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The primary goal of my thesis is to make E. coli electroactive. E. coli, being one of the most genetically tractable microbes, allows us to learn by building. Thus, I build metabolic pathways and electron transport chains inspired by naturally occurring electroactive microbes like Shewanella and Geobacter. This work sets a premise to establish a set of metabolic and respiratory design rules critical for building applications on biosensing, electrofermentation, and bioremediation.

Favorite Scientists: Herbert W. Boyer, Walter Bishop (Fictional)

Education: Ph.D. student, Systems, Synthetic and Physical Biology Program
M.Tech., Biotechnology and Biochemical Engineering, IIT, Kharagpur, India, 2017
B.Tech., Biotechnology and Biochemical Engineering, IIT, Kharagpur, India, 2017

   bkundu at rice dot edu