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Hal S. AlperProfessor & Cockrell Family Regents Chair in EngineeringDepartment of Chemical EngineeringUniversity of Texas-AustinAustin, TX Beyond the test-tube: metabolic engineering for next-generation applications Advances in metabolic engineering and synthetic biology can enable microbes to produce nearly any organic molecule of interest—from biofuels to biopolymers to pharmaceuticals. While this approach has fueled the industrial biotechnology,...

Phil ChristopherUniversity of California, Santa BarbaraSanta Barbara, CA Catalyst deactivation: Mechanisms, stability by design, and pathways to machine-learned models Supported metal catalysts are used ubiquitously in industrial applications for energy conversion, material/chemical manufacturing, and pollution mitigation. Fundamental research often focuses on elucidating structure-function relationships that connect active site structures and compositions to their reactivities. Relationships...

Kate GallowayMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyCambridge, MA Engineering high-precision, dynamic genetic control systems for cell fate programming Integrating synthetic circuitry into larger transcriptional networks to mediate predictable cellular behaviors remains a challenge within synthetic biology. In particular, the stochastic nature of transcription makes coordinating expression across multiple genetic elements difficult. Further, delivery of large genetic cargoes...