Apt #20, 707 W Treadwell Street

Fayetteville, Arkansas
406-363-8435
rpmukher@uark.edu

Rudra Palash Mukherjee
Skills
Protein expression, bio-reactor set up and operation, batch and fed-batch fermentation, cell culture, protein
harvesting and purification, prokaryotic molecular biology techniques
Education
University Of Arkansas, Fayeteville, AR
Doctoral Student and Research Assistant
January 2012 - Present
Working on recombinant protein expression to model and solve the problem of inclusion body formation in
Escherichia coli under the guidance of Dr. Robert Beitle
National Institute Of Technology (NIT), Durgapur, India
Bachelor of Technology, Chemical Engineering
August 2007 May 2011
Worked on a project to develop an appropriate model to describe the pyrolysis of biomass particle and
waste tyre (2010-2011) under the guidance of Dr. Parthapratim Gupta
Professional
Experience
Indian Insttute of Technology (IIT), Gandhinagar, India
Research Intern, September 2011-October 2011

International Business Machines (IBM), Bangalore, India
Associate System Engineer , May 2011-August 2011

Indian Institute Of Technology (IIT), Hyderabad, India
Summer Research Intern, May 2010 July 2010
Publications
V. P. Yadav, R. P. Mukherjee, K. Bantraj, Sunil. K. Maity, Kinetic Modeling of esterification of Ethylene Glycol
with Acetic Acid in the International Conference on Modeling, Optimization, and Computing, October 28-30,
2010 (pp 685-693)
R.P. Mukherjee, A.Bhattacharya, S.Gupta, S.Dutta, Adsorptive removal of methylene blue using citrus fruit
peel and charred citrus fruit peel: A comparative study, National Seminar on Wealth from Waste organized by
National Environmental Science Academy, September 5-6, 2009 (pp-12-13)
Positions of
Responsibility
Social Chair, Association of Chemical Engineering Graduate Students (ACHEGS), University of Arkansas
(August 2013- Present)
Core Member, International Cultural Team International Students and Scholars Office at the University of
Arkansas. (August 2011-Present)

Editor of the magazine published by Chemical Engineering Student Society, National Institute of Technology,
Durgapur (2009-2011)