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Deepanwita Banerjee

Computational Biologist Research Scientist

Biological Systems and Engineering

  • BioEngineering & BioMedical Sciences

dbanerjee@lbl.gov

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Deepanwita Banerjee, PhD, is currently working on computationally driven host engineering for growth-coupled production of biofuels and bioproducts using the Product Substrate Pairing (PSP) approach. She uses computational strain optimization methods and genome scale metabolic models (GSM) to predict gene targets for engineering Pseudomonas putida. She is also working towards predicting PSP strategies in P. putida for utilization of lignocellulose derived carbon sources for bioenergy and biomanufacturing applications. The goal is to test and learn to better design robust and sustainable microbial hosts that maintain desirable phenotype across industrially relevant scales and conditions.

Deepanwita Banerjee’s research interests include understanding microbial systems for desirable phenotypes using multi-omics integrated systems biology approach. The applications are diverse ranging from improving production of value-added products or assessing microenvironments for a redox imbalance in vivo. She is also interested in understanding the emergent properties of a microbial hosts that are a result of the complex relationship between metabolism and transcriptional regulation. Currently there are digital resources available for model microbes that help inform such relationships but is lacking for non-model microbial systems. Genome-scale network reconstruction of a microbial system requires integration of more than one layer of biological networks (e.g., metabolism, regulation or signaling) as constraints to improve prediction power of such computational models for desirable phenotypes such as growth coupled production or maximum bioconversion of carbon sources.

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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.

Deepanwita Banerjee, Multi-faceted Modeler

July 18, 2022

When the COVID-19 pandemic required nearly everyone to stay at home and change their daily routines, Deepanwita Banerjee picked up a new hobby. She started building a miniature house. For Banerjee, who was born and raised in New Delhi, India, reusing items around the house was learned at an early age. This perspective was ingrained and continues to influence her life now — from her at-home dollhouse project to recycling genes to build more sustainable products in her role at Berkeley Lab.

Microbe “Rewiring” Technique Promises a Boom in Biomanufacturing

November 10, 2020

A new approach to modifying microbes’ metabolic processes will speed up production of innovative bio-based fuels, materials, and chemicals

Researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have achieved unprecedented success in modifying a microbe to efficiently produce a compound of interest using a computational model and CRISPR-based gene editing.

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