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Science in the Virtual Pub: What’s Next in Systems and Synthetic Biology for Sustainable Energy?

Dr. Buz Barstow, Associate Professor, Biological and Environmental EngineeringAtkinson Center for Sustainability Senior Faculty Fellow, and Carl Sagan Institute Fellow, Cornell University Synthetic biology has enormous potential for building sustainability and clean energy technologies. However, we’re unable to take advantage of much of this potential because our knowledge of much of the most interesting things that nature has to offer remain limited. I’ll start this talk by reviewing a few breakthroughs that my lab has made over the past few years in biomining rare earth elements for sustainable energy technologies, microbial electroactivity and upgrading photosynthesis, and new mechanisms for genetic engineering. Then, I’ll discuss what my lab intends to do next, including building a Microbe-Mineral Atlas to discover new mechanisms that will allow highly efficient mining of metals; development of hyper-engineer able microbes; and how to use them to build high-performance autotrophic microbes.