Other

• Razmpour, T., “Gradient Navigation for Ingestible Microrobots” Oral presentation,  7th Annual UNL College of Engineering Graduate Student Symposium, February 13, 2026.
• Ampimah, N., Nelson, Y.N., Nikolau, B., Sparks. E., Saha, R., “Transcriptional Regulation of Plant Cuticle Biosynthesis: A Metabolic Modeling Approach to Enhance Crop Resilience” Oral Presentation,  7th Annual UNL College of Engineering Graduate Student Symposium, February 13, 2026.
• Tabibian, M., Razmpour, T., and Saha, R., “Diffusion Models vs. DCGANs for Class-Imbalanced Lung Cancer CT Classification: A Comparative Study” Oral Presentation,  7th Annual UNL College of Engineering Graduate Student Symposium, February 13, 2026.
• Osinuga, A., Kathol, M., and Saha, R., “Revealing Core Growth Determinants Hidden in a Redundant Proteome: Solving a High-Complexity Biological Problem”, Oral Presentation,  7th Annual UNL College of Engineering Graduate Student Symposium, February 13, 2026.
• Ampimah, N., “The Plant’s Amor (Cuticle): Engineering Resilient Crops for a Changing Climate,“ 3 Minute Thesis(3MT) Competition, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Oct 10, 2025.
• Malla, S., “Exploring Immunometabolism: The Role of Metabolism in immune responses from systems biology perspective,“ 3 Minute Thesis(3MT) Competition, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Oct 10, 2025.
• Carr, E., “Discovery of a new fungal species leads to observations  of melanin production, regulation, and its role in symbiosis,“ 3 Minute Thesis(3MT) Competition, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Oct 10, 2025.
• Barton, Q., Carr, E., Malla, S., Harris, S., and Saha, R., “Exposure to Dryland Cyanobacteria and their Metabolites Induces Melanin Secretion by Fungi​,” 15^th Workshop on Cyanobacteria, June 4, 2025.
• Carr, E.C., Barton, Q., Riekhof, W.R., Harris, S.D., Saha, R,”Excreted fungal melanin as a mediator for photosynthetic symbioses”, ACS Spring 2025, March 22-27, 2025.
• Osinuga, A., Malla, S., and Saha, R., “Towards Predicting and Understanding Immune Responses to Bordetella pertussis Booster Vaccination”, Oral Presentation,  6th Annual UNL College of Engineering Graduate Student Symposium, February 21, 2025.
• Razmpour T., “Integrating Transcriptomics Data, Genome-Scale Metabolic Modeling, and Machine Learning to Elucidate Metabolic Vulnerabilities and Biomarkers in Pancreatic Cancer,” 3 in 5 Pitch,  6th Annual UNL College of Engineering Graduate Student Symposium, February 21, 2025.
• Malla, S., Smith, D., Knoell D., Derrick Samuelson. et al. “Unraveling the Multifaceted Roles of Zinc Homeostasis in Host Defense: A Systems Biology Perspective.” 3 in 5 Pitch,  6th Annual UNL College of Engineering Graduate Student Symposium, February 21, 2025.
• Shahreen, N., Chowdhury, N., and Saha, R., “Metabolic Adaptations and Overflow Metabolism in Staphylococcus aureus and Neisseria gonorrhea,” COBRA Meeting, Nov 5–10, 2024.
• Malla, S., Sajeevan, K.A., Acharya, B. et al. “Dissecting metabolic landscape of alveolar macrophage.” COBRA Annual Meeting, Oct 24 -26 , 2024.
• Mohanty, S., Nelson E., Schroeder W., Saha R., “Optrecon–an Optimization-Based Framework for Automated Genome Scale Model Reconstruction upon Resolving Thermodynamically Infeasible Cycles”, COBRA ,Oct 24-27, 2024.
• Razmpour, T., Tabibian, M., and Saha, R., “Integrating Transcriptomics Data, Genome-Scale Metabolic Modeling, and Machine Learning to Elucidate Metabolic Vulnerabilities and Biomarkers in Pancreatic Cancer,” COBRA  Annual Meeting, Oct 24–26, 2024.
