Microbial Engineering Grad Program Directory
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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) |
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Brett Barney Associate Professor, Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering Microbial Engineering Graduate Program Protein engineering and design, Synthetic biology |
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Jannell Bazurto Assistant Professor, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology Microbial Engineering Graduate Program Microbial physiology and systems biology Regulatory mechanisms that allow organisms to thrive on potently toxic metabolites; bacterial physiology, metabolic stress, methylobacterium. |
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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 |
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Daniel Bond Professor, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology Microbial Engineering Graduate Program Microbial physiology and systems biology Physiology and functional genomics of dissimilatory metal-reducing bacteria; Microbial interactions with electrodes |
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Mark Distefano Professor, Department of Chemistry Microbial Engineering Graduate Program Computational biology, Synthetic biology Molecular recognition and catalysis in the context of proteins, and the process of protein prenylation |
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Mikael Elias Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics Microbial Engineering Graduate Program Biomanufacturing, Protein engineering and design, Synthetic biology Microbial enzymes and systems with potential use in industry or bio-remediation, specifically, the cellular phosphate uptake mechanism. |
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Kathryn Fixen Assistant Professor, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology Microbial Engineering Graduate Program Biomanufacturing, Bioremediation and resource recovery, Computational biology, Microbial physiology and systems biology, Synthetic biology |
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Mike Freeman Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics Microbial Engineering Graduate Program Biomanufacturing, Synthetic biology Natural product biosynthesis, microbial genetics, targeted metagenomics |
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Jeff Gralnick Professor, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology Microbial Engineering Graduate Program Microbial physiology and systems biology, Synthetic biology Microbial physiology, synthetic biology, geomicrobiology |