Tasha Desai

Bio

• Currently working as a Senior Scientist for Dial Corporation in Scottsdale, Arizona.
• PhD in Chemical Engineering (2009) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• Masters of Science in Chemical Engineering (2006) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering (2004) from the Texas A&M University.

Graduate Activities

• President of ChBE Graduate Student Advisory Council (2005-2007)
• Teaching Assistant
  • Process Dynamics and Control (Fall 2005)
  • Mass Transfer and Separation Processes (Spring 2006, Spring 2007)
• Department Tutor
  • Material and Energy Balances (Fall 2007)
  • Mass transfer (Spring 2008)

Research

• Studied xylose and arabinose transporters in E. coli (PhD).
• Studied the transcriptional activator, CRP (MS)

Presentations

• AIChE 2008
• ACS 2008
• AIChE 2007
• UIUC Symposium 2007
• AIChE 2006
• UIUC Symposium 2006

Publications

Desai, T. A., D. A. Rodionov, M. S. Gelfand, E. J. Alm, and C. V. Rao. 2009. Engineering transcription factors with novel DNA-binding specificity using comparative genomics. Nucleic Acids Res. 2009 May;37(8):2493-503. Epub 2009 Mar 5.

Contact

tadesai11@gmail.com