• Carr, E.C., Barton, Q., Riekhof, W.R., Harris, S.D., Saha, R, “Excreted fungal melanin as a mediator for photosynthetic symbioses”, Central Synthetic Biology Conference, Sept 18-20, 2024.
• Kathol, M., Chowdhury, N., Immethun, C., Alsiyabi, A., Morris, D., and Saha, R., Investigating Lignin Degradation Mechanisms of Rhodopseudomonas palustris CGA009, Central Synthetic Biology Workshop, Sept 19-20, 2024.
• Osinuga, A., Beer, L., and Saha, R., “Advancing Plant Systems Biology: Dynamic Metabolic Modeling for Understanding Genetic and Biochemical Redundancy, Pathway Regulation, and Cuticle Protection”, Oral Presentation, The 26th International Symposium on Plant Lipids (ISPL), July, 2024.
• Kathol, M., Chowdhury, N., Immethun, C., Alsiyabi, A., Morris, D., and Saha, R., Investigating Lignin Degradation Mechanisms of Rhodopseudomonas palustris CGA009, ACS Spring, Apr 17-21, 2024
• Osinuga, A., Solis, A. G., Cahoon, R., Cahoon, E., Alsiyabi, A., and Saha, R., “Advancing Metabolic Understanding with a Refined Dynamic Metabolic Flux Analysis (r-DMFA) Framework: A Case Study on Sphingolipid Biosynthesis and Homeostasis in Arabidopsis Thaliana” Oral Presentation,  5^th Annual UNL College of Engineering Graduate Student Symposium, February 23, 2024.
• Shahreen, N., Thomas, VC., and Saha, R., “Omics-Informed Metabolic Modeling of Staphylococcus Aureus Reveals Underlying Principles of Overflow Metabolism”, BMES Annual Meeting, Oct 11–14, 2023.
• Long, D., and Saha, R., “The Green Machine: Bacterial strain design for kids” College of Engineering Graduate Symposium, Keynote, February 26th, 2021.
• Alsiyabi, A., Brown, B., Immethun, C., and Saha R., “Harnessing sunlight to convert CO2 into biodegradable plastic” College of Engineering Graduate Symposium, February 26th, 2021
• Brown, B. and Saha, R., “Conversion of Lignin into Biodegradable Plastic by Rhodopseudomonas palustris CGA009,” Proceedings of World Biomaterials Congress, Dec 11-15, 2020.
• Lamarre, Y., A. Aich, M. Islam, J. M. Scianni, A. C. S. Pinto, A. M. C. Tavassi, J. Elion, W. E. Nemer, R. Saha, S. Kashima, and D. T. Covas, “Leveraging plasma-derived exosomes for biomarker discovery in sickle cell disease: preparation for a large prospective study”, Hematology, Transfusion and Cell Therapy, 2020, 42:S2.
• Brown, B.. and Saha, R., “Conversion of Lignin into Biodegradable Plastic by Rhodopseudomonas palustris CGA009,” Proceedings of World Biomaterials Congress, Dec 11-15, 2020.
• Brown, B.. and Saha, R., “Conversion of Lignin into Bioplastic by Rhodopseudomonas palustris,” Proceedings of ASABE International Meeting, Jul 13-15, 2020.
• [People’s choice Award winner] Islam, M. M., “Metabolic Modeling and Analysis of Microbes, Plants, and Microbial Ecosystems: Discovery and Redesign”, College of Engineering Graduate Research Symposium, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, February 21, 2020.
• Saha, R., “Metabolic Modeling and ‘Omics’ Data Integration in the Context of Plant Systems Biology”, Agronomy & Horticulture Seminar, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, November 22, 2019
• Islam, M. M., Schroeder, W., Fernando, S. C., and Saha, R., “Microbiome-Virome Interactions in Bovine Rumen: Elucidating Metabolic Transactions Through Mathematical Modeling “, 255th ACS National Meeting and Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 18-22, 2018
• Saha, R., “Design Biological Systems: The “LEGO way”, Science Cafe, University of Nebraska State Museum, Morrill Hall, Lincoln, Nebraska, November 16, 2017
• Saha, R., “Plant Metabolic Models: From Model Building to ‘Omics Data Integration and Answering Important Biological Questions”, Nebraska Research and Innovation Conference on Predictive Crop Design: Genome to Phenome, Lincoln, NE, April 6-7, 2017.
