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Aindrila Mukhopadhyay

Science Deputy
Biological Engineer Senior Scientist

Biological Systems and Engineering

  • Biodesign

Secondary Affiliation: Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology

  • Molecular EcoSystems Biology

Building: 978, Room 4112
Mail Stop: 978-4121
Phone: (510) 495-2628
Fax: (510) 486-4252
AMukhopadhyay@lbl.gov
http://m-group.lbl.gov/

Research Interests

Dr. Mukhopadhyay’s work is focused on understanding membrane transport, signaling, stress response and tolerance phenotypes in microbial systems. She studies both engineered and environmental microbes. She utilizes a wide variety of microbiological, biochemical and systems biology tools to examine environmentally important organisms such as sulfate and metal reducing bacteria as well as cyanobacteria. She has specific interest in signaling mechanisms in novel non-model organisms like Pseudomonas stuzeri, Desulfovibrio vulgaris and Microcoleus vaginatus and has conducted detailed studies in model organisms such as Agrobacterium tumefaciens. She develops tools, and uses host engineering and protein engineering strategies, to improve the production of fuel and chemicals production, and conduct bioremediation, using model microbes such as Escherichia coli, Corynebacterium glutamicum and Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

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Speeding up Biomanufacturing with a Turnkey Framework

September 21, 2023

Researchers from the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) developed a new framework that reduces the time of developing novel bioproducts. This new workflow, called Product Substrate Pairing (PSP), has already shown great promise for engineering strains that can convert common bacterial food sources into target molecules.

Mukhopadhyay Named AAAS Fellow

January 31, 2023

Aindrila Mukhopadhyay, the science deputy for the Biosciences Area’s Biological Systems and Engineering (BSE) Division and vice president for Biofuels and Bioproducts at the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), has been recognized for her “exceptional contributions to the field of microbial engineering for the sustainable production of biofuels and bioproducts, particularly in optimizing and using functional genomics approaches.”

BSE Experiment Sent to International Space Station to Test DNA Storage Method

January 21, 2022

Scientists in the Biosciences Area are exploring the ability of cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, to store and protect DNA from damage in an experiment that recently traveled to the International Space Station National Laboratory onboard SpaceX CRS-24. 

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