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Fredrick Jenet

Dr. Fredrick Jenet is the founder and executive director of Expanding Frontiers, a nonprofit organization based in Brownsville, Texas, with a mission to foster the growth of a commercial space ecosystem. Dr. Jenet is an experienced entrepreneur, visionary researcher, and innovative educator, having founded several initiatives in Texas that are fostering the development of a state and national ecosystem for space exploration and commercialization. He is the founder of the Center for Advanced Radio Astronomy, the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley’s first center of excellence, as well as...Read more

Reginald Rogers, Jr.: Featured LGBTQ+ ChemE Professional

May 18, 2022
June 9, 2022

Meet Reginald and hear about his work at the University of Missouri, about his coming out story, and his interests outside chemical engineering.

James Nuñez

Dr. James Nuñez is an Assistant Professor in Molecular and Cell Biology at UC Berkeley. He earned his Ph.D. in 2016 from Jennifer Doudna’s lab at UC Berkeley, where he determined the molecular mechanism of foreign DNA capture by the Cas1-Cas2 integrase complex during CRISPR–Cas immunity in bacteria. He was awarded a graduate fellowship from the National Science Foundation and a Harold Weintraub Award from the Fred Hutch Cancer Research Center for his PhD research. Dr. Nuñez continued his training as a HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow in Jonathan Weissman’s lab at UCSF, where he developed genome-wide...Read more

Benjamin Rubin

Ben Rubin is the PI of Rubin Lab at UC Berkeley. As a postdoctoral fellow in Professor Jennifer Doudna's lab, Ben and colleagues created technologies that enable CRISPR-Cas editing of microbiomes. The Rubin lab continues to develop this platform while working with collaborators to apply microbial community editing tools to various microbiomes, such as those residing in human guts, cow rumens, and plant roots. Ben is also a co-founder of the non-profit Science Corps and, when not in the lab...Read more

Audrone Lapinaite

Dr. Audrone Lapinaite is an assistant professor at the Center for Translational Vision Research and the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of California, Irvine. Her research focuses on understanding the molecular mechanisms of natural and synthetic DNA and RNA modifying enzymes, and advancing precision genome editing tools to treat genetic ocular diseases.

She completed her undergraduate and master’s degrees in biochemistry at Vilnius University (Lithuania), where she was working with Prof. Saulius Klimasauskas and Dr. Grazvydas Lukinavicius on the engineering of...Read more

Catalysis and Reaction Engineering (CRE) Division Endowment

May 17, 2022
The Catalysis and Reaction Engineering (CRE) Division Endowment will create a long-term financial stability and viability to meet division objectives. Additionally, will support, in perpetuity, division awards (such as Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos Early Career Award; CRE Practice Award), student travel fellowships, Pioneers of CRE D&I Lectureship and division sponsorship of EDI initiatives.

Travis Armiger

Travis Armiger graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering in 2013. Travis then went on to receive his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 2018. He was a member of the Dahl research group where his work focused on cellular biomechanics and how physical forces and the physical environment impact the way that cells behave. After his time at Carnegie Mellon, Travis moved into his current role as a Senior Scientist at Merck in the Chemical Engineering Research and Development group. At Merck his work is focused on process...Read more

5th International Conference on Microbiome Engineering

December 9, 2022 to December 11, 2022
Sheraton Hotel, Boston, MA, USA
ICME 2022 connects experts from academia and industry to share the field’s most recent developments and the science and technology needed to enable microbiome engineering. This includes genetically engineered organisms that function within microbiomes, control of microbiomes through environmental...

Ashkan Tavakoli

Ashkan Tavakoli is Director of Manufacturing Science and Technology at Alpha Teknova. Ashkan obtained his BSc. in Chemical Engineering from Isfahan University of Technology and his MSc. in Chemical Engineering-Biotechnology from Sharif University of Technology, followed by a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Polytechnic Montreal. Dr. Tavakoli has over ten years of experience in manufacturing process design, process development, scale-up and scale-out analyses along with technology transfer within pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors for a wide variety of products including DNA/RNA...Read more

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