Technical Themes

The roadmap’s technical themes focus on novel capabilities to mitigate and adapt to the effects of climate change and build and ensure resilient ecosystems. The Biosequestration of Greenhouse Gases theme addresses opportunities to capture and remove carbon dioxide, methane, and other harmful gases from the atmosphere and enable and strengthen carbon storage and conversion. The Mitigation of Environmental Pollution theme highlights opportunities to prevent and tackle pollution through bioremediation, biosequestration, and biodegradation of contaminants in the environment and from point-sources. And the Conservation of Ecosystems and Biodiversity theme addresses opportunities for engineering biology to contribute to the monitoring of ecosystem members and their health, distribution, and diversity, and pinpoints the need for strong biocontainment strategies that are necessary for all engineering biology applications.

• Biosequestration of Greenhouse Gases

  Addresses engineering biology opportunities to capture and remove carbon dioxide, methane, and other harmful gases from the atmosphere and enable and strengthen carbon storage and conversion.

• Mitigation of Environmental Pollution

  Addresses engineering biology opportunities to prevent and tackle pollution through bioremediation, biosequestration, and biodegradation of contaminants.

• Conservation of Ecosystems and Biodiversity

  Addresses engineering biology opportunities for monitoring of ecosystems and their health, distribution, and diversity, and for strong biocontainment strategies.

Applications & Impact Sectors

The roadmap also focuses on climate-friendly, sustainable products and solutions for chief engineering biology application sectors. The Food & Agriculture theme addresses specific opportunities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from food production and waste and towards making agriculture and food systems more robust to climate change. The Transportation & Energy theme addresses opportunities in biofuels, electricity production and storage, and reducing emissions from transportation, shipping, and aviation. Finally, the Materials Production & Industrial Processes theme identifies opportunities in the built environment, textiles, and other consumer products for reducing the anthropogenic carbon footprint, reducing toxins and wastes, and recovering economically-valuable resources sustainably.

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  Food & Agriculture

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  Transportation & Energy

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  Materials Production & Industrial Processes

Social and Nontechnical Dimensions Case Studies

The social and nontechnical dimensions case studies provide context and framing for the questions and considerations that can be asked and addressed during research and development, and are intended to be used as a discussion and learning tool by engineering biology researchers and their collaborators.

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Glossary

The glossary presents definitions and description of some of the key terms and concepts found in the roadmap. The glossary is specific to the context of this roadmap.

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Contributors

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  Khalid Alam
  Stemloop, Inc.
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  Thomas Alexander
  North Carolina State University
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  Matt Amrofell
  Washington University in St. Louis
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  Peter Andeer
  Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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  Adam Arkin
  University of California, Berkeley
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  Emily R. Aurand
  EBRC
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  Ania-Ariadna Baetica
  University of California, San Francisco
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  Debjyoti Banerjee
  Texas A&M University
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  Robert Benisch
  University of Michigan
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  Roel Bovenberg
  DSM
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  Nicole Buan
  University of Nebraska, Lincoln
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  James Carothers
  University of Washington
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  Yonatan Chemla
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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  Sifang Chen
  EBRC
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  Kung-Hui (Bella) Chu
  Texas A&M University
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  Patrick Cirino
  University of Houston
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  Carrie Cizauskas
  Independent
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  Leah Davis
  Rowan University
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  John J. Desmarais
  University of California, Berkeley
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  James Diggans
  Twist Bioscience Corporation
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  David Ding
  Univ. of California, Berkeley/DOE Joint Genome Institute
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  Kaitlyn Duvall
  EBRC
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  Robert Egbert
  Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
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  Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh
  Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
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  Amin Espah Borujeni
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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  Trent Evans
  Washington University
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  Sam Weiss Evans
  Harvard University
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  Mike Fero
  TeselaGen Biotechnology, Inc.
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  Paul Freemont
  Imperial College London
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  Emily (Emm) Fulk
  Rice University
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  Ute Galm
  Curie Co.
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  Annelise Goldman
  Rice University
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  Daniel Goodwin
  Homeworld Collective
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  Jeffrey Gralnick
  University of Minnesota
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  Maneesh Gupta
  Air Force Research Laboratory
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  Karmella Haynes
  Emory University
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  Albert Hinman
  EBRC
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  India Hook-Barnard
  EBRC
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  Michael Jewett
  Northwestern University
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  Lauren Junker
  BASF
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  Cholpisit (Ice) Kiattisewee
  University of Washington
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  Michael Köepke
  LanzaTech
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  Brandon Lam
  Ginkgo Bioworks
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  Isaac Larkin
  FreeGenes Project
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  Kok Zhi Lee
  Purdue University
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  Allen (Seung Hwan) Lee
  Rice University
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  Angela Lee
  EBRC
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  Chien-Yuan Lin
  Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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  Kanya Long
  University of California, San Diego
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  Julius Lucks
  Northwestern University
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  Rebecca Mackelprang
  EBRC
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  Krishna Mahadevan
  University of Toronto
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  Cecilia Martinez-Gomez
  University of California, Berkeley
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  Caroline Masiello
  Rice University
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  Carolyn Mills
  Northwestern University
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  Tae Seok Moon
  Washington University in St. Louis
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  Steven Moss
  National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
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  Nik Nair
  Tufts University
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  Cynthia Ni
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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  Trent Northen
  Lawrence Berkeley Lab
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  Javin Oza
  California Polytechnic State University
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  Megan Palmer
  Stanford University
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  Marilene Pavan
  LanzaTech
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  Paul Reginato
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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  Marianela Rodriguez-Carres
  BASF
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  Howard Salis
  Pennsylvania State University
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  Dan Siegal
  Ginkgo Bioworks
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  Pamela Silver
  Harvard Medical School
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  Blake Simmons
  Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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  Chuck Smallwood
  Sandia National Laboratories
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  Kevin Solomon
  Purdue University; current affiliation University of Delaware
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  Liz Specht
  The Good Food Institute
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  Amy Stoddard
  Boston University
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  Emily Stoler
  Zymergen
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  Tyler Stukenbroeker
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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  Sean Sullivan
  Tufts University
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  Yinjie Tang
  Washington University in St. Louis
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  Bishal Thapa
  University of Idaho
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  Kersh Thevasundaram
  University of California, Berkeley
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  Esteban Toro
  Twist Bioscience
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  Tyler Toth
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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  Cara Tracewell
  Arzeda
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  Danielle Tullman-Ercek
  Northwestern University
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  Julia Turnšek
  University of California, Berkeley
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  Matthew Tuttle
  University of Tennessee, Knoxville
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  Ginni Ursin
  Independent
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  Natanya Villegas
  University of Oregon
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  Camille Wolf
  University of California, Davis
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  Quanhui Ye
  University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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  Yasuo Yoshikuni
  Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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  Jesse Zalatan
  University of Washington
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  Yan Zhang
  Georgia Institute of Technology
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  Laurie Zoloth
  University of Chicago