Ava Karanjia

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Ava Karanjia
Bagley Hall 411
(206) 685-2431
karanjia at uw
  • Graduate Student ¦ 
Chemical Engineering ¦ 
University of Washington

Ava is working to regulate transcriptional programs in non-model bacteria for metabolic engineering applications. Ava is a joint student with the Carothers lab.

Education: 

B.S.E. ¦ 
Chemical Engineering ¦ 
Arizona State University ¦ 
2016–2020
B.S. ¦ 
Microbiology ¦ 
Arizona State University ¦ 
2016–2020

Awards: 

NSF Graduate Research Fellow ¦ 

Publications: 

At UW
Kiattisewee, C.*, Karanjia, A.V.*, Legut, M., Daniloski, Z., Koplik, S.E., Nelson, J., Kleinstiver, B.P., Sanjana, N.E., Carothers, J.M., Zalatan, J.G. "Expanding the scope of bacterial CRISPR activation with PAM-flexible dCas9 variants." ACS Synth. Biol. 2022, 11, 4103-4122.

Before UW
Davis TJ, Karanjia AV, Bhebhe CN, West SB, Richardson M, Bean HD. Pseudomonas aeruginosa Volatilome Characteristics and Adaptations in Chronic Cystic Fibrosis Lung Infections. mSphere. 2020 Oct 7;5(5):e00843-20. doi: 10.1128/mSphere.00843-20. PMID: 33028687; PMCID: PMC7568651.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33028687/