Road trip with several group students headed out to the Gordon Research Conference on ‘Carbohydrate-Active Enzymes for Glycan Conversions’! This years theme is CAZymes for Environmental Sustainability and Human Health. See … Read More
This summer we welcomed several new group members who joined the lab as full-time students and visiting scholars. Had the pleasure of hosting Mr. Gokulnath G, a talented 4th-year Chemical … Read More
Congratulations to Markus Hackl on successfully defending his PhD dissertation in April 2023. Markus’s PhD was focussed on developing single-molecule methods to measure unbinding forces that help us better understand … Read More
Congratulations to Shoili Banerjee on being awarded the Rutgers CBE Department Senior Researcher-Scholar Award. Dr. Chundawat had the pleasure of presenting this award to Shoili at the annual CBE Awards & … Read More
Congratulations to Aron Gyorgypal on successfully defending his PhD dissertation this month. Aron’s PhD was focussed on development of real-time N-glycosylation monitoring tools to enable advanced biologics manufacturing. See tweet … Read More
Dr. Chundawat has been elected by the National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals (NIIMBL) Technical Activities Committee for a 1 year period starting in March 2023. The Technical Activities Committee … Read More
Dr. Chundawat has received a sub-award from the University of Michigan (sponsored by the National Science Foundation) to engineer and characterize novel glycosynthase enzymes involved in synthesis of prebiotic human … Read More
Congratulations to DJ (Dharanidaran Jayachandran) on winning first place at the Rutgers BME annual research symposium today for his work on engineering membrane reconstituted glycosyl transferases for polysaccharides biosynthesis. Here is a … Read More
PhD student Markus Hackl from the Chundawat group has published a research paper titled ‘Acoustic force spectroscopy reveals subtle differences in cellulose unbinding behavior of carbohydrate-binding modules‘ in PNAS journal this week. … Read More
PhD student Dharanidaran Jayachandran (DJ) and Aron Gyorgypal spent their summer this year completing exciting research as part of their internship training experiences. DJ was a summer research intern at … Read More