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Microbial Green Chemistry & Biotechnology 

HIghlights

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“Our team won the NASA-Phase I, Deep Space Food Challenge- µBites is the next generation food production system from waste biomass and plastic”

Jayasekara et al (2023). Trends in in-silico guided engineering of efficient polyethylene terephthalate (PET) hydrolyzing enzymes to enable bio-recycling and upcycling of PET. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, 21, 3513-3521.

Latest Article

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About us

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Research Programs

We leverage metabolic engineering and synthetic microbiology to develop next-generation microbial biocatalytic for industrial applications

PI 

Dr. Lahiru Jayakody is synthetic microbiologist, and his team develop technologies to valorize biomass and unconventional substrates such as plastic via synthetic microbes

Contact us

We have several opening for graduate and undergraduate research projects 

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