Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineer, Educator, Mentor, Father
New York, NY & Fairfield, CT
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Ever wondered if you can genetically alter magnetosome formation in Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans?
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Check out our new paper just published in Angewandte in collaboration with Battelle where we used Phage Assisted Continuous Evolution (PACE) to evolve a new peptide for rare earth element (REE) bioseparations.
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Really excited about our new breakthrough in copper metal bioleaching: CRISPR/dCas12a knock-down of Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans electron transport chain bc1 complexes enables enhanced metal sulfide bioleaching - Journal of Biological Chemistry jbc.org/article/S0021-9258%2…
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Enzyme Engineering by Force! In new work by Gokulu and Banta in @ACSSynBio we show that DNA springs can be used to stretch open an enzymatic active site to alter substrate specificity.
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New #ACSEditorsChoice by Jung at al in @JACS_Au. Engineered protein expressed in bioleaching cells for critical metal ion binding.
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Scott Banta retweeted
'Overexpression of a Designed Mutant Oxyanion Binding Protein ModA/WtpA in Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans for the Low pH Recovery of Molybdenum and Rhenium' from @JACS_Au is currently free to read as an #ACSEditorsChoice.
📖 Access the full article: go.acs.org/ajN
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Excited to share new work from the Banta lab by Farid Khoury and Zihang Su in
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where we have characterized a beta roll peptide domain for rare earth element separation - works at low pH!
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Congratulations to Dr. Ipek Simay Gokulu for successfully defending her thesis "Engineering Enzymatic Modulation Platforms for Biomolecular Applications”. 21st PhD from the Banta Lab!
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Ever thought about the connections between ChemE and food? Chris Chen at @CUSEAS and his collaborators talk about a cool hands-on, food-inspired lab in the latest issue of CEE, part of our @ChESS_2022 Special Issue! Get it ahead-of-print at journals.flvc.org/cee/index
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Scott Banta retweeted
Please join us for wine and dessert at 8pm on Monday evening in the Plaza International Ballroom F in the Hyatt at #AIChEAnnual !
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New work in collaboration with Castaldi Lab @CCNYChemicalEng describes the engineering of biomining bacteria to bind and sequester copper from waste materials.
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New article by @ProfScottBanta !
Embracing Inhibitions: Here we engineered a formate dehydrogenase to use the inhibitor 3-NADP(H) as a functional cofactor
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Congratulations to Dr. Salomon Vainstein for successfully defending his thesis "Engineering Formate Dehydrogenase Enzymatic Activity for Non-Canonical Cofactors Through Rational Design”. 20th PhD from the Banta Lab!
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Our fantastic REU students Steven Martinez and Irene Sarro finished up their work this week. Great job and best of luck!
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Excited to share our new work by Dr. Emma Willett in @ACSSynBio where we designed a synthetic metabolic pathway for ATP regeneration powered by cheap fuel oxidation doi.org/10.1021/acssynbio.3c…
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Scott Banta retweeted
Post-Doctoral Research Opportunity
We are seeking a highly motivated post-doctoral researcher with experience in protein engineering.
To apply, please send a curriculum vitae and the names of three references via email to: Dr. Scott Banta, sbanta@columbia.edu.
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Protein enables better lanthanide separations cen.acs.org/analytical-chemi… via @cenmag
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This protein can do something amazing – read all about it in this terrific N&V by @ProfScottBanta go.nature.com/3C5fjQw
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