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Duraj Lab at Virginia Tech
Selected Journal Publications
Mechanically Tunable, Compostable, Healable and Scalable Engineered Living Materials
Avinash Manjula-Basavanna, Anna M. Duraj-Thatte, Neel S. Joshi
bioRxiv, 2024.01. 31.578234, under review
Engineering the gut microbiome
Xiaowu Bai, Ziyu Huang, Anna M. Duraj-Thatte, Matthias P. Ebert, Fen Zhang, Elke Burgermeister, Xue Liu, Benjamin M. Scott, Guoxin Li & Tao Zuo
Nature Reviews Bioengineering, 2023 1, 665–679
Programmable microbial ink for 3D printing of living materials produced from genetically engineered protein nanofibers
Anna M. Duraj-Thatte, Avinash MB, Hassan S, Sourlis A, Xia J, Lesha A, Rubio AG, Rutledge J, Zhang SY, Joshi NS
Nature Communications, 2021, 12, 6600
Water-Processable, Biodegradable and Coatable Aquaplastic from Engineered Microbial Biofilms
Anna M Duraj-Thatte, Avinash MB, N. M. D. Courchesne, G. Cannici, A. Sánchez-Ferrer, B. P. Frank, L. van 't Hag, S. K. Cotts, D. H. Fairbrother, R. Mezzenga, Joshi NS
Nature Chemical Biology, 2021, 17, 732-738
Robust Self-regeneratable Stiff Living Material Fabricated from Microbial Cells
Avinash MB, Anna M Duraj-Thatte, Joshi NS
Advanced Functional Materials 2021, 31, 2010784
Engineered E. coli Nissle 1917 for the delivery of matrix-tethered therapeutic domains to the gut
Praveschotinunt P, Duraj-Thatte A, Gelfat I, Bahl F, Chou DB, Joshi NS
Nature Communications 2019,10, 5580
Genetically programmable self‐regenerating bacterial hydrogels
Duraj-Thatte A, Dorval Courchesne NM, Praveschotinunt P, Rutledge J, Lee Y, Karp JM, Joshi NS
Advanced Materials 2019, 31(40),1901826
Biomimetic engineering of conductive curli protein films
Dorval Courchesne NM, DeBenedictis EP, Tresback J, Kim JJ, Duraj-Thatte A, Zanuy D, Keten S, Joshi NS
Nanotechnology 2018, 29 (45), 454002
Fabrication of amyloid curli fibers–alginate nanocomposite hydrogels with enhanced stiffness
Axpe E, Duraj-Thatte A, Chang Y, Kaimaki DM, Sanchez-Sanchez A., Burak Caliskan H, Dorval Courchesne NM, Joshi NS
ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering 2018, 4 (6), 2100
Engineered living materials: prospects and challenges for using biological systems to direct the assembly of smart materials
Nguyen PQ, Dorval Courchesne NM, Duraj-Thatte A, Praveschotinunt P, Joshi NS
Advanced Materials 2018, 30 (19), 1704847
Modulating bacterial and gut mucosal interactions with engineered biofilm matrix proteins
Duraj-Thatte A, Praveschotinunt P, Nash T, Ward F, Joshi NS
Scientific reports 2018, 8 (1), 3475
Scalable Production of Genetically Engineered Nanofibrous Materials via Filtration
Dorval Courchesne NM, Duraj-Thatte A, Tay P.K.R., Joshi NS
ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering 2016, 3 (5), 733
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