Claudia has over 20 years’ experience working in basic and applied R&D in academia, government research, and industry. She has deep experience in development of science strategy and management of large research programs, and a strong track record in science excellence and attraction of competitive funding. Her research focuses on metabolic engineering of microbes for production of proteins, high value ingredients, and other industrially useful biochemicals. She has worked for over a decade to build the synthetic biology R&D community in Australia, including co-founding...Read more
Dr. Elke Nevoigt is an Associate Professor for Molecular Biotechnology at Jacobs University in Bremen, Germany. Previously, she worked as an expert scientist at the KU Leuven Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, as well as a visiting scientist in the Department of Chemical Engineering at MIT. She received her Ph.D. as well as completed post-doctoral research at the Berlin University of Technology.Read more
Process intensification and big data will be investigated as part of a new Industry 4.0 Topical Conference — just one of the offerings at AIChE’s 2018 Spring Meeting and 14th Global Congress on Process Safety (GCPS), April 22–26 at the Orlando World...
February
2018
Epigenetics — the study of how our actions and experiences mark or modify our DNA — can explain some unusual genetic findings.
February
2018
Recently, I had meetings with AIChE staff in the New York City home office. To get there, I flew in and out of LaGuardia airport, and on my return home, I traveled on an Airbus A320. The significance of the aircraft was that it was the same model...
February
2018
Kristala Jones Prather, the Arthur D. Little Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), is developing promising strategies for designing and assembling new biosynthetic pathways in engineered microbes. She...
February
2018
Most incidents have multiple causes. For each of these incidents, contamination was a contributing factor. Incident 1. A closed valve isolated a pipe containing an organic residue from distillation processes and liquid from process vent systems. The...
February
2018
Heat Transfer Condensing Boiler Has a Flexible Design for Easy Field Access The Free Flex condensing boiler has a 95% thermal efficiency and a weld-free construction. The heat exchanger can be easily accessed in the field for cleaning. The boiler is...
