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Microbial Green Chemistry & Biotechnology 

HIghlights

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"Dr. Jayakody received the National Science Foundation's most prestigious NSF-CAREER award to develop consolidated bioprocess for plastic upcycling."

Jayakody et al (2024). Next-generation 3D-printed nutritious food derived from waste plastic and biomass, 42, 799-800.

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

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We have several opening for graduate and undergraduate research projects 

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