Industrial Biotechnology and Bioprocessing Directory

Headshot of Al Aksan Alptekin Aksan

Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Microbial Engineering Graduate Program

Bioremediation and resource recovery, Industrial biotechnology and bioprocessing, Synthetic biology

Stabilization and preservation of biological materials within synthetic materials (bioencapsulation)

Portrait of Sebastian Behrens Sebastian Behrens

Associate Professor, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo-Engineering

Microbial Engineering Graduate Program

Bioremediation and resource recovery, Industrial biotechnology and bioprocessing, Microbial physiology and systems biology

Microbial processes for bioremediation of (in)organic environmental contaminants and the recovery of resources from municipal/industrial wastes

Portrait of Bo Hu Bo Hu

Professor, Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering

Microbial Engineering Graduate Program

Biomanufacturing, Bioremediation and resource recovery, Industrial biotechnology and bioprocessing

Development of bioprocessing technologies to convert agricultural residue and waste materials to value-added chemicals and biofuels

Headshot of Wei-Shou Hu Wei-Shou Hu

Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science

Microbial Engineering Graduate Program

Biomanufacturing, Industrial biotechnology and bioprocessing

Cell culture technology, tissue engineering, and metabolic engineering

Alex Khoruts headshot Alex Khoruts

Professor of Medicine, Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition; Microbiology Immunology and Cancer Biology Program

Biomanufacturing, Bioremediation and resource recovery, Computational biology, Industrial biotechnology and bioprocessing, Microbial physiology and systems biology

Microbiota-host interactions in health and disease

Headshot of Vincent Noireaux Vincent Noireaux

Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy

Biomanufacturing, Bioremediation and resource recovery, Industrial biotechnology and bioprocessing, Protein engineering and design, Synthetic biology

Cell-free synthetic biology; cell-free gene expression; gene circuits; bacteriophages; synthetic cell systems; biological physics

Jonathan Schilling portrait Jonathan Schilling

Professor, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology

Bioremediation and resource recovery, Industrial biotechnology and bioprocessing, Microbial physiology and systems biology

I study microbial decomposers, most often the fungi and their biology/biochemistry.