• Saha, R., “Modeling of Metabolism: From Individual Microorganisms to Plant and Microbial Community”, UNL Plant Science Retreat, Nebraska City, NE, October 14-15, 2016.
• Saha, R., Berla, B.M., Mueller, T.J., Welkie, D.J., Sherman, L., Pakrasi, H.B. and Maranas, C.D., “Comparative genome-scale modeling of the metabolic potential of cyanobacteria Cyanothece sp. ATCC 51142 and Synechocystis sp. PCC6803”, 11th workshop on cyanobacteria, St. Louis, MO, Aug 7-11, 2013.
• Saha, R., Berla, B.M., Mueller, T.J., Elvitigala, T., Page, L.E., Pakrasi, H.B. and Maranas, C.D., “Contrasting the metabolic capabilities of cyanobacterial species for assessing bio-production platform selection”, ACS annual meeting, San Diego, CA, Mar 25-29, 2012.
• Saha, R., Park, W, Lee, D.Y. and Karimi, D.Y., “Comparison on web-based simulation tools of biochemical and cellular model in systems biology”, International conference on modeling in chemical and biological engineering sciences, Bangkok, Oct 25-27, 2006.

Poster Presentations

• Nijhum, S.N., Malla, S., Carr, E., Saha, R., “Metabolite Drivers and Flux Dynamics Across All Three Melanin Biosynthetic Pathways in Exophiala viscosа Reveal Key Bottlenecks” Poster Presentation, 7th Annual UNL College of Engineering Graduate Student Symposium, February 13, 2026.
• Nijhum, S.N., Malla, S., Carr, E., Saha, R., “Metabolite Drivers and Flux Dynamics Across All Three Melanin Biosynthetic Pathways in Exophiala viscosа Reveal Key Bottlenecks” Poster Presentation, 5th Annual UNL Microbiology Research Symposium, December 5, 2025.
• Al-Ramahy, R., Carr, E., Kathol, M., Azem, A., Aich, N., and Saha, R., “Reconstruction, Analysis, and Validation of a Genome-Scale Metabolic Model of Rickettsia Rickettsii​,” Summer Research Symposium, August 5, 2025.
• Stone, E., Knobbe, E., Shahreen, N., and Saha, R., “Reconstruction, Analysis, and Validation of a Genome-Scale Metabolic Model of Rickettsia Rickettsii​,” Summer Research Symposium, August 5, 2025.
• Bryant, H., Osinuga, A., and Saha, R., “Insights into Plant Lipid Biosynthesis via Intergrative Modeling and Experimentation​,” Summer Research Symposium, August 5, 2025.
• Barton, Q., Carr, E., Malla, S., Harris, S., and Saha, R., “Exposure to Dryland Cyanobacteria and their Metabolites Induces Melanin Secretion by Fungi​,” Summer Research Symposium, August 5, 2025.
• Tabibian, M., Razmpour, T., and Saha, R., “Genome-scale Metabolic Modeling and Machine Learning Unravel Role of Mast Cells in Lung Cancer through a Multi-level Analysis” UNL Student Research Days, April 15, 2025.
• Shahreen, N., Chowdhury, N., Stone, E., Knobbe, E., and Saha, R., “Enzyme-constrained Metabolic Model of Treponema pallidum Identified Glycerol-3-phosphate Dehydrogenase as an Alternate Electron Sink,” UNL Student Research Days, April 15, 2025.
• Razmpour, T., Tabibian, M., and Saha, R., “Integrating Transcriptomics Data, Genome-Scale Metabolic Modeling, and Machine Learning to Elucidate Metabolic Vulnerabilities and Biomarkers in Pancreatic Cancer” UNL Student Research Days, April 15, 2025.
• Ampimah, N., Nelson, Y.N., Nikolau, B., Sparks. E., Saha, R., “Transcriptional Regulation of Plant Cuticle Biosynthesis: A Metabolic Modeling Approach to Enhance Crop Resilience” UNL Student Research Days, April 15, 2025.
