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Arunima Bhattacharjee is an Earth scientist at the Environmental and Molecular Science Laboratory on the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory campus. Bhattacharjee has extensive experience in microfabrication, microbial biofilm engineering and microbe-mineral interactions. She pioneered the development of several TerraForms platforms for spatially visualizing biogeochemical processes in reduced complexity environments.

• Mineral-microbe interactions  
• Microbial biofilms 
• Microbial extracellular polymeric substance characterization 

• PhD in Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Irvine 
• MS in Nanoscience, Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University 
• BT in Bioengineering, Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University 

• Schlumberger Faculty for Future Award, Schlumberger Foundation (2015 – 2017) 
• American Society for Microbiology Science Teaching Fellow, American Society for Microbiology (2016) 
• Travel Award, National Science Foundation, American Society for Microbiology (2014) 

2025

• Atoloye I.A., D. Herrera, D. Velickovic, C.S. Clendinen, K.L. Tate, A. Bhattacharjee, and J.A. Aufrecht, et al. 2025. "Insight into industrial hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) root exudation composition in a simulated soil environment: a rhizosphere-on-a-chip study." Rhizosphere 34:Art No. 101099. PNNL-SA-212306. doi:10.1016/j.rhisph.2025.101099

2024

• Guo Y., K.K. Weitz, A.X. Truong, A.G. Ryan, A. Bhattacharjee, and M.S. Lipton. 2024. "Accessing fungal contributions to the Birch Effect: real-time respiration from pore-scale microfluidics." Microorganisms 12, no. 11:Art No. 2295. PNNL-SA-205298. doi:10.3390/microorganisms12112295
• Harrison A.L., J.G. Eder, P.M. Lalli, N. Munoz Munoz, Y. Gao, C.S. Clendinen, and D.J. Orton, et al. 2024. "PeakQC: A Software Tool for Omics-Agnostic Automated Quality Control of Mass Spectrometry Data." Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry 35, no. 11:2680-2689. PNNL-SA-197329. doi:10.1021/jasms.4c00146
• Richardson J., C.R. Anderton, and A. Bhattacharjee. 2024. "Saprotrophic Fungus Induces Microscale Mineral Weathering to Source Potassium in a Carbon-Limited Environment." Minerals 13, no. 5:641. PNNL-SA-190853. doi:10.3390/min13050641
• Richardson J., H. Kim, J.J. Kas, X. You, A. Andersen, B. Ginovska, and A. Bhattacharjee, et al. 2024. "X-ray absorption spectroscopy and theoretical investigations of the effect of extended ligands in potassium organic matter interaction." The Journal of Chemical Physics 160, no. 4:Art. No. 044114. PNNL-SA-186606. doi:10.1063/5.0183603
• Velickovic D., K. Zemaitis, A. Bhattacharjee, and C.R. Anderton. 2024. "Mass spectrometry imaging of natural carbonyl products directly from agar-based microbial interactions using 4-APEBA derivatization." mSystems 9, no. 1:Art. No. e00803-23. PNNL-SA-184809. doi:10.1128/msystems.00803-23

2023

• Taylor M.J., H. Kim, W.R. Kew, A. Andersen, A. Bhattacharjee, M.H. Engelhard, and C.R. Anderton. 2023. "Atomistic simulations for investigation of substrate effects on lipid in-source fragmentation in Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry." Biointerphases 18, no. 1:Art. No. 011003. PNNL-SA-179210. doi:10.1116/6.0002298

2022

• Bhattacharjee A., O. Qafoku, J. Richardson, L.N. Anderson, K.C. Schwarz, L.M. Bramer, and G.X. Lomas, et al. 2022. "A Mineral-Doped Micromodel Platform Demonstrates Fungal Bridging of Carbon Hot Spots and Hyphal Transport of Mineral-Derived Nutrients." mSystems 7, no. 6:Art. No. e00913-22. PNNL-SA-167557. doi:10.1128/msystems.00913-22

2021

• Lukowski J.K., A. Bhattacharjee, S. Yannarell, K.C. Schwarz, L. Shor, E.A. Shank, and C.R. Anderton. 2021. "Expanding the molecular coverage in mass spectrometry imaging of microbial systems using metal-assisted laser desorption/ionization." Microbiology Spectrum 9, no. 1:Article No. e00520-21. PNNL-SA-162394. doi:10.1128/Spectrum.00520-21
• Velickovic D., A. Bhattacharjee, and A. Ahkami. 2021. Deciphering exopolysaccharide functional specificity via visualization of chemical motifs that mediate microbial-microenvironment interactions in soil micromodels. PNNL-31973. Richland, WA: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Deciphering exopolysaccharide functional specificity via visualization of chemical motifs that mediate microbial-microenvironment interactions in soil micromodels

2020 

Bhattacharjee, A., A. M. Thompson, K. C. Schwarz, M. C. Burnet, Y. M. Kim, J. R. Nunez, S. J. Fansler, Y. Farris, C. J. Brislawn, T. O. Metz, R. S. McClure, R. S. Renslow, L. Shor, J. K. Jansson, K. S. Hofmockel, and C. R. Anderton. 2020. “Soil Microbial EPS Resiliency Is Influenced by Carbon Source Accessibility.” Soil Biology and Biochemistry 151. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2020.108037. 

Bhattacharjee, A., D. Velickovic, T. W. Wietsma, S. L. Bell, J. K. Jansson, K. S. Hofmockel, and C. R. Anderton. 2020. “Visualizing Microbial Community Dynamics Via a Controllable Soil Environment.” mSystems 5 (1). https://doi.org/10.1128/mSystems.00645-19. 

Veličković, D., G. Zhang, D. Bezbradica, A. Bhattacharjee, L. Paša-Tolić, K. Sharma, T. Alexandrov, C. R. Anderton, and K. Consortium. 2020. “Response Surface Methodology as a New Approach for Finding Optimal MALDI Matrix Spraying Parameters for Mass Spectrometry Imaging.” Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry 31 (3): 508-516. https://doi.org/10.1021/jasms.9b00074. 

D. Naylor, N. Sadler, A. Bhattacharjee, E. B. Graham, C. R. Anderton, R. McClure, M. Lipton, K. S. Hofmockel, and J. K. Jansson, Soil Microbiomes Under Climate Change and Implications for Carbon Cycling, Annual Reviews of the Environment and Resources, 45 (2020).