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Principal Investigator

Scott Banta Curriculum vitae

sbanta@columbia.edu

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Postdoctoral Fellows

Beyza Bulutoglu bb2610@columbia.edu

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PhD Students

Walaa Abdallah wka2104@columbia.edu

Yuta Inaba yi2192@columbia.edu

Harun Ozbakir hfo2103@columbia.edu

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Masters Students

Neha Desireddy nd2520@columbia.edu

John Reeves jsr2182@columbia.edu

Sergio Sanchez sgs2160@columbia.edu

Jared Shapiro jns2155@columbia.edu

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Undergraduate Students

Vanessa Chirino vmc2131@barnard.edu

Damilola Lawal {mailto:rdl2128@columbia.edu rdl2128@columbia.edu]

Patrick Varuzza pv2286@columbia.edu

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Lab Alumni

Postdoctoral Fellows

Indrani Banerjee - Research Scientist at Colgate Palmolive

Kusum Solanki

Jennifer Haghpanah - Engineer at L'Oreal

Sudipta Majumdar - Assistant Professor, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Wendell Khunjar - Engineer, Hazen and Sawyer

Yang Hee Kim - Research Engineer, C.J. Corporation, Korea

Matthew Lluis - Web Designer/Developer

Jun Wu - Scientist, Atotech Inc.

Geza Szilvay - Research Scientist, VTT Technical Research Centre, Finland

Jong Pil Park - Assistant Professor, Department of Herbal pharmaceutical Engineering, Daegu Haany University, Korea

J. Todd Holland - Scientist, Intrexon Corp.

Xiaojun Chen - Research Scientist, Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, Singapore

Karuppiah (Karu) Chockalingam - Senior Process Development Engineer, Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies

PhD Students

Kristen Garcia (PhD 2016)

Tim Kernan (PhD 2016) - First Employee of Ironic Chemicals, LLC

Xiaozheng Li (PhD 2015) - Bioprocess Engineer

Kevin Dooley (PhD 2014) - Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Engineering in Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Tushar Patel (PhD 2013) - Chemical Engineer, Bristol-Myers Squibb

Oren Shur (PhD 2012) - Management Consultant, Boston Consulting Group

Flora Felsovalyi (PhD 2012) - Chemical Engineer, Hoffman la Roche

Asli Sahin (PhD 2012) - Postdoctoral Fellow, IBM

Elliot Campbell (PhD 2011) - Research Scientist, Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine, Rutgers University

Doris Glykys (PhD 2010) - Senior Chemical Engineer, Merck & Co.

Shan Gao (PhD 2009) - Senior Chemical Engineer - Wave 80 Biosciences

Mark Blenner (PhD 2009) - Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Clemson University

Ian Wheeldon (PhD 2009) - Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of California Riverside

Masters Students

Justin Delafontaine

Jingyang (Billy) Guan

Mansij Hans - LifeCell

Joe Imperato - Pfizer

Irina Khenkin

Matthew Lebovich

Helen Lin

Ruel McKenzie - Doctoral Student, NYU-Poly

Dima Najjar - Dow Chemical

Sameera Namazi - Regeneron Pharmaceuticals

Ikechukwu Okorafor

Yola Salome Serpa de Miranda

Undergraduate Students

Dexter Antonio

Matthew Baltimore

Daniel Baran

Raymond Bellon

Devante Bledsoe

Hayley Caddes

Andrea Chan

Christine Chang

Navid Choudhury

Sara Chuang

Brett Chung

Srikanth Damera

Josephine Davis

Christopher Farley

Meshach Heenatigala

Zoe Hilbert

AnhDao Ho

Sarah Hunt

Joohee Jung

Kirsten Jung

Asher Krell

Daniel Lewis

Amanda Li

Carol Li

Christine Liu

Jack Lu

Alexis Matrka

Christina Michaels

Karina Montenegro

Olamide Omidele

David Sambade

Zachary Shaw

Christine Shim

Mita Singh

Fehlin Stone

Victoria Sun

Morgan Urello

Xuanqing Wan

Vinson Wang

Xiaobei Wang

Jennifer Xiong

Nina Xu

Sarah Yang

Sophronia Yu

Zoe Zegers

High School Science Teachers

Akiva Friedman

Dawn Kennedy

Qianhui (Valerie) Yeo

High School Volunteers

Diana Fernandes

Yasmeen Omer