• Osinuga, A., Sajeevan, K., …, Chowdhury, R., and Saha, R., “Bridging Enzyme Kinetics and Machine Learning: A Framework to Decode Catalytic Mutations for Smarter Industrial and Biological Applications” UNL Student Research Days, April 15, 2025.
• Ampimah, N., Nelson, Y.N., Nikolau, B., Sparks. E., Saha, R., “Transcriptional Regulation of Plant Cuticle Biosynthesis: A Metabolic Modeling Approach to Enhance Crop Resilience” 6th Annual UNL College of Engineering Graduate Student Symposium, February 21, 2025.
•  Tabibian, M., Razmpour, T., and Saha, R., “Metabolic Modeling and Machine Learning Unravel Role of Mast Cells in Lung Cancer,” 6th Annual UNL College of Engineering Graduate Student Symposium, February 21, 2025.
•  Shahreen, N., Chowdhury, N., Stone, E., Knobbe, E., and Saha, R., “Enzyme-constrained Metabolic Model of Treponema pallidum Identified Glycerol-3-phosphate Dehydrogenase as an Alternate Electron Sink,” 6th Annual UNL College of Engineering Graduate Student Symposium, February 21, 2025.
• Osinuga, A., Gonzalez-Solis, A.,Cahoon, R., Al-Siyabi, A., Winkelman, D., Nikolau, B., Yandeau-Nelson, M., Cahoon, E. and, Saha, R., “Dynamic Metabolic Modeling of Plant Lipid Networks: Unraveling Variability and Regulation,” The Gordon Research Conference (GRC) in Pomona, CA,  January 26 – 31, 2025.
• Osinuga, A., Gonzalez-Solis, A.,Cahoon, R., Al-Siyabi, A., Winkelman, D., Nikolau, B., Yandeau-Nelson, M., Cahoon, E. and, Saha, R., “Advancing Dynamic Metabolic Modeling to Navigate Variability in Plant Lipid Networks,” The Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) in Pomona, CA,  January 25 – 26, 2025.
• Carr, E.C., Harris S.D., Riekhof, W.R., and Saha, R., “Melanin Secretion by Exophiala viscosa is Vital to Photoautotrophic Symbiosis”, NSF MCB CAREER Awardee Conference, Oct 27-29, 2024.
• Tabibian, M., Razmpour, T., and Saha, R., “Metabolic Modeling and Machine Learning Unravel Role of Mast Cells in Lung Cancer,” COBRA  Annual Meeting, Oct 24–26, 2024.
• Osinuga, A., …, Saha, R., “Generalizable Dynamic Modeling Framework for Temporal Variability in Metabolomics: A Case Study on Sphingolipid Biosynthesis in Arabidopsis thaliana,” The 9th Conference on Constraint-Based Reconstruction and Analysis (COBRA 2024) in San Diego, CA, Oct., 2024.
• Kathol, M., Chowdhury, N., Immethun, C., Alsiyabi, A., Morris, D., and Saha, R.,High Promiscuity in Lignin Degradation Enzymes in Rhodopseudomonas palustris CGA009, SIMB, Aug 4-7, 2024.
• Osinuga, A., Saha, R, “Embracing Variability in Dynamic Metabolic Modeling: Novel Insights into Arbidopsis thaliana’s Sphingolipid Biosynthesis,” The 26th International Symposium on Plant Lipids (ISPL), July, 2024.
• Kathol, M., Immethun, C., Alsiyabi, A., Morris, D., and Saha, R.,Investigating the Relaxase Behavior and Replication Functionality of the Mobilization Protein Mobv in the Plasmid pBBR1, ACS Spring, Apr 17-21, 2024.
• Osinuga, A., Cahoon, R., Cahoon, E., and Saha, R., “Embracing Variability in Dynamic Metabolic Modeling: Novel Insights into Arabidopsis thaliana’s Sphingolipid Biosynthesis” UNL Student Research Days, March 26, 2024.
• Shahreen, N., Thomas, VC., and Saha, R., “Rethinking Metabolic Strategies: Staphylococcus aureus‘s Unique Approach to Energy Generation”, UNL Student Research Days, March 26, 2024.
