The Kunjapur Lab is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment.
We celebrate the different backgrounds and perspectives that every lab member brings to our team.
For Prospective Members
We are hiring! We are looking for a lab manager, 1 PhD student, & 1 post-doc to start in the 2023-2024 academic year:
We are seeking postdoc candidates who have experience in any of the following areas:
chemical biology, engineering microbial communities, or engineering soil bacteria
Postdoc applicants can email Dr. Kunjapur directly with their CV and a brief cover letter.
If you are a prospective graduate student who has an engineering undergraduate degree and is interested in our lab, then apply to the Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering PhD program.
If you are a prospective graduate student who has an undergraduate degree in the natural sciences and is interested in our lab, then apply to the Microbiology Graduate Program.
We celebrate the different backgrounds and perspectives that every lab member brings to our team.
For Prospective Members
We are hiring! We are looking for a lab manager, 1 PhD student, & 1 post-doc to start in the 2023-2024 academic year:
We are seeking postdoc candidates who have experience in any of the following areas:
chemical biology, engineering microbial communities, or engineering soil bacteria
Postdoc applicants can email Dr. Kunjapur directly with their CV and a brief cover letter.
If you are a prospective graduate student who has an engineering undergraduate degree and is interested in our lab, then apply to the Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering PhD program.
If you are a prospective graduate student who has an undergraduate degree in the natural sciences and is interested in our lab, then apply to the Microbiology Graduate Program.
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Principal Investigator: Aditya M. Kunjapur2019 Assistant Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Delaware
2018 Post-Doc, Genetics, Harvard Medical School (Advisor: George Church) 2015 PhD, Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Advisor: Kristala Prather) 2010 BS, Chemical Engineering, University of Texas (Advisor: Bruce Eldridge) Aditya is from Houston, Texas, and interned for 5 summers with Shell and ExxonMobil as an undergraduate. His interest in biomolecular engineering was sparked by a desire to develop renewable liquid transportation fuel alternatives, and he remains excited to create new routes to chemicals from renewable sources using biocatalysis. During his post-doc, he became fascinated by the enormous potential of designer bacteria for biomedical applications. Whether for healthcare or sustainability goals, Aditya is most interested in taking functional group chemistries that are underrepresented in nature and designing routes to introduce them onto building block molecules. When outside of lab, Aditya enjoys CrossFit, building things in his woodshop, messing around on the alto sax, and playing board games. For more info on how Aditya became interested in synthetic biology, see this blog post from 2015. Recent Awards 2023 - Society of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology Early Career Award 2022 - NIH Director's New Innovator Award 2022 - Office of Naval Research Young Investigator 2021 - New Innovator Award from the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research 2021 - Langer Prize for Innovation and Entrepreneurial Excellence 2020 - American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) 35 Under 35 2019 - Emerging Leaders in Biosecurity Initiative (ELBI) Fellow |
Graduate Students & Postdocs
Shelby AndersonNIH CBI Fellow
B.S., Georgia Institute of Technology sander(at)udel(dot)edu |
Neil ButlerNSF GRFP Honorable Mention
B.S., Penn State University ndb(at)udel(dot)edu |
Avaniek Cabales
B.S., Rutgers University
avaniekc(at)udel(dot)edu |
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Amanda Forti
NSF Graduate Research Fellow
B.S. University of Rochester aforti(at)udel(dot)edu |
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Saloni Gupta
B.S., Visvesvaraya NIT
salonig(at)udel(dot)edu |
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Priyanka Nain
Ph.D., Indian Inst. of Tech - Delhi
prinain(at)udel(dot)edu |
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D'Jana Wyllis
NIH CBI Fellow, GEM Fellow
B.S., Columbia University djanaw(at)udel(dot)edu |
Undergraduate Students
Josh Bryan
B.S. Chemical Engineering
2024 |
Anu Buddhikot
B.S. Chemical Engineering
2026 |
Nastassja Corrado
B.S. Chemical Engineering
2024 |
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Miyu Mudalamane
B.S. Chemical Engineering
2024 Barry Goldwater Scholar |
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Alexander Tiso
B.S. Chemical Engineering
2024 |
Alumni
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Kunjapur Lab Alumni:
Name - Years in Lab - Status in Lab (UG = Undergrad / G = Grad / T = Technician / P = Post-Doc) - Next Institution Ishika Govil - 2020-2023 - UG - MIT (Ph.D.) Goldwater Scholar & NSF Fellow Morgan Sulzbach - 2019-2023 - G - Proskauer Sean Wirt - 2019-2022 - UG - MIT (Ph.D.) NSF Fellow Shalom Fadullon - 2021 - UG - Northeastern (Ph.D.) Khai Khee Kho - 2020-2022 - UG - Minnesota (Ph.D.) [declined] Soumili Chattopadhyay - 2020-2021 - G - VaxCyte Nathan Edwards - 2020 - UG - Delaware (M.S.) Vicky Lin - 2019 - UG Natalie Fuhr - 2019 - UG Ryan Buchser - 2019-2021 - UG - UT-Austin (Ph.D.) Before Delaware: Emily Niu - 2018 - UG - Then: MIT - After: Bain & Company Aditya Jog - 2018 - UG - MIT Lucas Brown - 2018 - T - Then: Harvard - After: Rice University Karen Noguera - 2017-2018 - T - Then: Harvard - After: U. Indiana - Bloomington Peter Smith - 2017-2018 - G - Harvard Biological and Biomedical Sciences Devon Stork - 2016-2018 - G - Then: Harvard - After: Tenza Bio Jason Hyun - 2014-2015 - UG - Then: MIT - After: Manus Biosciences Asmawaw Wassie - 2013 - UG - Then: MIT - After: MIT Biological Engineering PhD Nikita Khlystov - 2012-2014 - UG - Then: MIT - After: Stanford Chemical Engineering PhD Spencer Wenck - 2012-2013 - UG - Then: MIT - After: Boston Consulting Group Bernardo Cervantes - 2012 - UG - Then: Berkeley - After: MIT Microbiology PhD |
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Snapshots of the Team
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