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==Recent Lab News==
==Recent Lab News==
'''7/2015'''      '''Professor Banta''' presented an oral presentation at the Biochemical Engineering XIX meeting in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.  The talk was entitled "Fuels from the Wind or Rocks: Engineering the iron-oxidizing chemolithoautotroph Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans for biochemical production".
'''7/2015'''      '''Professor Scott Banta''' has been promoted to Professor
'''6/2015'''    '''Professor Banta''' gave an invited research seminar entitled "Engineering of the small laccase (SLAC) from Streptomyces coelicolor for incorporation into bioelectrochemical systems" at the Soft Nano Symposium as part of the Nanoscience Initiative of The CUNY Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC), New York, NY.
'''5/2015'''    A paper entitled “Selective biomolecular photocatalytic decomposition using peptide-modified TiO2 nanoparticles” by Smith, Amaya, Bredemeier, Banta and Cropek was published in ''Applied Catalysis B: Environmental''.
'''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'''    '''Kevin Dooley''' successfully defended his PhD thesis, the tenth from the Banta group.  His thesis was entitled "Engineering a Repeats-in-Toxin Scaffold for Stimulus-Responsive Biotechnology Applications".  Congratulations Dr. Dooley!
'''7/2014'''    '''Professor Banta''' and his collaborator Alan West have received a new 3-year grant from the National Science Foundation entitled "SusChEM: Long chain hydrocarbons from CO2 and electricity via genetic modification of a chemolithoautotrophic bacterium"
'''6/2014'''    '''Professor Banta''' gave a keynote talk entitled "Adventures in the Start-Up of an Electrofuels Company" at the Rutgers University Biotechnology Training Program Annual Mini-Symposium in Piscataway, NJ
'''6/2014'''    '''Professor Banta''' has received a new 3-year grant from the National Science Foundation entitled "Directed Evolution of peptides that bind protein targets only in the presence of calcium: A new tool for bioseparations"
'''5/2014'''    '''Professor Banta''' gave a talk entitled "Development of a directed evolution strategy to identify cell penetrating peptides (CPPs) for brain delivery" at the Biologics Formulation and Delivery Summit in Boston, MA
'''5/2014'''    '''Professor Banta''' and his collaborator Alan West have been awarded a PowerBridge Award to facilitate the launching of a new start-up company: '''Ironic Chemicals LLC'''
'''5/2014'''    '''Professor Banta''' and his collaborators Shelley Minteer (U of Utah), Matt Sigman (U of Utah), Plamen Atanassov (U of New Mexico), Scott Calabrese Barton (Michigan State) and Ian Wheeldon (UC Riverside) have been award a new 5-year MURI grant from the Army Research Office entitled "Bio-inspired Design of Adaptive Catalysis Cascades"
'''5/2014'''    Congratulations to Beyza Bulutoglu, Kristen Garcia and Harun Ozbakir for passing their thesis proposal defenses!
'''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 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 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''.
'''2/2014'''    Several new undergraduate researchers have joined the Banta lab.  Welcome aboard Jennifer, Asher and Christine!
'''1/2014'''    A paper entitled “Design of affinity peptides from natural protein ligands: A study of the cardiac troponin complex” by Chandra, Sankalia, Arcibal, Banta, Cropek and Karande was published in ''Peptide Science''.
'''1/2014'''    A paper entitled “An automated method for measuring the operational stability of biocatalysts with carbonic anhydrase activity” by Patel, Park and Banta was published in ''Biochemical Engineering Journal''.
'''1/2014'''    '''Professor Banta''' is the currently the Chair for the BIOT division of ACS.
'''12/2013'''    '''Tushar Patel''' successfully defended his PhD thesis, the ninth from the Banta group.  His thesis was entitled "Engineering heterogeneous biocatalysts".  Congratulations Dr. Patel!
'''12/2013'''    '''Professor Banta''' gave a research seminar entitled "Engineering the Beta Roll peptide to participate in useful biomolecular interactions" in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.
'''11/2013'''    '''Professor Banta''' gave an oral presentation entitled "Development of Functional Proteinaceous Hydrogels for Biotechnology Applications" at the 2013 American Institute of Chemical Engineers Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA.
'''10/2013'''    The Banta Lab is pleased to welcome another new graduate student into the lab group. '''Jingyang (Billy) Guan''' has joined the research group this semester.
