Cell Wall Engineering Group (Continued)
Prajakta Pradhan
Prajakta's research project is focused on generation and incorporation of novel monolignols to create a novel lignin carrying easy hydrolyzable bond to reduce its recalcitrance to pre-treatment to improve polysaccharides extraction from plant cell walls to improve cost effectiveness of lignocellulosic ethanol production. She is also involved on the isolation and characterization of biosynthetic pathway of the selected novel monolignols to improve their biosynthesis in lignifying cell.
Parul Tomar
Parul completed her MSc in 2006 at University of Hertfordshire (UK) where she used molecular techniques to develop bioluminescent biomarkers in E. coli. Her work at JBEI involves the recombinant expression of cell wall proteins in yeast.
Fan Yang
Fan Graduated in 2007 at UC-Riverside on Plant Cell Biology. Fan's research project is focused on generation and incorporation of novel monolignols to create a novel lignin carrying easy hydrolyzable bond to reduce its recalcitrance to pre-treatment to improve polysaccharides extraction from plant cell walls to improve cost effectiveness of lignocellulosic ethanol production. She is also working on isolating and characterization monolignol transporters to understand how monolignols get exported out of the cell.
Ling Zhang
Ling is a graduate student at Shanghai Jiaotong University. Ling's research will be targeted on the isolating and characterization monolignol transporters to understand how monolignols get exported out of the cell. He will try to identify transporters for the selected novel monolignols to improve their incorporation into the lignin structure.
