Event Date
MIC (Microbiology Course) 291: Selected Topics in Microbiology
Work-in-Progress Seminars
Speaker: Tom Santangelo, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Colorado State University
Dr. Santangelo presents: “Archaeal Platforms for Bio-Renewables”
Abstract: Most production microbes (e.g. yeasts and bacteria) enjoy success in the bio-renewable economy due to genetic systems that compensate for their limited metabolisms. These platforms, however, remain feedstock restricted, suffer from product toxicity constraints, have real contamination concerns, and necessitate feedstock pretreatments that increase costs and introduce toxic byproducts. Alternative systems must be developed in parallel with improvements to existing platforms, and the Santangelo lab has developed the hyperthermophilic archaea as an alternative bio-renewable platform. Dr. Tom Santangelo will discuss both foundational and applied aspect of archaeal biology with respect to the renewable marketplace.
Host: Arthur Charles-Orszag