Co-Applicants & Collaborators
Professor | Research & Expertise | Research Projects |
|---|---|---|
| Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto | ||
| Emma Master | The implementation of enzymology, protein engineering, proteomics, applied functional genomics, and lignocellulose chemistry for the production of high-value products from renewable plant resources. | |
| Elizabeth Edwards | Utilizing the latest genomics and metagenomics tools to understand and exploit microbial communities that detoxify common pollutants, convert wastes into useful products, and to minimize solid waste streams. | |
| Krishna Mahadevan | Engineering microbial systems for industrial and medical applications by employing bioinformatics, modeling of metabolic and regulatory networks, systems biology, metabolic engineering, and synthetic biology. | |
| Grant Allen | Environmental bioprocess engineering for the treatment of industrial waste and wastewater streams, air quality, and the use of micro algae for the conversion of waste into value-added products. | |
| Brad Saville | Conversion of biomass for production of biofuels and bioproducts, and the economic and life cycle analysis of biofuels and bioproducts. | |
| Alexander Yakunin | Engineering microbial systems for industrial and medical applications by employing bioinformatics, modeling of metabolic and regulatory networks, systems biology, and metabolic engineering. | |
| Doug Reeve | Process and enviornmental improvement in the pulp and paper industry, surface science of wood pulp fibres and paper, and the leadership education for engineering students. | |
| Civil and Mineral Engineering, University of Toronto | ||
| Heather MacLean | Systems analysis for sustainable engineering including the development and application of life cycle assessment and techno-economic methods for the evaluation of technical and externality impacts of conventional and alternative energy and transportation systems. | |
| Elodie Passeport | Characterizing the fate and removal of organic and inorganic contaminants in natural and engineered aquatic environments and development of isotope techniques to quantify trace levels of environmental contaminates. | |
| Donnelly Centre for Cellular & Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto | ||
| Hannes Röst | Understanding biology on a personalized level and using next-generation mass spectrometry to analyze proteomic and metabolomic data in high-throughput. | |
| Faculty of Law, University of Toronto | ||
| Max Morgan | Development of open science legal structures, policy, and translational initiatives. | |
| The Hatchery, University of Toronto | ||
| Joseph Orozco | Student lead entrepreneurship and commercilizaiton | |
| Troost Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering, University of Toronto | ||
| Annie Simpson | Adult education and counselling psychology. | |
| The Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC) | ||
| Aled Edwards | Developing open access research tools (chemical inhibitors, protein structures and recombinant antibodies). Showing up for airline flights at the very last minute. | |
| Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, University of Calgary | ||
| Alexei Savchenko | Enzyme production and characterization facilitating enzyme discovery and synthetic biology, including: bacterial pathogenic factors; antimicrobial resistance enzymes; carbohydrate-active enzymes; biocatalysts. Characterization of protein function based on combination of structural, biochemical and in vivo methodologies. | |
| Microbiology and Immunology, University of British Columbia | ||
| Steven Hallam | Microbial ecology, biological engineering, and bioinformatics with specific emphasis on the creation of functional screens and computational tools that reveal hidden metabolic powers of uncultivated microbial communities. | |
| Start-up Co-founders | ||
| Pratish Gawand | Synthetic biology, metabolic engineering, industrial bioprocess development, and biotechnology commercialization. | |
| Aditya Pandit | Synthetic biology, metabolic engineering, industrial bioprocess development, and biotechnology commercialization. |
