News and Updates
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Celebrating 2024 at group holiday party!
Thanks to thanks to all for attending the Chundawat group holiday party. Some of us were proudly donning our ugly sweaters! Hope you all have a relaxing and healthy winter … Read More
Congratulations Dr. Mohit Kumar on defending his PhD!
Congratulations to Mohit on successfully defending his PhD dissertation today. Here are some pictures from his defense today and the holiday/after party.
Welcoming new PhD students to Chundawat Lab!
We would like to (officially) welcome Rebecca Garcia and Rahul Thakur as the newest PhD student members of the Chundawat lab. They were both assigned this month by the CBE … Read More
Single-molecule studies unravel new mechanism of cellulases
Excited to share new collaborative paper between Lang-Chundawat lab on studying processive cellulase processivity has just been published online in Biotechnology for Biofuels journal. Led by Maddie Johnson from Lang … Read More
Daily Targum and Rutgers Today Articles on SaBRe project
Check out Daily Targum article citing PhD students Rebecca Garcia and Austin Seamann working on the SaBRe project. Also, check out Rutgers Today magazine interview by Prof. Chundawat on the … Read More
Iris Brody presents at SUPER
Iris Brody is an undergraduate supported by Project SUPER, offered by the Douglass Residential College at Rutgers, to work in Chundawat lab alongside postdoc Aditya Narvekar. Her project focuses on … Read More
Fall potluck party and Antonio’s PhD Proposal Exam Celebrations!
Congratulations to Antonio De Chellis on passing his PhD proposal exam! The group also celebrated his achievement during the fall semester kickoff potluck party!
Dr. Chundawat’s Impressions about Recent Interns
I have had the pleasure of hosting several talented high school, undergraduate, and graduate students as visiting research interns in my lab the past year/summer. In addition, we also trained … Read More
ACS SEED High School Research Interns
Two high school students (Ms. Nicole Onuoha and Ms. Genesis Martinez) worked in the Chundawat Lab this summer for the past six weeks. Nicole worked under Dr. Aditya Narvekar while … Read More
Exciting new collaborative preprint on visualizing cellulose fibrils biosynthesis and assembly in real time
Excited about this collaborative preprint that had critical contributions from my previous lab members Dharanidaran Jayachandran and Mohammed Irfan, who alongside the Lee and Lam lab members at Rutgers have … Read More
Sargassum Biorefinery (SaBRe) Center Funded by Schmidt Foundation
Exciting news as we receive funding to kickoff the Virtual Institute on Feedstocks of the Future (VIFF). The VIFF initiative is funded by Schmidt Sciences and Foundation for Food & … Read More
Chundawat Group Summer Lunch Party at Chef Tan!
Chundawat group members had lunch today at Chef Tan restaurant in Highland Park! Here is a group picture from everyone at the restaurant.
Austin Seamann Awarded Prestigious PhD Fellowship
Congratulations to Austin Seamann on being selected as a predoctoral fellow in the Rutgers PhD Training Program in Biotechnology! His PhD journey started last fall after he joined the Rutgers … Read More
SriVidya leads gut health and carbohydrate-active enzymes outreach event for school students
Congratulations to Sri Vidya Tallavajhula, Sophia Fernandez, and Arushi Biswas, on successfully planning and launching Chundawat Lab’s first hands-on demo activity on enzymes relevant to gut health! The activity was … Read More
Dr. Chundawat attends the annual NIIMBL meeting
Back this week from Washington DC after attending the NIIMBL | The National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals annual meeting where I was invited as the PI to present … Read More
Bhargava and team publish paper in special issue of Frontiers in Energy Research
Congratulations to Vijayendra Bhargava Nemmaru, Jenna Douglass, Antonio De Chellis, Srivatsan Shankar, Alina Thokkadam, Allan Wang, as well as our long-time collaborator at NREL (John Yarbrough), on publishing a research … Read More
Markus and DJ hooded at the convocation by Dr. Chundawat
Congratulations to my former PhD students Markus Hackl, PhD and Dharanidaran Jayachandran, PhD who were officially hooded today at the Rutgers University 2024 convocation and PhD hooding ceremony. It was … Read More
Undergraduate students win multiple awards at CBE annual research symposium
Congratulations to several Chundawat group undergraduate students on winning awards at the CBE Annual Undergraduate Research Poster competition. Reena Lubowski won first place (mentored by Antonio DeChellis), Minjal Baheti and … Read More
Chundawat and Hildebrandt Granted USDA/Sungrant Award
PI Shishir Chundawat will lead a team of researchers to develop integrated technologies for conversion of cellulosic biomass and biomass-derived CO2 to fuels/chemicals. The project was selected for funding by … Read More
Chundawat group members received awards to attend annual BPS meeting
Antonio DeChellis and Mohit Kumar received the Rutgers RCEI and SGS travel awards for the Annual Biophysical Society (BPS) Meeting in Feb 2024 this year. Ryan Murphy and Srividya T. … Read More
Antonio and team publish cellulase supercharging paper in ACS journal!
Congratulations to my Rutgers University PhD student Antonio De Chellis who led the discovery of novel supercharged enzymes designed for more efficient conversion of cellulosic biomass to fermentable sugars. My … Read More
Welcome to new group members in fall 2023!
This fall we welcomed several new group members who joined the lab as full-time students and visiting scholars. We welcome Mr. Austin Seamann. Austin is a PhD student in the … Read More
Visitors to Chundawat Lab this summer/fall!
We had several visitors at the Chundawat lab in summer/fall 2023. Thanks to Prof. Anurag Rathore from IIT Delhi (India) for visiting our research lab and engaging with several of … Read More
DJ defends his PhD and Wins Outstanding Research Award at Gordon Conference!
Congratulations to Dharanidaran Jayachandran (DJ) on successfully defending his PhD dissertation in Fall 2023. DJ’s PhD was focussed on developing novel imaging protein probes and glycosyl transferases engineering toolkit to … Read More
Roadtrip with group to Gordon conference on CAZymes!
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
Welcome to new group members in summer 2023!
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
Markus defends his PhD!
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
Shoili Banerjee wins Senior Researcher-Scholar Award
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
Aron Gyorgypal defends PhD & presents multiple invited talks!
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
Chundawat Elected to NIIMBL Technical Activities Committee
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
Chundawat Receives Award for Studying Glycosynthase Enzymes
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
DJ wins first place at poster competition!
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
Markus Hackl publishes his research work in PNAS
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 students back after completing exciting internship experiences!
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
Antonio De Chellis Awarded Prestigious PhD Fellowship
Congratulations to Antonio De Chellis on being selected as a predoctoral fellow in the Rutgers PhD Training Program in Biotechnology (https://biotechnology.rutgers.edu). He completed his MS thesis defense and PhD preliminary examination … Read More
Dr. Chundawat to lead NIIMBL biomanufacturing team
Rutgers team, led by PI Chundawat, has been selected by the National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals (NIIMBL) as part of the Institute’s Project Call 5.2. Chundawat-led team will develop … Read More
Congratulations to Aron Gyorgypal on developing an automated monitoring toolkit
Congratulations to my Ph.D. student (Aron Gyorgypal) on developing an automated monitoring toolkit and workflow that speeds up analysis for the production of glycosylated biologics. The technology will be made … Read More
Work from the Lab Featured on Analytical Chemistry Cover
Work from the Chundawat Lab on an integrated platform, N-GLYcanyzer, for rapid mAb glycosylation monitoring has been featured on the Analytical Chemistry cover. Book Link: Link Article Link: Link