• Tabibian, M. and Saha, R., “Deciphering the Metabolic Signature of Lung Mast Cells in Health and Cancer: A Genome-Scale Metabolic Modeling and Machine Learning Study”, UNL Student Research Days, March 26, 2024.
• Razmpour, R. and Saha, R., “Exploring Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma (PDAC) through the Lens of Genome-Scale Metabolic Modeling and Machine Learning”, UNL Student Research Days, March 26, 2024.
• Shahreen, N., Thomas, VC., and Saha, R., “Rethinking Metabolic Strategies: Staphylococcus aureus‘s Unique Approach to Energy Generation”, 5th Annual UNL College of Engineering Graduate Student Symposium, February 23, 2024.
• Shahreen, N., Thomas, VC., and Saha, R., “Omics-Informed Metabolic Modeling of Staphylococcus Aureus Reveals Underlying Principles of Overflow Metabolism”, 3rd Annual UNL Microbiology Research Symposium, December 1, 2023.
• Razmpour, T. and Saha, R., “Identifying PDAC Diagnostic Biomarkers Utilizing Machine Learning Combined with Genome-Scale Metabolic Modeling”, BMES Annual Meeting, OCT 11-14, 2023
• Osinuga, A., Cahoon, R., Cahoon, E., and Saha, R., “Embracing Variability in Dynamic Metabolic Modeling: Novel Insights into Arabidopsis thaliana’s Sphingolipid Biosynthesis” Poster Presentation, Graduate Student Poster Sessions, UNL Student Research Days, March 26, 2024.
• Osinuga, A., Cahoon, R., Cahoon, E., and Saha, R., “Modeling Sphingolipid Metabolism and Prediction of orosomucoid (ORM) Proteins’ Regulatory Roles: ¹⁵N Stable Isotope Labeling Studies” Poster Presentation, Nebraska Plant Science Symposium, April 25, 2023.
• Osinuga, A., Cahoon, R., Cahoon, E., and Saha, R., “Modeling Sphingolipid Metabolism and Prediction of orosomucoid (ORM) Proteins’ Regulatory Roles: ¹⁵N Stable Isotope Labeling Studies” Poster Presentation, Graduate Student Poster Sessions, UNL Student Research Days, March 28, 2023.
• Shahreen, N., Thomas, VC., and Saha, R., “Omics-Informed Metabolic Modeling of Staphylococcus Aureus Reveals Underlying Principles of Overflow Metabolism”, UNL Student Research Days, March 28, 2023.
• Osinuga, A., Cahoon, R., Cahoon, E., and Saha, R., “Sphingolipid Metabolism Modeling and Prediction of orosomucoid (ORM) Proteins’ Regulatory Roles: N¹⁵ Stable Isotope Labeling Studies” Poster Presentation, 4^th Annual UNL College of Engineering Graduate Student Symposium, February 24, 2023.
• Shahreen, N., Thomas, VC., and Saha, R., “Omics-Informed Metabolic Modeling of Staphylococcus Aureus Reveals Underlying Principles of Overflow Metabolism”, 4th Annual UNL College of Engineering Graduate Student Symposium, February 24, 2023.
• Osinuga, A., Cahoon, R., Cahoon, E., and Saha, R., “Understanding ORM Protein Regulation via Sphingolipid Metabolism Modeling: N¹⁵ Stable isotope Labeling Studies” Poster Presentation, UNL Center for Plant Science Innovation, Plant Science Retreat, November 10-11, 2022.
• Chowdhury, N., Schroeder, W., Zhang, D., Simons, M., Hirel, B., Cahoon, E., Maranas, C., and Saha, R., “Stress Response Study of Zea mays by Incorporating Omics Information into its Genome-Scale Metabolic Model”, COnstraint-Based Reconstruction and Analysis (COBRA) Conference, virtual, March 1-2, 2021.
• Islam, M. M., Thomas, V. C., and Saha, R., “Optimization-Based Analysis of Comparative Metabolomic Data Identifies Regulatory Mechanisms in Staphylococcus Aureus Mutants”, COnstraint-Based Reconstruction and Analysis (COBRA) Conference, virtual, March 1-2, 2021.
