Congratulations to Antonio De Chellis on being selected as a predoctoral fellow in the Rutgers PhD Training Program in Biotechnology (biotechnology.rutgers.edu). He completed his MS thesis defense and PhD preliminary examination earlier in 2022 and has now begun his PhD research workin the Chundawat Lab starting in Fall 2022. Antonio’s research is focussed on development of novel engineered industrial-grade biocatalysts for biopolymers deconstruction.