Principal Investigator
Keith EJ Tyo
Associate Professor
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, PhD Chemical Engineering
West Virginia University, B.S. Chemical Engineering k-tyo(at)northwestern(dot)edu P: 847.868.0319 Tech E-156
Postdoctoral Fellows
Cat Majors
Postdoctoral Fellow, Started 2019
Rice University, PhD Bioengineering, 2019
Vanderbilt University, B.E. Biomedical Engineering, 2012
Project:Split enzyme engineering for ultrasensitive diagnostics design
Catherine(dot)majors(at)northwestern(dot)edu
Bapi Mandal
(coadvised with Linda Broadbelt)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Started 2021
IIT Guwahati, PhD Biosciences and Bioengineering, 2021
Högskolan i Borås, Masters Industrial Biotechnology, 2012
Project: Computational Metabolic Engineering
mandal(dot)bapi(at)northwestern(dot)edu
Sai Praneet Batchu
(coadvised with Linda Broadbelt)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Started 2023
University of Delaware, PhD Chemical Engineering, 2023
Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Bachelor of Technology Chemical Engineering, 2017
Project: Computational Metabolic Engineering
spbatchu(at)northwestern(dot)edu
PhD Students
Yara Jabbour Al Maalouf
Graduate Student in Chemical Engineering, Started 2022
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, B.S. Chemical Engineering and B.S. Biology, 2019
Project: Protein engineering for diagnostic design
yarajm(at)u(dot)northwestern(dot)edu
Geoffrey Bonnanzio
(coadvised with Linda Broadbelt)
Graduate Student in Chemical Engineering, Started 2022
University of Delaware, B.S. Chemical Engineering, 2022
Project: Computational metabolic engineering
geoffreybonnanzio2027(at)u(dot)northwestern(dot)edu
Stefan Pate
(coadvised with Linda Broadbelt)
Graduate Student in Chemical Engineering, Started 2022
Harvard College, B.A. Neurobiology, 2016
Project: Computational metabolic engineering
stefan(dot)pate(at)northwestern(dot)edu
Yash Chainani
(coadvised with Linda Broadbelt)
Graduate Student in Chemical Engineering, Started 2021
University of California, Berkeley, B.S. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, 2021
Project: Development of machine learning models to accelerate discovery of novel biosynthetic pathways to key small-molecules yashchainani2026(at)u(dot)northwestern(dot)edu
Kevin Fitzgerald
PhD Candidate in Chemical Engineering, Started 2020
Purdue University, B.S. Biological Engineering, 2020
Project: Experimental metabolic engineering
kevinfitzgerald2025(at)u(dot)northwestern(dot)edu
Tracey Dinh
(coadvised with Linda Broadbelt)
PhD Candidate in Chemical Engineering, Started 2018
Georgia Institute of Technology, B.S. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, 2016
Project: Characterizing promiscuity of carboligase enzymes
tracey.dinh(at)u(dot)northwestern(dot)edu
Marija Milisavljevic
PhD Candidate in Chemical Engineering, Started 2018
Georgia Institute of Technology, B.S. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, 2017
Project: Protein engineering
marijamilisavljevic2023(at)u(dot)northwestern(dot)edu
Kevin Shebek
(coadvised with Linda Broadbelt)
PhD Candidate in Chemical Engineering, Started 2019
Northwestern University, M.S. Chemical and Biological Engineering, 2019
Pennsylvania State University, B.S. Chemical Engineering, 2015
Project: Computational Metabolic Engineering
kevinshebek2016(at)u(dot)northwestern(dot)edu
Masters Students
Rawia Marafi
(coadvised with Linda Broadbelt)
Graduate Student in Chemical Engineering, Started 2022
Syracuse University, B.S. Chemical Engineering, 2022
Project: Microkinetic modeling of enzymatic cascade reactions
rawiamarafi2024(at)u(dot)northwestern(dot)edu
Undergraduate Students
Teresa Rojas Rodríguez Chemical Engineering undergraduate, Started 2019, Project: Protein Engineering
Margaret Guilarte-Silva, Chemical Engineering undergraduate, Started 2023, Project: Computational metabolic engineering
Alumni
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