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Brandi J. Brown

Co-advised by Professor Mark Wilkins at Biological Systems EngineeringBiological Systems Engineering University of Nebraska-LincolnEmail: bbrown25@husker.unl.eduPhone: 678-788-0211 Bridging the gap between the Biosystems Engineering and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering fields.  Current Position: N/A

Mohammad Mazharul Islam

Department of Chemical and Biomolecular EngineeringUniversity of Nebraska-LincolnEmail: mislam3@huskers.unl.edu Developing organism-scale and plant-scale metabolic models Modeling and designing natural and synthetic microbial communities Computational identification of novel therapeutic strategies Understanding stress response mechanism in plants Current Position: Research Associate at the University…

Wheaton Lane Schroeder

Department of Chemical and Biomolecular EngineeringEmail: wheaton@husker.unl.edu Developing organism-scale and plant-scale metabolic models Developing novel optimization-based tools for model development, curation, and analysis Developing novel optimization-based tools for designing and modeling genetic circuits Current Position: Post Doctoral Fellow at the Pennsylvania State…

Taity Changa

Postdoctoral Researcher Department of Chemical and Biomolecular EngineeringUniversity of Nebraska-LincolnEmail: tcchanga@gmail.com Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Joshua C. Bauman

Undergraduate Research AssistantSophomore, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular EngineeringUniversity of Nebraska-LincolnEmail:  joshua.bauman12@gmail.com Multi-tissue metabolic modeling of plants.

Noah Berkenwald

Undergraduate Research AssistantFreshmen, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular EngineeringUniversity of Nebraska-LincolnEmail:  nberkenwald2@huskers.unl.edu Characterization of the metabolically versatile bacteria Rhodopseudomonas palustris.

Cameron Gilley

Undergraduate Research AssistantSophomore, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular EngineeringUniversity of Nebraska-Lincoln Engineering Rhodopseudomonas palustris to convert lignin breakdown products, light, and carbon dioxide into biodegradable plastic.

Naomi Tsukada

Undergraduate Research AssistantSophomore, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular EngineeringUniversity of Nebraska-LincolnEmail: n.tsukada153@gmail.com Investigating the metabolism of Actinobactillus succinogenes  Developing a method to regulate gene expression using the inducible promoter P­BAD.

Leila Ba

Undergraduate Research Assistant (UCARE)Junior, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular EngineeringUniversity of Nebraska-LincolnEmail:  lba@huskers.unl.edu Research: Understand the stress response mechanisms in rice leaf tissue and develop non-intuitive genetic intervention strategies to ensure stress tolerance as well as to design robust high-yielding rice varieties.

Shardhat Reddy Daggumati

Undergraduate Research AssistantJunior, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular EngineeringUniversity of Nebraska-LincolnEmail: srd9998@gmail.comResearch: Constructing a genome-scale metabolic model for Methylobacter using a multifaceted approach.