{"id":14,"date":"2015-08-13T15:57:50","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T23:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/research.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/mrg\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2017-04-06T12:56:28","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T20:56:28","slug":"group-members","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/mrg\/group-members\/","title":{"rendered":"Members"},"content":{"rendered":"

Principal Investigator<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\"McDonald,<\/a><\/td>\nKaren McDonald, PhD<\/p>\n

Professor,\u00a0Dept. Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
\n3008 Bainer Hall
\nOffice Phone: (530) 752-8314<\/p>\n

Faculty Director, UC Davis ADVANCE Program
\n1104 Surge III
\nOffice Phone: (530) 752-6885<\/td>\n

University of California, Davis
\nOne Shields Avenue
\nDavis, CA\u00a0 95616
\nkamcdonald@ucdavis.edu<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Postdoctoral Researcher<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\"Kalimuthu<\/a><\/td>\nKalimuthu\u00a0Karuppanan, PhD<\/p>\n

kkaruppanan@ucdavis.edu<\/a><\/td>\n

Kalimuthu Karuppanan completed his PhD in Biotechnology in 2013 from Department of Molecular Microbiology, School of Biotechnology, Madurai Kamaraj University, India. Kalimuthu\u2019s efforts have focused on establishing tobacco plant cell culture, optimization of co-cultivation conditions and bioreactor strategies to produce monoclonal antibodies against Ebola, as well as developing and optimization of downstream processing for recombinant protein purification and characterization. In addition, he is collaboratively working with other therapeutic proteins (Anthrax decoy protein and Alpha-1 antitrypsin) transiently produced from tobacco plants.\u00a0 As a postdoctoral researcher he is supervising the current research projects and mentoring students in McDonald research group.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Graduate Students<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\u00a0\"Salem<\/a><\/td>\nSalem\u00a0Alkanaimsh<\/span><\/p>\n
salkanaimsh@ucdavis.edu<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n
Salem received his B.S in Chemical Engineering in 2009 from Kuwait University.\u00a0 His current research focuses on transient expression for the production butyrylcholinesterase protein, a biopharmaceutical agent that serves as an organophosphate bioscavenger, in Nicotiana benthamiana<\/em> plants.\u00a0 He also focuses on purification and characterization of the recombinant plant-based butyrylcholinesterase enzyme.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/a><\/td>\nElizabeth\u00a0Anthony<\/span><\/p>\n
laanthony@ucdavis.edu<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n
Liz graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2011 with a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering. At RPI she developed strong interests in renewable energy and biotechnology. In the McDonald lab, she has been able to combine both of these interests with her research project focused on decreasing the overall production costs of cellulosic biofuels through the development of a plant-based expression system for the required enzymes.<\/p>\n

