Taraka Dale is a Scientist and Principal Investigator in Bioscience Division at LANL. She is a biochemist, with expertise in the design and development of mid- to high throughput assays for applications ranging from nucleic acid:protein interactions to exploring algae and other microorganisms as platforms for making cost effective biofuels and bioproducts. In algae, Dr. Dale’s team is improving the productivity and environmental tolerance of microalgae strains, with an effort towards translating these results to outdoor cultivation. Within the Agile BioFoundry, Dr. Dale is the Strategic Implementation lead.
Projects in the Agile BioFoundry
- Strategic Implementation Lead
Featured Publications
Malathy Krishnamurthy, Scott P. Hennelly, Taraka Dale, Shawn R. Starkenburg, Ricardo Marti-Arbona, David T. Fox, Scott N. Twary, Karissa Y. Sanbonmatsu, Clifford J. Unkefer, “Tunable riboregulator switches for post-transcriptional control of gene expression”, ACS Synthetic Biology, 2015.
Lucas B. Harrington, Ramesh K. Jha, Theresa L. Kern, Emily N. Schmidt, Gustavo M. Canales, Kellan B. Finney, Andrew T. Koppisch, Charlie E.M. Strauss, David T. Fox, “Rapid Thermostabilization of Bacillus thuringiensis Serovar Konkukian 97–27 Dehydroshikimate Dehydratase through a Structure-Based Enzyme Design and Whole Cell Activity Assay”, ACS Synthetic Biology, 2016.
Ramesh K. Jha, Theresa L. Kern, Youngchang Kim, Christine Tesar, Robert Jedrzejczak, Andrzej Joachimiak, Charlie E.M. Strauss, “A microbial sensor for organophosphate hydrolysis exploiting an engineered specificity switch in a transcription factor”, Nucleic Acids Research, 2016.
Ramesh K. Jha, Subhendu Chakraborti, Theresa L. Kern, David T. Fox, Charlie E.M. Strauss, “Rosetta comparative modeling for library design: engineering alternative inducer specificity in a transcription factor” Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics, 2015.
Ramesh K. Jha, Theresa L. Kern, David T. Fox, Charlie E.M. Strauss, “Engineering an Acinetobacter regulon for biosensing and high-throughput enzyme screening in E. coli via flow cytometry”, Nucleic Acids Research, 2014.