• Schroeder, W. L., and Saha, R., “Introducing and Optimization- and Explicit Runge-Kutta- Based Approach to Perform Dynamic Flux Balance Analysis”, COnstraint-Based Reconstruction and Analysis (COBRA) Conference, virtual, March 1-2, 2021.
• Alsiyabi, A., Brown, B., Immethun, C., and Saha R., “Metabolic Modeling and Fluorometry Elucidate the Interplay between Electron Sources and Sinks in a Purple Non-Sulfur Bacterium”, COnstraint-Based Reconstruction and Analysis (COBRA) Conference, virtual, March 1-2, 2021.
• Chowdhury, N., and Saha, R., “Stress Response Study of Zea mays by Incorporating Omics Information into its Genome-Scale Metabolic Model”, College of Engineering Graduate Research Symposium, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, February 26, 2021.
• Brown, B., and Saha, R., “Hydrogen Biofuel Production from a Versatile Bacterium Using Agricultural Waste.”, 3in 5 pitch competition, College of Engineering Graduate Research Symposium, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, February 26, 2021.
• Kathol, M., Immethun, C., and Saha, R., “Investigating the relaxase behavior and replication functionality of the mobilization protein mobV in the plasmid pBBR1”, 3in 5 pitch competition, College of Engineering Graduate Research Symposium, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, February 26, 2021.
• Islam, M. M., “Optimization in Biological Systems: The Legacy of Engineering Complex Processes”, College of Engineering Graduate Research Symposium, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, February 26, 2021
• Schroeder, W. L., Harris, S. D., and Saha, R., “EuGeneCiD: Toward and Optimization-Based Tool for Synthetic Biology Design”. Poster Presentation. Central US Synthetic Biology Workshop, Online and Video Poster Presentation. Sept. 10, 2020.
• Schroeder, W. L., Harris, S. D., and Saha, R., “Computation-driven mechanistic understanding of the cellular cost and role of defensive pigment production in a polyextremotolerant fungus”. Poster Presentation. Engineering Graduate Student Symposium, Lincoln, NE, USA. Feb. 21, 2020.
• Islam, M. M., Sandhu, J., Walia, H, and Saha, R., “MiReN: An Optimization Tool for Data-Driven Discovery of Global Regulatory Phenomena During Heat Stress in Rice Seed”, Midwest Big Data hub (MBDH) All-hands meeting, Chicago, IL, October 29-30, 2019
• Immethun, C., Changa, T., and Saha, R., “Engineering a purple non-sulfur bacterium to expand symbiotic nitrogen fixation”, Plant Science Symposium, Lincoln, NE, October 17-18, 2019
• [First Place prize winner] Islam, M. M., Sandhu, J., Walia, H, and Saha, R., “MiReN: An Optimization Tool for Data-Driven Discovery of Global Regulatory Phenomena During Heat Stress in Rice Seed”, UNL Plant Sciences Symposium, Nebraska Innovation Campus, March 12, 2019
• Islam, M. M., Fernando, S. C., and Saha, R., “Virome modulate metabolic shiftws in the rumen microbiome: computational predictions based on genome-scale Metabolic Modeling”, 19th Annual Symposium in Virology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, September 6, 2019
• Islam, M. M., Sandhu, J., Walia, H, and Saha, R., “MiReN: An Optimization Tool for Data-Driven Discovery of Global Regulatory Phenomena Used to Elucidate the Heat Stress Response Mechanism in Rice Seed”, COnstraint-Based Reconstruction and Analysis (COBRA) Conference, Seattle, WA, October 14-16, 2018
• O’Neil, J., Al-Siyabi, A., and Saha, R., “Maximization of Succinic Acid Production on A. succinogenes via Genome-scale Metabolic Modeling”, UNL summer Research Fair, Lincoln, NE, 2018
• Daggumati, S. R., Le, T., Islam, M. M., and Saha, R., “Utilizing Methane-Oxidizing Microbes to Mitigate Trichloroethylene in Soil and Groundwater”, UNL summer Research Fair, Lincoln, NE, 2018
• Maaliao, C., Islam, M. M., and Saha, R., “Understanding Stress Response Mechanism in Rice Seed”, UNL summer Research Fair, Lincoln, NE, 2018
• Islam, M. M., Thomas, V. C., and Saha, R., “Towards Data-driven Discovery of Novel Therapeutic Targets through Metabolic Modeling of Staphylococcus aureus”, UNL Spring Research Fair, Lincoln, NE, April 10, 2018
• Saha, R., “Implementing Peer Instruction in a Flipped Class: Perspectives from Chemical Engineering Computation”, Summer School for Chemical Engineering Faculty, American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE),  North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, July 29-August 3 2017.
