Events

September 2025

3rd year PhD student, Nuhu Mujaheed, was awarded the prestigous 2025-2026 Ralph O’Connor Sustainable Energy Institute (ROSEI) PhD Fellowship. Congratulations, Nuhu!

August 2025

We are excited to welcome our new group members- Julia Perkins, Aidan da Graca, Mehr Khosla, Jinci Li, and Serena Birdinc!

June 2025

Welcome to our new group members- Junyeol Choi, Dianna Kitt, Diana Phan, Sumanth Mahalingam!

May 2025

Nuhu Mujaheed was awarded the 2024-2025 Geyh-Bouwer Student Practice Award!

April 2025

Congratulations to our undergraduate student, Charles Zhao, on being nominated for the "Student Employee of the Year"!

July 2024

High school students- Shantanu Sule, Violette Wood, and Andel Adams joined our group as summer interns.

June 2024

Dr. Shrestha gave a keynote lecture at the 18th IWA World Conference on Anaerobic Digestion in Istanbul, Turkey. She discussed different design approaches to advancing anaerobic biotechnologies.

May 2024

Amgen scholar, Jay West, is a new addition to the lab this summer. Jay is a visiting undergraduate biochemistry student from Texas A&M.

January 2024

Our group welcomed Yitao Zong, an Environmental Health and Engineering master's student.

October 2023

Marisa Thomas, an Environmental Health and Engineering master's student, joined the group.

September 2023

• We have our research group website! All thanks to Yurui Zhang and Nuhu Mujaheed.

• Shrestha lab welcomed three undergraduates; Yurui Zhang, Sunny Li, and Adalee Lynch

August 2023

• Xuejiao Lyu and Nuhu Mujaheed joined the Shrestha Lab as PhD students.

• Dr. Shrestha gave an invited talk on “Advancing chain elongation biotechnology for the production of platform chemicals” in the Early Career Women in Science and Engineering session at the ACS Fall Meeting, San Francisco.

July 2023

• Dr. Shrestha convened a session on “Microbes and Built Environment” and gave an invited talk on “Resource recovery of medium chain carboxylic acids from organic waste streams: An environmental life cycle assessment” at the Society of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology Annual Meeting, Minneapolis.

• Dr. Shilva Shrestha moved from the Joint BioEnergy Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab to Johns Hopkins University to start as an assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering.