Engineering Biology
Energy Challenge:

Reduce global energy consumption.

Develop organismal bio-processes that enable the production of energy from (currently) atypical sources.

Engineering Biology Objectives & Technical Achievements

Enable seawater fermentation.

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Develop tools/methods for editing the chromosomes of microbes resident in seawater.

Biosynthetic pathways active in halophilic/hypersaline conditions.

Develop robust genome engineering for halophiles (e.g., Vibrio natriegens).

Engineer resistance to phage/toxins.

Strict biocontainment strategies for potential engineered organisms deployment.

Modeling of organism fitness in seawater.

Enable wastewater fermentation.

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Develop tools/methods for editing the chromosomes of microbes resident in wastewater treatment facilities.

Engineer enzymes to convert fats in wastewater to hydrocarbons.

Engineer resistance to phage/toxins.

Strict biocontainment strategies for potential engineered organisms deployment.

Engineer microbes for ammonium oxidation, denitrification, and polyphosphate accumulation.

Model competition of microbes in wastewater treatment facilities to predict survival of engineered organisms.

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