• Invited to organize and chair a session on ‘Fermentation Considerations for Strain Design‘ in the upcoming annual meeting of SIMB at St. Louis, MO (July 20-24, 2014).

• Invited as a Career Speaker (Energy) at the 2013 Asian American College & Career Day (November 2013).

• Received an award for Outstanding Research Poster presentation at Biochemistry and Cell Biology research symposium organized at BRC, Rice University (August 2013).

• Chaired a session on ‘Genomic Stability in Fermentation Processes‘ in 2013 annual meeting of SIMB at San Diego, CA (August 11-15, 2013).

• Most Cited Articles Published in 2012: Succinate production in Escherichia coli (Review). Chandresh Thakker, Irene Martínez, Ka-Yiu San and  Prof. George N. Bennett. Biotechnol. J. 2012, 7, 213-224.

• Soybeans a source of valuable chemical (Succinate work featured on the National Science Foundation website, Dec. 2012)

• Soyabean can replace petrol as versatile chemical (Succinate work featured on MSN and Yahoo news)

• Rice researchers engineer E. coli to produce succinate efficiently from soybean mash (Succinate work featured on ‘Green Car Congress’)

 • Rice University signs deal to commercialize succinic acid

 • French firm hungry for Rice technology

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