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==Recent Lab News==
==Recent Lab News==
'''3/2015'''    '''Professor Banta''' gave a talk at the 249th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in Denver, CO entitled "Engineering the chemolithoautotroph Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans for chemical and fuel production"  '''Professor Banta''' is the currently the Past Chair for the BIOT division of ACS.
'''2/2015'''    '''Professor Banta''' gave a research seminar entitled "Engineering the Beta Roll peptide to participate in useful biomolecular interactions" in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
'''2/2015'''    Xiaozheng Li and '''Professor Banta''' presented a poster entitled "Co-Generation of Fuels During Copper Bioleaching" at the 2015 ARPA-E Annual Energy Innovation Summit in Washington D.C.
'''1/2015'''    The Banta Lab is pleased to welcome a new postdoctoral fellow into the lab group. '''Dr. Kusum Solanki''' earned a PhD in Chemistry from IIT Delhi and recently was a postdoctoral fellow in the Chemical and Biological Engineering Department at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute .  Welcome aboard Kusum!
'''1/2015'''    '''Professor Banta''' and his collaborator Alan West along with Ginkgo Bioworks (Boston, MA) have been awarded a new ARPA-E Open Ideas Award entitled "Co-Generation of Fuels During Copper Bioleaching"
'''12/2014'''    A paper entitled “Genetic manipulation of outer membrane permeability: Generating porous heterogeneous catalyst analogs in Escherichia coli” by Patel, Park and Banta was published in ''ACS Synthetic Biology''.
'''11/2014'''    A paper entitled “Engineering Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans growth media for enhanced electrochemical processing” by Li, Mercado, Berlinger, Banta and West was published in ''AIChE Journal''.
'''11/2014'''    The Banta group was very active at the 2014 American Institute of Chemical Engineers Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA. '''Professor Banta''' gave an invited plenary talk entitled "Engineering the Protein/Nanomaterial Interface for Biosensors and Biofuel Cells".  '''Harun Ozbakir''' gave a talk entitled "Towards the Development of an Electrochemical Biosensor for the Detection of Vitamin D".  '''Xiaozheng Li''' gave a talk entitled "Engineering of Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans for Application in a Novel Non-Photosynthetic Electrofuel Production Platform".  '''Kristen Garcia''' gave a talk entitled "Design of Self-Assembling Biocomplexes for Bio/Nano-Device Integration".  And '''Beyza Bulutoglu''' gave a talk entitled "Engineering and Characterization of Artificial Metabolons from the TCA Cycle".
'''10/2014'''    A paper entitled “Doubling the cross-linking interface of a rationally-designed beta roll peptide for calcium-dependent proteinaceous hydrogel formation” by  Dooley, Bulutoglu and Banta was published in ''Biomacromolecules''.
'''10/2014'''    '''Professor Banta''' gave a research seminar entitled "Engineering the Beta Roll peptide to participate in useful biomolecular interactions" in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA.
'''10/2014'''    The Banta Lab is pleased to welcome another new graduate student into the lab group. '''Walaa Abdallah''' has joined the research group this semester.
'''5/2012'''    '''Professor Banta''' gave two talks at the 226th meeting of the Electrochemical Society in Cancun, Mexico.  The first was entitled "Adventures in the engineering of the small laccase (SLAC) from for incorporation into enzymatic biofuel cell cathodes" and the second was entitled "Electrofuel production using genetically engineered Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans cells and iron as a redox mediator".
'''9/2014'''    A paper entitled “Addition of citrate to Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans cultures enables precipitate-free growth at elevated pH and reduces ferric inhibition” by  Li, Mercado, Kernan, West and Banta was published in ''Biotechnology and Bioengineering''.


'''8/2014'''    '''Professor Banta''' gave a talk entitled "A designed calcium-responsive peptide domain for non-chromatographic protein purification" at the Bioprocessing Summit in Boston, MA
'''8/2014'''    '''Professor Banta''' gave a talk entitled "A designed calcium-responsive peptide domain for non-chromatographic protein purification" at the Bioprocessing Summit in Boston, MA
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'''4/2014'''    '''Professor Banta''' and his collaborator Ron Koder at the City College of New York have received a new 3-year grant from the National Science Foundation entitled "Simplifying metabolic pathways by wiring redox proteins together"
'''4/2014'''    '''Professor Banta''' and his collaborator Ron Koder at the City College of New York have received a new 3-year grant from the National Science Foundation entitled "Simplifying metabolic pathways by wiring redox proteins together"


'''4/2014'''    '''Professor Banta''' gave at talk at the 40th Annual NorthEast Bioengineering Conference in Boston MA entitled "Engineering of Functional Proteinaceous Hydrogels for Biotechnology Applications".  He also Co-chaired the Biomolecular Engineering Session at the Meeting.
'''4/2014'''    '''Professor Banta''' gave a talk at the 40th Annual NorthEast Bioengineering Conference in Boston MA entitled "Engineering of Functional Proteinaceous Hydrogels for Biotechnology Applications".  He also Co-chaired the Biomolecular Engineering Session at the Meeting.


'''3/2014'''    '''Professor Banta''' gave at talk 247th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in Dallas TX entitled "Engineering Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans for electrofuel production"  '''Professor Banta'''  is the currently the Chair for the BIOT division of ACS.
'''3/2014'''    '''Professor Banta''' gave a talk 247th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in Dallas TX entitled "Engineering Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans for electrofuel production"  '''Professor Banta'''  is the currently the Chair for the BIOT division of ACS.


'''3/2014'''    A paper entitled “Surface display of small peptides on Escherichia coli for enhanced calcite (CaCO3) precipitation rates” by  Patel, Park and Banta was published in ''Peptide Science''.
'''3/2014'''    A paper entitled “Surface display of small peptides on Escherichia coli for enhanced calcite (CaCO3) precipitation rates” by  Patel, Park and Banta was published in ''Peptide Science''.

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