During her time as UC Davis, she also been a National Science Foundation GK12 RESOURCE fellow, for which she developed and taught renewable energy curriculum to 6th\u00a0<\/sup>grade classrooms, and an Emerging Leaders in Policy and Public Service Fellow, for which she worked at the Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technology analyzing and communicating data to stakeholders for the California 2030 Low Carbon Grid Study.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\"Jasmine<\/a><\/td>\nJasmine Corbin<\/p>\n
jmcorbin@ucdavis.edu<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n
Jasmine received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering with a biochemical emphasis from USC in 2013.\u00a0 Her graduate research focuses on both upstream and downstream process development for a transgenic rice cell suspension culture for the production of butyrylcholinesterase, a therapeutic enzyme for the treatment of organophosphorus nerve agent exposure.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0\"sifti\"<\/a><\/td>\nSifti Duhra-Gill<\/p>\n
sdgill@ucdavis.edu<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n
Sifti received her Bachelor of Engineering in Biotechnology from Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal, India. Her current research focuses on the production and purification of chimeric protein against anthrax toxin using a transient expression system in Nicotiana benthamiana<\/em> plants.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/td>\nIngrid Leth<\/p>\n
ikleth@ucdavis.edu<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n
[BIO BLURB]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/td>\nSomen Nandi<\/span><\/p>\n
snandi@ucdavis.edu<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n
[BIO BLURB]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"David_Silberstein\"<\/a><\/td>\nDavid\u00a0Silberstein<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
dzsilberstein@ucdavis.edu<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n
David earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering with a biomolecular focus\u00a0from UCLA in 2012. He then worked as a validation engineer for PSC Biotech in Los\u00a0Angeles before joining the McDonald group, completing projects at Baxter Bioscience\u00a0and Neutrogena Corporation. His current research is in optimizing the expression and\u00a0purification of a human therapeutic protein, Alpha-1-antitrypsin, using a transient\u00a0expression system in Nicotiana benthamiana<\/em>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"sara<\/a><\/td>\nSara\u00a0Sukenik<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
scsukenik@ucdavis.edu<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n
Sara received her B.S.E. in Chemical and Biological Engineering from Princeton University. Prior to joining the McDonald lab, Sara worked at Merck & Co., performing viral vaccine process development research. In her graduate research, she is developing a platform for rapid production of novel therapeutic proteins using transient expression in Nicotiana benthamiana <\/i>plant cell suspension cultures.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"tiffany<\/a><\/td>\nTiffany Tu<\/span><\/p>\n
ttu@ucdavis.edu<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n
Tiffany Tu is a Masters student in the Chemical Engineering and Materials Science department with an interest in renewable, sustainable energies. Prior to her Masters, she received her B.S in Chemical Engineering and minor in Materials Science from University of California, Irvine. Her current research focuses on simulating and comparing early environmental and economical aspects of fungal, transgenic, and transient production of cellulase enzymes in scale-up, conceptual plant designs with SuperPro Designer (Intelligen, Inc).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Undergraduate Students<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n
\"Zack<\/a><\/td>\nZachary\u00a0Kyser<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
zrkyser@ucdavis.edu<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n
Zack Kyser is\u00a0a Chemical Engineering undergraduate student at UC Davis. He started in lab at the beginning of May 2015, working on the production of butyrylcholinesterase from rice cell lines under the mentorship of Jasmine Corbin.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"katie<\/a><\/td>\nBenjamin Chang<\/p>\n

blchang@ucdavis.edu<\/a><\/td>\n

Ben is\u00a0a chemical engineering undergraduate student at UC Davis. He started in the lab in September 2016 and his undergraduate research focuses on the purification process of butyrylcholinesterase from rice cell lines.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Former Members (Alumni)<\/h2>\n
\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Name<\/strong><\/td>\nTitle<\/strong><\/td>\nCurrently at<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Elizabeth Anthony<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ingrid Leth<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
SangKyu Jung<\/td>\nGraduate student<\/td>\nPostdoc, UPenn<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ben Lindenmuth<\/td>\nGraduate student<\/td>\nBayer HealthCare, Berkeley, CA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ting-Kuo Huang<\/td>\nGraduate student<\/td>\nGenentech, SSF, CA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Michael Plesha<\/td>\nGraduate student<\/td>\nBayer CropScience, Sacramento, CA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Corey Dodge<\/td>\nGraduate student<\/td>\nVerenium, now part of BASF, San Diego, CA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kittipong Rattanaporn (Nat)<\/td>\nGraduate student<\/td>\n\u00a0Kasetsart University, Thailand<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lucas Arzola<\/td>\nGraduate student<\/td>\nUC Davis, Director of the Engineering Student Startup Center<\/p>\n

CEO, Inserogen, Inc.<\/p>\n

CEO, Betaversity, Inc.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Nathaniel Kingsbury<\/td>\nGraduate student<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bryce Hashimoto<\/td>\nGraduate student<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Grace Bai<\/td>\nUndergraduate student<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Debika Mitra<\/td>\nUndergraduate student<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jeffrey Upton<\/td>\nUndergraduate student<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Allen Reed<\/td>\nUndergraduate student<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Derrick Hicks<\/td>\nUndergraduate student<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Alexandra Moskaluk<\/td>\nUndergraduate student<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Past visiting scholars<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n
Alexandra (Alex) Ramirez Celis<\/td>\nUniversidad Autonoma de Aguascalientes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oscar A. Ortega-Rivera<\/td>\nUniversidad Autonoma de Aguascalientes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Principal Investigator<\/h2>\n

\"McDonald,<\/a> Karen McDonald, PhD<\/p>\n

Professor,\u00a0Dept. Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
3008 Bainer Hall
Office Phone: (530) 752-8314<\/p>\n

Faculty Director, UC Davis ADVANCE Program
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