'''10/2013'''    '''Professor Banta''' gave an invited online keynote presentation entitled "Exploiting Peptide Conformational Changes for Protein Purification” at The 2013 Biotechniques Virtual Symposium - Exploring The Modern Lab.
'''9/2013'''    '''Professor Banta''' was quoted in an article in ''Crain's NY'' about the group's Electrofuel project and the new PowerBridgeNY program.
'''7/2013'''    A paper entitled “Replacing antibodies: Engineering new binding proteins” by Banta, Dooley, and Shur was published in ''Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering''.
'''5/2013'''    A paper entitled “Periplasmic expression of carbonic anhydrase in Escherichia coli: A whole-cell biocatalyst for CO2 hydration” by Patel, Park and Banta was published in ''Biotechnology and Bioengineering''. The paper was also featured in a video highlight at the journal website.
'''4/2013'''    A paper entitled “A designed, phase changing RTX-based peptide for efficient bioseparations” by Shur, Dooley, Blenner, Baltimore and Banta was published in ''BioTechniques''. The paper was also highlighted by the Editors in the BioSpotlight.
'''4/2013'''    A paper entitled “Functional assembly of a multi-enzyme cascade on the surface-displayed trifunctional scaffold for enhanced NADH production” by Liu, Banta, and Chen was published in ''Chemical Communications''.
'''4/2013'''    The Banta Lab was active with 3 platform presentations at the 245th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in New Orleans, LA.  '''Tushar Patel''' gave a talk entitled “Whole-cell Biocatalysts for CO2 Hydration”.  '''Kevin Dooley''' gave a talk entitled “Engineering the repeats-in-toxin (RTX) domain for molecular recognition”.  And, '''Sudipta Majumdar''' gave a talk entitled “Conversion of electrical energy to isobutanol using chemolithoautotrophic iron oxidizing bacteria Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans”. '''Professor Banta''' is the currently the Chair-Elect for the BIOT division of ACS.
'''3/2013'''    A Highlight article entitled “Self-Assembling Enzyme Networks—A New Path towards Multistep Bioelectrocatalytic Systems” by Uwe Schroder was published in ''Angewandte Chemie International Edition'' and this article highlighted our recent manuscript “Complete oxidation of methanol in biobattery devices using a hydrogel created from three modified dehydrogenases” by Kim et al.
'''2/2013'''    '''Professor Banta''' gave a research seminar entitled "Protein Engineering for Bioelectrocatalysis: We can do more than just Vmax” at the Indo-US Workshop on Electrocatalytic Materials for Fuel and Biofuel Cells held at Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi, India.
'''2/2013'''    A paper entitled “Rearranging and concatenating a native RTX domain to understand sequence modularity” by Shur and Banta was published in ''Protein Engineering, Design and Selection''.
'''2/2013'''    A paper entitled “Modular exchange of substrate-binding loops alters both substrate and cofactor specificity in a member of the aldo-keto reductase superfamily” by Campbell, Chuang and Banta was published in ''Protein Engineering, Design and Selection''.
'''1/2013'''    A paper entitled “Complete oxidation of methanol in biobattery devices using a hydrogel created from three modified dehydrogenases” by Kim, Campbell, Yu, Minteer and Banta was published in ''Angewandte Chemie International Edition''.  The editors highlighted this publication as a ''Hot Paper''.
'''12/2012'''    '''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 Princeton University in Princeton, NJ.
'''12/2012'''    The Banta Lab is pleased to welcome a new postdoctoral fellow into the lab group. '''Dr. Jennifer Haghpanah''' earned a PhD in Chemistry from NYU-Poly.  Welcome aboard Jennifer!
'''12/2012'''    Four new PhD students have joined the research group.  Beyza Bulutoglu, Kristen Garcia, Woojin Kim, and Harun Ozbakir are all joining the Banta Lab.  Welcome aboard everyone!
'''11/2012'''    A paper entitled “Electrochemical reduction of nitrite to ammonia for use in a bioreactor” by Sahin, Lin, Khunjar, Chandran, Banta and West was published in ''Journal of the Electrochemical Society''.
'''10/2012'''    Another new member has joined the lab.  Avery Rebecca Banta was born on October 6, 2012.
'''9/2012'''    The Banta Lab is pleased to welcome a bunch of new personnel into the group this semester.  Beyza Bulutoglu, Kristen Garcia, Woojin Kim, Sameera Namazi and Harun Osbakir are joining the group for graduate researcher rotations, and Raymond Bellon and Devante Bledsoe are joining as undergrad researchers.  Welcome aboard everyone!
