ChEnected Guest
AIChE would like to thank its multiple guest authors for the ChEnected blog. Browse posts below that cover a variety of topics.
ChEnected contributions
ICOSSE 2011: Daniela Stebbins Recounts Her Travels to Haiti and the How to Improve Water Quality with the Use of Cactus Mucilage
ICOSSE 2011: Yosef Manik of the University of Maine Assesses the Sustainability of Bio-product Supply Chains
Yosef Manik is a Fulbright Ph.D. student from Indonesia whose primary area of study is forest resources. He assisted Anthony Halog in researching frameworks and models for sustainability assessment of bio-product supply chains. He presented his research to ChEnected at the Second International Congress on Sustainability Science and Engineering.
Charlene Wall-Warren’s First Job
There’s no such thing as starting at the top for most people. Learn how some of today’s prominent chemical engineers got their start in the working world in this weekly series of personal profiles. This week, we feature AIChE board member Charlene Wall-Warren.
ICOSSE 2011: Columbia University’s Huiming Yin Discusses His Research About the Design Efficiency of Solar Roofing Panels
ICOSSE 2011: Bruce Douglas Discusses the Integration of Sustainable Design in Campus Architecture
ICOSSE 2011: Gwendolyn Woods of the University of Arizona Discusses Water Resource Management and Optimization
2011 ICBE: Stephen Turner on SMRT Technology
Stephen Turner from Pacific Biosciences spoke as an invited speaker in the Biomolecular Probes as Diagnostic and Therapeutic Reagents Session. His company has developed single-molecule, real-time (SMRT) technology to visually watch DNA polymerase enzyme activity during replication.
John Tao’s First Job
There’s no such thing as starting at the top for most people. Learn how some of today’s prominent chemical engineers got their start in the working world in this weekly series of personal profiles. This week, we feature John Tao, VP of Open Innovation at Weyerhaeuser and 2010 AIChE board member.
ICOSSE 2011: Magdy Abdelrahman and the Importance of Integrating Infrastructure Sustainability into Civil Engineering Programs
2011 ICBE: Metabolic Modeling [On Location]
Costas Maranas from Pennsylvania State University and Herbert Sauro from the University of Washington each spoke about their research efforts to simplify and standardize genomic models. Metabolic models are continually being developed to describe natural biotransformations by different groups around the world, which creates a great need for a reconciled database.
2011 ICBE: Dr. Lee Hood Presents His P4 Model of Medicine [On Location]
Dr. Lee Hood explained his P4 model of informational wellness science, which has the potential to completely revolutionize health care and medicine in the next few years. Instead of continuing with the current, expensive and failing reactive medicine, the Institute for Systems Biology is paving the way to developing a system based on capturing biological information and integrating the knowledge into diagnostic tools. P4 medicine is based on predictive, personalized, preventive, and participatory science.
2011 ICBE: Session 2—Synthetic Biology [On Location]
The second session of ICBE 2011 focused on how recent advances in synthetic biology have expanded the field of biology, and the potential of the research to engineer new organisms. The first speaker, Michael Elowitz from the California Institute of Technology, set up the session by explaining how rewiring excitable gene circuits can allow control over differentiation.
2011 ICBE: Session 1—Evolutionary Engineering of Proteins [On Location]
The first session of ICBE continued with the theme of last night’s keynote speaker, focusing on evolutionary engineering, this time with proteins. The session started with a presentation from Georges Belfort of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he spoke on his research’s effort to learn more about protein fibrils which induce amyloid diseases.
2011 ICBE Keynote by Frances Arnold—Evolutionary Design [On Location]
The 2011 ICBE—International Conference on Biomolecular Engineering—started with a fantastic keynote speaker. Frances Arnold, from the California Institute of Technology, gave a great look into her career focusing on evolutionary design of proteins and biological systems, and her research groups’ success with cytochrome P450 enzymes.
