Vikas Upadhyay successfully defended his PhD, Congratulations!

Austin Hartley was selected to participate in an NIH/NIGMS-sponsored Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Institutional Research Training (T32) program at Penn State entitled “Molecular machines mechanism and structure (M3S)”.

Eric Mooney received a BMMB Travel Award 2 to attend the ASM Microbe conference, in LA, and present a poster on his work supported by CABBI to develop a resource balance allocation model of Rhodotorula toruloides.

Haixing Piao, PSU undergraduate in Chemical Engineering, received his BS degree. Congratulations! He'll be joining the Maranas group as a graduate student this fall.

Veda Sheersh Boorla successfully defended his PhD, Congratulations!

Dr. Sanjeev Dahal joins the Maranas group as a postdoctoral scholar. Welcome! He'll be joining CBI and also working on a new DARPA project.

Somtirtha Santra, a graduate student in Chemical Engineering, joins the Maranas group. Welcome!

Graduate student Veda Sheersh Boorla won Best Poster Award at Biochemical and Molecular Engineering XXIII. Way to go!

Congratulations to Postdoctoral Scholar Wheaton Schroeder for accepting a faculty position beginning in August at Washington State University! Best wishes for you career!

Austin Delanau Hartley, Tommy Willis, and Roghaye Mohammadbeygi, graduate students in Chemical Engineering, join the Maranas group. Welcome!

Vikas Upadhyay and Honang Dihn received travel awards to attend Metabolic Engineering 15, in Singapore, and present posters on their research.

Eric Mooney, a graduate student in Biochemistry, Microbiology and Molecular Biology (BMMB), joins the Maranas group. Welcome!

Hoang Dinh successfully defended his PhD, Congratulations!

Mayank Gupta, a graduate student in Chemical Engineering, joins the Maranas group. Welcome!

Congratulations to alumnus Ratul Chowdhury for accepting a faculty position beginning in August at Iowa State University! Best wishes for you career!

Debolina Sarkar successfully defended her PhD, Congratulations!

Charles Foster successfully defended his PhD, Congratulations!

A deep-learning tool by Dr. Chen Chen (postdoc), Veda Boorla (graduate student), and Dr. Ratul Chowdhury (group alumnus) predicting binding affinity of the SARS-CoV-2 spike proteins to human receptors which can predict mutations leading to increase infectivity is featured in Penn State News! Read more

Kevin Glass, a graduate student in Chemical Engineering, and Dr. Wheaton L. Schroeder, a postdoctoral scholar, join the Maranas group. Welcome!

Group alumnus Professor Rajib Saha recieves a 5-year $1.83M award to develop a systems-level integrative metabolic framework to dissect the dynamic metabolic changes associated with both immunometabolic responses to pathogens and metabolic reprogramming associated with certain cancers. Congratulations! Read more

Congratulations to our alumnus Dr. Anthony Burgard for winning a Gold Award for Excellence in Government from the Pittsburgh Federal Executive Board for Outstanding Contribution to Science!

Veda Sheersh Boorla won the award for best performance in Qualifying examination. Congratulations!

Congratulations to Professor Rajib Saha for being named the 2020 Early Career Alumni Recognition Award recipient by the Penn State Department of Chemical Engineering! Read more

Our recent graduate Dr. Ratul Chowdhury, who is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School, has been featured in Penn State Alumni Spotlight. Read more

We are very excited to share that our lab alumnus Professor Rajib Saha was recently awarded the prestigious NSF CAREER for dissecting a metabolically versatile non-model bacterium's lignin-derived compound catabolism. Read more

Congratulations to our lab alumnus Matthew Allan for being awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! Matthew Allan is now a PhD student at MIT Department of Biological Engineering.

Dr. Maranas has been named the recipient of the 2020 International Metabolic Engineering Award to recognize his outstanding contribution to the field of Metabolic Engineering! Dr. Maranas will give his award lecture at the Metabolic Engineering 13 conference in Hawaii.

The Maranas Goups joined CABBI’s Conversion Team and will lead the effort to build genome-scale models for two yeasts, Rhodosporidium toruloides and Issatchenkia orientalis, as part of CABBI’s Conversion Theme. Read more

Ratul Chowdhury successfully defended his PhD, Congratulations!

Ratul Chowdhury was awarded the 2019 Professor Dibakar Bhattacharyya Research Excellence Award in Separations Divisions for his work on novel artificial channels by American Institute Of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), Orlando, FL. The work has been accepted in Nature Nanotechnology. Congratulations!

Satyakam Dash successfully defended his PhD, Congratulations!

Saratram Gopalakrishnan successfully defended his PhD, Congratulations!

PoreDesigner work for precise angstrom scale separation gets featured in Penn State News and Phys.Org.

Ratul Chowdhury won the North American Membrane Society Young Membrane Scientist Award 2019 and is featured in Penn State ChE news for his PoreDesigner work published in Nature Communications. Congratulations! Read more

Lin Wang won the 2019 McWhirter Fellowship in Chemical Engineering. Congratulations! Read more in Penn State ChE news

Our latest paper uncovering the molecular basis of rapid growth in cyanobacteria made it to the cover of PNAS! Read more

Soodabeh Ghaffari and Mahdi Khajeh, graduate students in Chemical Engineering, joined the Maranas group. Welcome!

Maranas Lab reunion at COBRA 2018!

Ratul Chowdhury won the best poster at the Gordon Research Conference, Membranes, 2018 held in New London, NH, for his work "PoreDesigner: Tuning selectivity and hydraulic permeability in water channel proteins". Congratulations!

The International Conference on Microbiome Engineering (ICME2018) will be held in Boston, MA. November 4-6, 2018. Invited speakers have been announced and registration is now open. Please mark your calendars and submit your abstracts! Read more

Ratul Chowdhury won the best presentation of Session "Protein Engineering III: Rational and Computational Techniques" at AIChE 2017 for his work "Systematic redesign of E. coli water chanel protein for desired pore size". Congratulations!

Matt Grisewood successfully defended his PhD, Congratulations!

Hoang Dinh, a graduate student in Chemical Engineering, joined the Maranas group. Welcome!

John Irudayaraj, a PostDoc in Chemical Engineering, joined the Maranas group. Welcome!

Chiam Yu Ng successfully defended her PhD, Congratulations!

Margaret (Simons) Senftle successfully defended her PhD, Congratulations!

Siu Hung Joshua Chan won the best poster at the Microbiome Research Networking Event for his work, "Metabolic modeling of the gut microbiome". Congratulations, Joshua!

Anupam Chowdhury, Thomas Mueller, Akhil Kumar, and Ali Khodayari successfully defended their PhDs, Congratulations!

Ali Khodayari and Costas D. Maranas published the genome-scale kinetic model of E. coli in Nature Communications as featured in Penn State News. Congratulations!

Charles Foster and Debolina Sarkar, graduate students in Chemical Engineering join the Maranas group. Welcome!

Saratram Gopalakrishnan won the Department of Chemical Engineering Best Paper Award. Congratulations!

With incredible sadness we learned of the passing of our intellectual father, Christodoulos A. Floudas. Our deepest condolences go to his family. He left behind a legacy of academic excellence, thoughtful mentoring and unwavering support for his students.

Costas D. Maranas received the 2016 Penn State Engineering Alumni Society (PSEAS) Premier Research Award for his outstanding contributions to scientific knowledge through research. Congratulations! Read more