July 2024

High school students- Shantanu Sule, Violette Wood, and Andel Adams joined our group as summer interns.

June 2024 - Team

Dr. Shrestha gave a keynote lecture at the 18th IWA World Conference on Anaerobic Digestion in Istanbul, Turkey. She discussed different design approaches to advancing anaerobic biotechnologies

May 2024

Amgen scholar, Jay West, is a new addition to the lab this summer. Jay is a visiting undergraduate biochemistry student from Texas A&M.

Jan 2024 - Team

Team Dinner!

Jan 2024

We have our research group website! All thanks to Yurui Zhang and Nuhu Muhammad Mujaheed.

Our group welcomed Yitao Zong, an Environmental Health and Engineering master's student.

Oct 2023

We have our research group website! All thanks to Yurui Zhang and Nuhu Muhammad Mujaheed.

Marisa Thomas, an Environmental Health and Engineering Master's student, joined the group.

Sep 2023

Shrestha lab welcomed three undergraduates; Yurui Zhang, Sunny Li, and Adalee Lynch

Sep 2023

We have our research group website! All thanks to Yurui Zhang and Nuhu Mujaheed.

July 2023

Dr. Shilva Shrestha moved from the Joint BioEnergy Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab to Johns Hopkins University to start as an assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering.

July 2023

Dr. Shrestha convened a session on “Microbes and Built Environment” and gave an invited talk on “Resource recovery of medium chain carboxylic acids from organic waste streams: An environmental life cycle assessment” at the Society of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology Annual Meeting, Minneapolis.

Aug 2023

Dr. Shrestha gave an invited talk on “Advancing chain elongation biotechnology for the production of platform chemicals” in the Early Career Women in Science and Engineering session at the ACS Fall Meeting, San Francisco.

Aug 2023