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Biki Bapi Kundu

Rice UniversityORCID 0000-0002-2550-4585Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Synthetic Biology· 1 Systems Biology· 1

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Approach:experimental assay· 2 Organism:E. coli· 1 Assay:metabolomics· 1

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Caroline Marie Ajo-FrankliniD· 2 shared Arjun PateliD· 1 shared Bernhard Ørn PalssoniD· 1 shared Daniel Craig ZielinskiiD· 1 shared Duolong ZhuiD· 1 shared Jayanth KrishnaniD· 1 shared Kundan SahaiD· 1 shared Richard SzubiniD· 1 shared

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Synthetic microbial co-cultures for modular bioelectronic sensing in diverse environments

Siliang Li, Duolong Zhu, Kundan Saha, Biki Bapi Kundu, Sameer Sonkusale, Robert A. Britton, Caroline Marie Ajo-Franklin

The paper introduces a modular bioelectronic sensor system using synthetic microbial co-cultures to detect various analytes in different environments.

Nature Biotechnology · Apr 17, 2026Peer-reviewedSynthetic Biology

Extracellular Respiration is a Latent Energy Metabolism in Escherichia coli

Biki Bapi Kundu, Jayanth Krishnan, Richard Szubin, Arjun Patel, Bernhard Ørn Palsson, Daniel Craig Zielinski, Caroline Marie Ajo-Franklin

The paper demonstrates that Escherichia coli can utilize extracellular electron transfer via 2-hydroxy-1,4-naphthoquinone to support anaerobic growth, revealing a new energy metabolism pathway.

bioRxiv · May 30, 2024 · PreprintSystems Biology