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099: Microbial engineering for biofuels and beyond with Wayne Curtis
099: Microbial engineering for biofuels and beyond with Wayne Curtis
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Length:
81 minutes
Released:
Jan 11, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
How does an engineer approach microbial genetics? cworks with microbes of all kinds to optimize metabolic and agricultural systems. Here he discusses his work with Rhodobacter to make biofuels and for membrane protein expression, with Agrobacterium and plant pathogenic viruses to make drought-resistant plants, and with Clostridium and yeast cocultures for lignocellulose digestion. Take the listener survey at asm.org/mtmpoll Full shownotes at asm.org/mtm Links for this Episode: Wayne Curtis Lab site at Penn State University PLoS One: Molecular Cloning, Overexpression, and Characerization of a Novel Water Channel protein from Rhodobacter sphaeroides Protein Expression and Purification: Advancing Rhodobacter sphaeroides as a Platform for Expression of Functional Membrane Proteins Biotechnology for Biofuels: Consortia-Mediated Bioprocessing of Cellulose to Ethanol with a symbiotic Clostridium phytofermentans/Yeast Co-Culture HOM Tidbit: Genentech “Cloning Insulin” blog HOM Tidbit: Genentech press release announcing insulin cloning
Released:
Jan 11, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
MTS1 Ralph Tanner - The Future of Biofuels: Ralph Tanner, a professor of microbiology at the University of Oklahoma, focuses his research on anaerobes in the environment and putting those bacteria to use in industry. He develops useful microbial catalysts for biofuel production from sustainable cro by Meet the Microbiologist