[[Image:Jensen and foo et al.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Jensen Foo et al 2014 gets a nice write up by Lynn Yarris and the front page of our DOE webpage [http://mbio.asm.org/content/5/6/e01932-14 paper]]]
Efflux Pumps provide a direct mechanism to alleviate product toxicity (Image prepared by Everett Kaplan (JBEI))
Welcome to the Mukhopadhyay Group page!!
We are an interdisciplinary team at the Berkeley Lab studying signaling, stress response and tolerance in both environmental and engineered organisms. As the host engineering group at JBEI we adopt targeted and systems biology approaches to elucidate causes of inhibition during fuel/ solvent production from lignocellulose using the microbes such as Escherichia coli and Saccharomyces cerevisiae. We hope to engineer better hosts for metabolite production and develop tools that are universally useful for microbial cellular engineering. We are part of the ENIGMA project where our research includes the study of two component signaling in the model sulfate reducing bacterium Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough. In other bioremediation projects we address degradation of organophosphate and phosphonate compounds. We also study wetting events and signaling in the fabulous cyanobacteria that dominate the desert soil crusts on our planet.
Left to Right: Kavya, Melissa, Nhat-Tan, Lara, Marijke, Camille, Florence, Jee-Loon, Aindrila, Eric, Heather, Zain and Amanda The whole group at the Can't Fail cafe. We have new members in the group - Amanda Reider Appel and Nhat Than Vuong!
Feb 14th 2012
Science Today, a UC Berkeley Radio channel, features comments on our study of the D. vulgaris two component system regulator network.
Nov 9th 2011
Lara and Eric's Response Regulator Map paper gets written about in Berkeley Lab's TABL site.
(Photo by Roy Kaltschmidt, Berkeley Lab)Mario (in the blue lab coat!!) features in the Berkeley Lab news letter TABL for his important contribution in developing Bisabolene production in yeast. Here is a link to Pamela and TaekSoon's Nature Communications paper
