology award for academic excellence and the likelihood to succeed in this field!

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Research Presentation

Dissertation defense of Mohammad Mazharul Islam

Dissertation Defense of Wheaton L. Schroeder

Introducing the ORKA to dFBA

EuGeneCiD: Toward an Optimization-Based Tool for Synthetic Biology Design

35c: An integrated study of Staphylococcus aureus metabolism

R. palustris Lignin Catabolism and PHBV Production_AIChE 2020

620h: Introducing an Optimization- and Explicit Runge-Kutta- Based Approach (ORKA) to dFBA

613c: Predicting Enzyme Kinetics and Regulation from dFBA through KOPTIC

3gt: Toward Interventions Aiding the Future Viability of Important Crops through Systems Biology

338a: OptFill: A Tool for Infeasible Cycle-Free Gapfilling of Stoichiometric Metabolic Models

118e: Computation-Driven Analysis of Model Polyextremotolerant Fungus Exophiala dermatitidis