• Conference Presentations

1. Thakker C, San KY, Bennett GN. 2013. Cottonseed meal derived soluble sugars as an economical feedstock for the fermentative production of C4 dicarboxylic acid using engineered E. coli. 63rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology (SIMB), August 11-15, 2013, San Diego, CA, USA
2. Balzer GJ, Thakker C, Bennett GN, San KY. 2013. Metabolic engineering of E. coli to minimize byproduct formate during succinate production by heterologous overexpression of a NAD+-dependent formate dehydrogenase. 63rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology (SIMB), August 11-15, 2013, San Diego, CA, USA
3. Thakker C, Zareian S, San KY, Bennett GN. 2012. Production of biofuel ethanol and succinate from abundant non-digestible oilseed components. 62nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology (SIMB), August 12-16, 2012, Washington, DC, USA
4. Thakker C, Bennett GN, San KY. 2011. Production of succinate from soybean carbohydrates using engineered E. coli. 61st Annual Meeting of the Society for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology (SIMB), July 24-28, 2011, New Orleans, LA, USA
5. Thakker C, Lin K, Bennett GN, 2011. Transposase mediated precise genome modification in E. coli. 111th General Meeting American Society for Microbiology (ASM), May 21-25, 2011, New Orleans, LA, USA
6. Thakker C, Zhu J, Bennett GN, San KY. 2010. Effect of promoter strength on heterologous pyruvate carboxylase gene expression and succinate yield by metabolically engineered E. coli. 32nd Symposium on biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals, Clearwater, Florida, USA
7. Nellimarla S, Thakker C, Ranade DR, Deshpande M. 2005. Anaerobic fermentation studies for yeast-mycelium dimorphic transition in Yarrowia lipolytica. International conference on the biology of yeasts, Indian Institute of Science, Banglore, India
8. Jariwala V, Thakker C, Ranade DR. 2004. Biohydrogen production from distillery waste. VIIth Annual Conference of the Indian Environmental Association, Pune, India
9. Thakker C, Ranade DR. 2001. An alkalophilic halotolerant methanogenic archaea from Lonar crater. National conference on Microbial Technology, Coimbatore, India

• Talks

1. Manipulation of E. coli metabolic network for succinate production. 2010. University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, USA
2. Laboratory techniques for the cultivation of anaerobic bacteria. 2004. Agharkar Research Institute, Pune, India