Events

April 2026

Dr. Shrestha gave an invited presentation on "Harnessing anaerobic microbiomes for circular biomanufacturing from agri-food waste” at the Tri-Service Microbiome Consortium (TSMC) Topical Meeting 2026, organized by the Office of the Undersecretary of War.

March 2026

• PhD students, Xuejiao Lyu and Mujaheed Nuhu, presented their dissertation work at the IWA Biofilm Reactors Conference in Alabama.
  

• Dr. Dianna Kitt presented her postdoc work on designing synthetic microbial consortia for biomanufacturing at the Mid-Atlantic Microbiome Meet-up Symposium in Engineering and Analytics in Microbiome Research.

November 2025

• Dr. Shrestha gave a department seminar on "Reimagining Waste as Resources: Engineering Anaerobic Microbiomes for Sustainable Biomanufacturing” at the Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University.
  

• Dr. Shrestha delivered an invited keynote lecture on Harnessing biofilms for efficient medium chain carboxylic acids production through innovative bioreactor design and support materials at the 3rd International Chain Elongation Conference in South Korea.

October 2025

Dr. Shrestha gave a department seminar on "Engineering anaerobic microbiomes for sustainable biomanufacturing from low-value waste” at Clemson University.

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, and 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"!

November 2024

Dr. Shrestha gave a seminar on engineering microbiomes at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

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.
  

• Dr. Shrestha gave a department seminar on top-down and bottom-up microbiome engineering approaches for biomanufacturing at the George Washington University.

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.

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