• Le, T., Daggumati, S. R., Islam, M. M., and Saha, R., “Constructing a Genome-Scale Metabolic Modle for Methylobacter tundripaludum“, Fall Research Fair 2017, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, August 9, 2017.
• [Best Poster Award winner] Buchanan, K., Schroeder, W., Islam, M. M., and Saha, R., “Computational Modeling of Actinobacillus succinogenes to Optimize Production of Succinic Acid”, Fall Research Fair 2017, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, August 9, 2017.
• Islam, M. M., Sandhu, J., Walia, H., and Saha, R., “Thermal Stress on Plants: Insights About Global Regulation and Metabolic Model Development”, Nebraska Research and Innovation Conference on Predictive Crop Design: Genome to Phenome, Lincoln, NE, April 6-7, 2017.
• Schroeder, W., and Saha, R., “k-athaliana-toward a Multi-tissue Kinetic Model of Arabidopsis thaliana”, Nebraska Research and Innovation Conference on Predictive Crop Design: Genome to Phenome, Lincoln, NE, April 6-7, 2017.
• Islam, M. M., Saha, R., “Modeling of metabolsim: From Individual Microorganism to Whole-Plant and Multi-species Consortia”, UNL Plant Science Retreat, Nebraska City, NE, October 14-15, 2016.
• Yu, J., Saha, R., Berla, B.M., Mueller, T.J., Kumar, A., Simons, M., Khodayari, A., Whitney Hollinshead, W., Abernathy, M., He, L., Tang, Y.J., Maranas, C.D., Pakrasi, H.B., “Systems Level Study of a Novel Fast-Growing Cyanobacterial Strain for Next- Generation Biofuel Production”, DOE genomic sciences meeting, Tysons, VA, Feb 22-25, 2015.
• Saha, R., Simons, M., Kumar, A., Guillard, L., Hirel, B and Maranas, C.D., “Assessing the Metabolic Impact of Nitrogen Availability using a Compartmentalized Maize Leaf Genome-Scale Model”, 3rd COBRA meeting, Winter Green, VA, May 20-23, 2014.
• Saha, R., Simons, M., Islam, M.M., Zomorrodi, A.R., Hirel, B and Maranas, C.D., “Metabolic modeling of multi tissue and multi organism systems”, DOE genomic sciences meeting, Crystal City, VA, Feb 10-12, 2014.
• Saha, R., Mueller, T.J., Berla, B.M., Pakrasi, B.M. and Marans, C.D., “Construction of metabolic models for a family of cyanobacteria”, DOE genomic sciences meeting, Bethesda, MD, Feb 24-27, 2013.
• Saha, R., Berla, B.M., Mueller, T.J., Elvitigala, T., Page, L.E., Pakrasi, H.B. and Maranas, C.D., “Contrasting the metabolic capabilities of Cyanothece sp. ATCC 51142 and Synechocystis sp. PCC6803”, DOE genomic sciences meeting, Bethesda, MD, Feb 26-29, 2012.
• Saha, R., Suthers, P.F. and Maranas, C.D., “Zea mays iRS1563: A Comprehensive Genome-Scale Metabolic Reconstruction of Maize Metabolism”, DOE genomic sciences meeting, Crystal City, VA, Apr 10-13, 2011.
• Saha, R., Suresh, S., Park, W., Lee, D.Y. and Karimi, I.A., “Microbial fuel cell in perspective of strain improvement and mediator selection”, Joint third AOHUPO and fourth structural biology and functional genomics conference, Singapore, Dec 4-7, 2006.
• Saha, R., Park, W, Lee., D.Y. and Karimi, D.Y., “Comparison on web-based simulation tools of biochemical and cellular model in systems biology”, Annual graduate students’ symposium, NUS, Singapore, Sep 24, 2006.