Chemical and Biological Systems Optimization Lab.
 

Thank you for visiting the Chemical & Biological Systems Optimization Lab at Penn State.

The group is led by Dr. Costas D. Maranas, Donald B. Broughton Professor of the Department of Chemical Engineering. Research interests include metabolic network reconstruction, analysis and redesign; synthetic biology and microbial strain design for bio-production; computational protein, enzyme and antibody design; and bioinformatics.

You can learn more about our group's research, or download our journal publications.


Meet the group members!


Contact Information:
Costas D. Maranas' office:
112 Fenske Laboratory
University Park, PA 16802
email: costas@psu.edu
phone: 814.863.9958
fax: 814.865.7846

Group offices:
147A Fenske Lab – 814.863.1689
147B Fenske Lab – 814.863.3385
149 Fenske Lab – 814.863.4806

 

December 2011 - Sridhar Ranganathan successfully defended his PhD, Congratulations!

September 2011 - Ali Zomorrodi and Robert Pantazes win Larry Duda Awards for Outstanding Graduate Student Performance in Chemical Engineering: Best Paper Award and Best Presentation Award, respectively. Way to go Ali and Robert!

September 2011 - Updated genome-scale atom mapping model for E. coli available under Models.

August 2011 - Matt Grisewood joined the Maranas group as a graduate student. He had worked in the group as an undergraduate.

August 2011 - SL Finder code available under Software

August 2011 - Updated versions of maize and Arabidopsis models available under Models

July 2011 - Updated versions of OptKnock, GapFind/GapFill, and GrowMatch codes available under Software

June 2011 - Robert Pantazes received the College of Engineering's Leighton Riess Fellowship, which recognizes outstanding graduate students working in the life sciences. Congratulations!

March 2011 - Ali Zomorrodi received a 3rd-place award for poster presentation in 2011 Graduate Exhibition. Congratulations!

February 2011 - Genome-scale models for maize and Arabidopsis available under Models.

February 2011 - Genome-scale atom mapping model for E. coli available under Models.

January 2011 - Rajib Saha successfully defended his Masters thesis and will be continuing as a PhD student. Congratulations!

     

http://maranas.che.psu.edu/metrxn/