BO HU

Professor
Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering

PhD, Biological Systems Engineering, Washington State University, 2007

bhu@umn.edu
bohu.cfans.umn.edu

Research Interests

Development of bioprocessing technologies to convert agricultural residue and waste materials to value-added chemicals and biofuels. Research areas include biomass utilization, industrial fermentation, waste management and treatment.

Bio

Bo Hu is interested in biomass utilization, industrial fermentation, waste management and treatment. His research primarily focuses on the development of bioprocessing technologies to convert agricultural residue and waste materials to value-added chemicals and biofuels. The Bo lab has established several new cultivation methods, such as solid state cultivation, pelletized cultivation of fungi and algae, and cultivation of lichen biofilm.

WEI-SHOU HU

Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science

PhD, Biochemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1983

acre@cems.umn.edu
hugroup.cems.umn.edu

Research Interests

Cell culture technology, tissue engineering, and metabolic engineering; emphasis on the application of engineering analysis to biochemical and cellular systems and on the incorporation of physiological insight into the quantitative modeling of biological systems.

Bio

Wei-Shou Hu’s interests encompass cell engineering, tissue engineering and metabolic engineering. The emphasis of his research is on the application of systems analysis to biochemical and cellular systems and on the incorporation of physiological insight into the quantitative modeling of biological reactions. The systems employed in his work include mammalian cells, differentiated tissue cells and microorganisms. Current research efforts in the Hu lab emphasize employing genomic and proteomic tools in those research projects and exploring novel modeling approaches for quantitative description of cellular processes.

SATOSHI ISHII

Associate Professor
Department of Soil, Water, and Climate

PhD, Soil Science (major) and Microbial Ecology (minor), University of Minnesota, 2007

ishi0040@umn.edu
ishii-lab.umn.edu

Research Interests

Applied microbiology and biotechnology with focus on nitrogen pollution and occurrences of pathogens: microbiological (single-cell isolation), analytical (stable isotope analysis, microsensor measurements), molecular biological (gene manipulation), omics technologies (genomics, metagenomics, meta transcriptomics, high-throughput sequencing, bioinformatics), and engineering (bioreactors, mathematical modeling).

Bio

Satoshi Ishii aims to solve environmental problems by applying microbiology and biotechnology approaches. The current focuses of his work are (1) nitrogen pollution and (2) the occurrences of pathogens in various environments (soil, water, sediment, etc). The Ishii lab uses multiple approaches to answer fundamental and applied scientific questions, including microbiological, analytical, molecular biological, omics technologies, and engineering approaches.

Romas Kazlauskas

Professor
Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics 

PhD, Mechanisms of Organometallic Reactions, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

rjk@umn.edu
cbs.umn.edu/contacts/romas-j-kazlauskas/lab

Research Interests

Green (sustainable) chemistry, enzyme modeling, enzyme design, and enzyme engineering.

Bio

Romas Kazlauskas seeks to use enzymatic processes to replace some of the chemical processes that are ubiquitous in the modern world. Choosing biological pathways rather than chemical ones can provide many advantages, such as making reactions faster and more selective, and producing less waste, and through their work, the Kazlauskas lab hopes to create more efficient syntheses that minimize pollution and avoid toxic and non-selective chemical reagents. Outside of his professional work, Romas enjoys hiking, canoeing, and going into nature