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Ganesh Sriram (Lab website|UM faculty website|UM faculty profile)

Dr. Ganesh Sriram is Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Affiliate Faculty Member in the Bioengineering and Plant Biology graduate programs at University of Maryland. After earning his bachelor's and master's degrees in chemical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, he graduated a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Iowa State University in 2004, working in the lab of Dr. Jacqueline Shanks. From 2004 to 2007, he was a postdoctoral researcher in the labs of Dr. Katrina Dipple and Dr. James Liao at UCLA.

Dr. Sriram's research interests are metabolic engineering and systems biology, especially metabolic flux analysis and gene regulatory network analysis. See lab research page for more information.

Contact information
1208D Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Bldg. 090 University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-2111 Phone: (301) 405-1261; Fax: (301) 405-0523; Email: gsriram[at]umd[dot]edu

Awards and honors

 * Outstanding Young Engineer Award and Allan C. Davis Medal, Maryland Academy of Sciences and Maryland Science Center, 2011
 * Minta Martin Award, A. James Clark School of Engineering, University of Maryland, 2008
 * Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation Best Presentation Award, Third International Congress on Plant Metabolomics, 2004
 * Metabolic Engineering III Fellowship, Engineering Conferences International, 2000
 * Best Innovative Potential Master’s Thesis Award, Indian National Academy of Engineering, 1999 (Conferred by the Prime Minister of India)
 * Young Scientist Award for Best Research Paper, International Congress for Sustainable Development of Environment, 1997

Professional affiliations

 * Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society
 * American Institute of Chemical Engineers
 * American Chemical Society
 * American Society of Plant Biologists

Selected recent publications
Sriram G, Rahib L, Parr LS, Liao JC, Dipple KM (2010) Moonlighting function of glycerol kinase causes systems-level changes in rat hepatoma cells. Metabolic Engineering 12:332-340. Link

Zheng Y, Sriram G (2010) Mathematical modeling: bridging the gap between concept and realization in synthetic biology. Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology article ID 541609, 16 pages. Link

Rahib L, Sriram G, Harada MK, Liao JC, Dipple KM (2009) Transcriptomic and network component analysis of glycerol kinase in skeletal muscle using a mouse model of glycerol kinase deficiency. Molecular Genetics and Metabolism 96:106-112. Link

Iyer VV, Sriram G, Fulton DB, Zhou R, Westgate ME, Shanks JV (2008) Metabolic flux maps: An effective tool for studying the effect of temperature on protein and oil biosynthesis in developing soybean cotyledons. Plant, Cell, and Environment 31:506-517. Link

Sriram G, Rahib L, He J-S, Campos AE, Liao JC, Dipple KM (2008) Global metabolic changes due to glycerol kinase overexpression in rat liver cells. Molecular Genetics and Metabolism 93:145-159. Link

Sriram G, Iyer VV, Fulton DB, Shanks JV (2007) Identification of hexose hydrolysis products in metabolic flux analytes: A case study of levulinic acid in plant protein hydrolysate. Metabolic Engineering 9: 442-451. Link (Cover article)

Sriram G, Fulton DB, Shanks JV (2007) Flux quantification in central carbon metabolism of Catharanthus roseus hairy roots by 13C labeling and comprehensive bondomer balancing. Phytochemistry 68: 2243-2257. Link