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Joanne Rodriguez

Joanne Rodriguez is the Founder & CEO of Mycocycle, Inc., which uses mushrooms to remove toxins from waste. Recognized for her innovation by Forbes Magazine, FastCompany, and the EPA she is shifting the paradigm on how we view waste: as a reusable resource, not a burden. 

Prior to founding Mycocycle, Joanne headed an environmental consulting firm (GreenStructure) and continues to be recognized as a sustainability leader in the construction products manufacturing industry. She is a specialist in technologies like circular economy, biomimicry, and...Read more

Douglas Wicks

Dr. Douglas Wicks currently serves as a Program Director at the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA E). His focus at ARPA-E is on waste-to-energy technologies.  

Wicks joins ARPA-E from Imerys, a French industrial minerals production and processing company, where he was most recently the Director of Transformational and External Innovation. At Imerys, he developed an innovation network comprised of academic, contract research organizations, start-ups and strategic partners. Before joining Imerys, Wicks worked in a variety of roles at several start-up companies...Read more

H2 Incident - H2 Explosion at Power Station

Menu Lessons Learned References Download PDF This record is the intellectual property of the Center for Hydrogen Safety (CHS) for use by its members and should not be disseminated to nonmembers without written permission by CHS. Incident Date: August 8, 2021 Record Date: August, 2021 A coal fired...

Nandini Krishnamurthy

Nandini Krishnamurthy leads Inscripta’s Microbial Business Unit developing strategy and applications for the Onyx platform enabling massively parallel genome engineering in microbes. She has more than 15 years of research and development experience leading at the interface of experimental and computational biology. Most recently she served as Senior Research Manager, at Corteva Agriscience responsible for delivering innovative solutions in diverse trait areas using genome editing technology in multiple crops to drive differential advantage in the market. Prior to this, she has served in...Read more

FEED Member-only Content

SBE Special Edition A Better Burger Catalyzing Commercialization Could Cell-Based Meat Replace Factory Farming Engineering Industrial Enzymes Essentials of Continuous Evaporation FEW Nexus Going Against the Grain_ Vertical Farming in the City Improving Food Safety Introduction to Electron-Beam Food...

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