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Efflux Pumps provide a direct mechanism to alleviate product toxicity (Image prepared by Everett Kaplan (JBEI)) Welcome to the Mukhopadhyay Group page!! We are an interdisciplinary team at the Berkeley Lab studying signaling and stress response in both environmental and engineered organisms. We are part of the ENIGMA project where our research includes the study of two component signaling the model sulfate reducing bacterium Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough. As part of the Joint BioEnergy Institute we adopt targeted and systems biology approaches to elucidate causes of inhibition during fuel production from lignocellulose using the host microbes such as Escherichia coli and Saccharomyces cerevisiae. We hope to engineer better hosts for fuel production and develop tools that are universally useful for microbial cellular engineering. Recently we have also become interested in studying signaling and response in cyanobacteria that dominate desert soil crusts. More about Aindrila GROUP NEWS!! Oct 15th 2011 (Lara at the Soil crust display at the Berkeley Lab open house) Lara and Eric's D. vulgaris Response Regulator map paper is out in Genome Biology. Sept 27th 2011 (Photo by Roy Kaltschmidt, Berkeley Lab) Mario (in the blue lab coat!!) features in the Berkeley Lab news letter TABL for his important contribution in developing Bisabolene production in yeast. Here is a link to Pamela and TaekSoon's Nature Communications paper August 22nd 2011 Zain, Heather and Aindrila feature on the cover of the Biorefining magazine. Here is the article. July 1st 2011 Our efflux pump paper gets a mention in the Microbe magazine. Other mentions of our study are in eureka alert, techblog, science daily, microbeworld, Materials Today to list a few!!!