Area of research
Molecular Biology · Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Research interest
Research interests include Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction, Iron oxide chemistry and applications, Phosphorus and nutrient management, and Biofuel production and bioconversion.
Toward industrial C8 production: oxygen intrusion drives renewable <i>n</i> -caprylate production from ethanol and acetate <i>via</i> intermediate metabolite production
Mechanisms of Polyethylene Terephthalate Pellet Fragmentation into Nanoplastics and Assimilable Carbons by Wastewater <i>Comamonas</i>
Disproportionate Carbon Dioxide Efflux in Bacterial Metabolic Pathways for Different Organic Substrates Leads to Variable Contribution to Carbon-Use Efficiency
Deconstructing synthetic biology across scales: a conceptual approach for training synthetic biologists
Complex regulation in a Comamonas platform for diverse aromatic carbon metabolism
Physiological and evolutionary contexts of a new symbiotic species from the nitrogen-recycling gut community of turtle ants
Strategies of organic phosphorus recycling by soil bacteria: acquisition, metabolism, and regulation
Lithium isotope behaviour during basalt weathering experiments amended with organic acids
Probing the Fate of Different Structures of Beta-Lactam Antibiotics: Hydrolysis, Mineral Capture, and Influence of Organic Matter
Analogous Metabolic Decoupling in Pseudomonas putida and Comamonas testosteroni Implies Energetic Bypass to Facilitate Gluconeogenic Growth
Molecular Coordination, Structure, and Stability of Metal-Polyphosphate Complexes Resolved by Molecular Modeling and X-ray Scattering: Structural Insights on the Biological Fate of Polyphosphate
Hierarchical routing in carbon metabolism favors iron-scavenging strategy in iron-deficient soil <i>Pseudomonas</i> species
Multi-omics analysis unravels a segregated metabolic flux network that tunes co-utilization of sugar and aromatic carbons in Pseudomonas putida
Lead Solubility and Mineral Structures of Coprecipitated Lead/Calcium Oxalates
Degradation and metabolism of synthetic plastics and associated products by<i>Pseudomonas</i>sp.: capabilities and challenges
Ethanol production in syngas-fermenting Clostridium ljungdahlii is controlled by thermodynamics rather than by enzyme expression
Enhanced interlayer trapping of a tetracycline antibiotic within montmorillonite layers in the presence of Ca and Mg
Collaborative Research: Merging Metabolomics and Isotope Biogeochemistry as a New Approach for Quantitative Flux Analysis of Environmental Carbon Metabolism
CAS-MNP: Molecular Probing Surface Reactivity Dynamics of Native versus Photo-Oxidized Microplastics and Nanoplastics in Environmental Aqueous Media
Elucidating and Computing Metabolic Networks for Co-Valorization of Cellulose and Lignin Derivatives
CAREER: Metabolomics-Enabled Approaches to Advance Characterization of Organic Matter Trapping in Natural and Engineered Matrices
CAREER: Metabolomics-Enabled Approaches to Advance Characterization of Organic Matter Trapping in Natural and Engineered Matrices
Collaborative Proposal: INFEWS N/P/H2O: Supramolecular Recognition in the Biocatalytic Transformation of Organic Phosphorus-Containing Environmental Matrices
EAGER: A Novel Approach for Molecular-Scale Probing of Hierarchical Organic Assemblies at Mineral Interfaces
Early Career: Upgrade of an X-ray Diffractometer with Capillary & Humidity-Temperature Stages for Suspension & Hydrated Powder Measurements, and Outreach for Geochemistry Research
Research Starter Grant: Metabolic Pathways in Bacterial Utilization of Hemicellulosic Sugars
NSF Minority Postdoctoral Research Fellowship for FY2008