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This Week in Chemical Engineering - Food, Pharmaceutical & Bioengineering Spotlight: July 29, 2019

Don't miss out on the latest business and technology news for chemical engineers, featuring select items in relation to Food, Pharmaceuticals & Bioengineering!

Hailong Wang

Hailong Wang is a distinguished professor in environmental science at School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Foshan University, China. He is also an adjunct professor at Zhejiang University and Zhejiang A&F University. His research program focuses mainly on environmental functions of biochar and environmental remediation. He has published more than180 papers in SCI journals, including 14 ESI highly cited papers. Prof. Wang is the Director of Biochar Engineering Technology Research Center of Guangdong Province, China, a director of the Biochar Industry Technology Innovation...Read more

Dr. Peter Hegemann

Peter Hegemann is a Hertie professor for neuroscience and head of Experimental Biophysics at Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin. Hegemanns research focused almost entirely on the characterization of natural sensory photoreceptors. Hegemann has characterized behavioral and photoelectric responses of the unicellular alga Chlamydomonas, a work that cumulated in the claim that the photoreceptors for these responses a rhodopsins that unify the sensor and ion channel in one protein. He has finally proven this concept by identifying the light gated channel channelrhodopsin, and its functionality in...Read more

Robert W. Gereau IV

The Gereau laboratory is interested in determining the cellular, circuit and molecular changes that underlie the development of chronic pain conditions. His lab utilizes a combination of behavioral studies, electrophysiology, optogenetics, in vivo imaging, molecular and genetic approaches to understand the signaling pathways, cells and circuits involved in nervous system plasticity that underlies pain sensitization. The lab mission is to identify novel approaches to reverse this maladaptive plasticity to provide new therapeutic strategies to reduce pain and its impact on patient quality of...Read more

Ed Daniels

Ed has been with the REMADE Institute since December 2017.  Prior to joining REMADE, Ed was with Argonne National Laboratory for 32 years.  During his career at Argonne, his research focused on the development of sustainable manufacturing processes, in collaboration with the iron and steel, aluminum, chemicals, automotive and recycling industries.  His last assignment at Argonne was as the Deputy Associate Laboratory Director for the Energy and Global Security Directorate. The research activities of the directorate included nuclear engineering, decision and information...Read more

Sotirios Kampranis

My work aims to make bioproduction of high-value chemicals a custom and robust approach, in which well-defined biosynthetic parts are readily combined in "smart chassis" to yield custom products. This will enable biological synthesis to replicate what organic chemical synthesis does today, where scientists synthesize molecules by knowledge of the reaction rules and conditions and established starting material and equipment.

Research in my group involves a multi-disciplinary approach that begins with the identification of the biosynthetic pathways, continues with the engineering...Read more

Alison Smith

Alison Smith is Professor of Plant Biochemistry and Head of Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Cambridge.  She received a BSc in Biochemistry from the University of Bristol, and then an MPhil and PhD from the University of Cambridge. After a postdoctoral position she was appointed to the Faculty in Cambridge in 1984, and was promoted to Professor in 2007. Her research interests are focussed around the metabolism of plants, algae and bacteria, in particular of vitamins and cofactors, and more recently for compounds of commercial interest such as high-value compounds and...Read more

Andres Trikkel

Dr. Andres Trikkel is a Professor of Technology of Inorganic Materials and the Head of Laboratory of Inorganic Materials in the Department of Materials and Environmental Technology at Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech). He also received his PhD in Chemical Engineering from TalTech.

Dr. Trikkel is the principal investigator of the state budget research project of Estonian Ministry of Education, focusing on fundamentals of multicomponent mineral-organic systems: chemistry, modeling and sustainable processing. He further leads projects on conversion of fly ash to valuable...Read more

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