'''9/2012'''    A paper entitled “Biomass production from electricity using ammonia as an electron carrier in a reverse microbial fuel cell” by Khunjar, Sahin, West, Chandran and Banta was published in ''PLoS ONE''.
'''8/2012'''    '''Professor Banta''' has received a new 1 year grant from the National Science Foundation.  The project is entitled "Evolution of Beta Roll Peptides to Create Allosterically-Regulated Binding Domains Using Bacterial Cell Surface Display".
'''7/2012'''    Students from the Double Discovery Center at Columbia University visited and performed and experiment in the Banta Lab. See the Pictures section for a image of the group.
'''7/2012'''    '''Professor Banta''' has received a new 3 year grant from the Army Research Office.  The project is entitled "Engineering of an Extremely Thermostable Alpha/Beta Barrel Scaffold To Serve as a High Affinity Molecular Recognition Element For Use in Sensor Applications".
'''7/2012'''    '''Oren Shur''' successfully defended his PhD thesis, the eighth from the Banta group.  His thesis was entitled "Engineering the repeats-in-toxin domain for biotechnology applications".  Congratulations Dr. Shur!
'''7/2012'''    A paper entitled "Effect of thermal stability on protein adsorption to silica using homologous aldo-keto reductases" by Felsovalyi, Patel, Mangiagalli, Kumar and Banta was published in ''Protein Science''.
'''7/2012'''    '''Flora Felsovalyi''' successfully defended her PhD thesis, the seventh from the Banta group.  Her thesis was entitled "Mechanistic Study of the Adsorption and Desorption of Proteins on Silica".  Congratulations Dr. Felsovalyi!
'''7/2012'''    '''Asli Sahin''' successfully defended her PhD thesis, the sixth from the Banta group.  Her thesis was entitled "Development of Electrochemical Methods for Detection of Pesticides and Biofuel Production".  Congratulations Dr. Sahin!
'''6/2012'''    A paper entitled "Engineering of an Environmentally Responsive Beta Roll Peptide for Use as a Calcium-Dependent Cross-Linking Domain for Peptide Hydrogel Formation" by Dooley, Kim, Lu, Tu and Banta was published in ''Biomacromolecules''.
'''5/2012'''    '''Professor Banta''' is helping to mentor a new IGEM team formed with Columbia and Cooper Union students.


'''5/2012'''    '''Professor Banta''' gave an invited research seminar entitled "Engineering Enzymes to Self-Assemble into Catalytic Biomaterials" at the 10th Anniversary Symposium of the Institute for Biotechnology at St. John’s University in Queens, NY.
'''5/2012'''    '''Professor Banta''' gave an invited research seminar entitled "Engineering Enzymes to Self-Assemble into Catalytic Biomaterials" at the 10th Anniversary Symposium of the Institute for Biotechnology at St. John’s University in Queens, NY.
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'''5/2012'''    '''Professor Banta''' gave a talk entitled ""Electrofuel" Production Using Ammonia or Iron as Redox Mediators in Reverse Microbial Fuel Cells" at the 221st Electrochemical Society Meeting in Seattle, WA.  
'''5/2012'''    '''Professor Banta''' gave a talk entitled ""Electrofuel" Production Using Ammonia or Iron as Redox Mediators in Reverse Microbial Fuel Cells" at the 221st Electrochemical Society Meeting in Seattle, WA.  


'''4/2012'''    '''Professor Banta''' has received a new 4 year grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Researh.  The project entitled "3-D Enzymatic Nanomaterial Architectures For Energy Harvesting" will be a collaboration with David Baker, U of Washington, S. Mintter, U of Utah, and P. Atanassov, U of New Mexico.
'''4/2012'''    '''Professor Banta''' has received a new 4 year grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Researh.  The project entitled "3-D Enzymatic Nanomaterial Architectures For Energy Harvesting" will be a collaboration with David Baker, U of Washington, S. Minteer, U of Utah, and P. Atanassov, U of New Mexico.


'''4/2012'''    Banta Lab alumnus '''Mark Blenner''' has accepted a faculty position in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Clemson University.  Congratulations Professor Blenner!
'''4/2012'''    Banta Lab alumnus '''Mark Blenner''' has accepted a faculty position in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Clemson University.  Congratulations Professor Blenner!

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