Pavan Kambam PhD, MBA
Dr. Pavan Kambam has over ten years of experience in developing various types of fermentation processes for renewable fuel/chemical production using wide variety of microbes. He has multidisciplinary background in synthetic biology, chemical and biological engineering.
Previously, he has built, led and been a part of Bioprocess research, development and scale-up groups at Greenlight Biosciences, Kiverdi Inc, Cobalt Technologies, Qteros and Lawrence Berkeley National Labs. He thrives in building multi-disciplinary research and engineering teams to develop commercially viable technologies. Dr. Kambam completed his PhD degree in biochemical engineering from University of Massachusetts; Amherst where he developed and engineered synthetic co-cultures using quorum sensing systems for applications in industrial biotechnology. Preceding, he received his bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering with a minor in biomedical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras.
He is extremely passionate about sustainable chemical technologies and is committed to making it a reality. He has co-authored close to 15 publications, 5 patents and 2 book chapters related to metabolic engineering, fermentation process development and product recovery. He also holds MBA degree from Umass Amherst.
Selected Publications
Kambam, P.K. and Henson, M. A. Engineering Bacterial Processes for Cellulosic Ethanol Production. Biofuels, 2010, 1(5): 729-743.
Kambam, P.K., Eriksen, D.T., Lajoie, J., Sayut, D.J. and Sun, L. Altering the Substrate Specificity of RhlI by Directed Evolution. Chembiochem, 2009, 10(3):553-8.
Kambam, P.K., Sayut D. J., Niu, Y., Eriksen, D.T., and Sun, L. Directed Evolution of LuxI for Enhanced OHHL Production. Biotechnol Bioeng, 2008, 101(2):263-72.
Kambam, P.K., Henson, M.A. and Sun, L. Design and Mathematical Modeling of a Synthetic Symbiotic Ecosystem. IET Syst Biol. 2008, 2(1):33-8.
Jian Shi, John M. Gladden, N. Sathitsuksanoh, Pavan Kambam, et al., One-pot Ionic Liquid Pretreatment and Saccharification of Switchgrass, Green Chem., 2013 (15), 2579-2589.
Sayut, D.J., Kambam P.K. and Sun, L. Enzyme Replacement Therapy for Lysosomal Storage Disorders. Recent Patents on Biomedical Engineering, 2008, 1(2): 141-47
Henson, M.A., Kambam, P.K. and Sun, L. Molecular Level Modeling and Dynamic Systems Analysis of Coupled Multicellular Systems. Proceedings of FOSBE, 2007.
Sayut, D.J., Kambam P.K. and Sun, L. Noise and Kinetics of LuxR Positive Feedback Loops. Biochem Biophys Res Commun, 2007, 363(3):667-73.
Sayut, D.J., Kambam P.K. and Sun, L. Engineering and Applications of Genetic Circuits. Molecular BioSystems, 2007, 3(12):835-40.
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