See below, EVEN Professor Sherri Cook new publications:
1. Leow, S.; Shoener, B.D.; Li, Y.; Debellis, J.L.; Markham, J.; Davis, R.; Laurens, L.M.L.; Pienkos, P.T.; Cook, S.M.; Strathmann, T.J.; Guest, J.S. A Unified Modeling Framework to Advance Biofuel Production from Microalgae. Environmental Science & Technology (2018), 52 (22), 13591–13599. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.8b03663
This collaborative work demonstrates a clear need to leverage integrated modeling platforms to advance microalgae biofuel systems. A dynamic biological cultivation model was integrated with thermo-chemical/biological unit process models for downstream biorefineries to increase modeling fidelity, to provide mechanistic links among unit operations, and to quantify minimum product selling prices of biofuels via techno-economic analysis.
2. Liang, L.; Heveran, C.; Liu, R.; Gill, R.; Nagarajan, A.; Cameron, J.; Hubler, M.; Srubar, W.V.; Cook, S.M. Rational Control of Calcite Precipitation by Engineered Escherichia coli. ACS Synthetic Biology (2018), 7 (11), 2497–2506. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acssynbio.8b00194
This collaborative work is integrating synthetic biology, environmental microbiology, and material science. This paper shows the potential to generate living materials; specifically, that microorganisms can be embedded in inert material and can produce biogenic byproducts that help to create more versatile materials and infrastructure that have a living, biological component.
