APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Microbial community engineering to Improve agricultural yields Design probiotic applications in humans or livestock Engineer increased industrial fermentor yields ADVANTAGES: Simultaneously evaluates all possible interactions from a mixed consortia High throughput Accurate ABSTRACT: Adam Arkin and Nicholas Justice of … [Read more...] about Identifying Organism Interactions with High Throughput Enrichment Culturing 2016-132
Biotechnology
Dub-seq: Double Barcoded Shotgun Expression Library Sequencing 2015-160
APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Drug discovery and screening Functional genomics Synthetic biology Enzyme discovery ADVANTAGES: High throughput Scalable Less labor intensive and expensive than current approaches Enables gene function annotation ABSTRACT: Though current functional genomics technologies coupled with next generation sequencing have … [Read more...] about Dub-seq: Double Barcoded Shotgun Expression Library Sequencing 2015-160
A Universal Approach to Integrate and Express Pathways in a Broad Range of Bacteria 2016-024
APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Microbiome engineering for medicine, agriculture, biomanufacturing and renewable energy Pharmaceutical synthesis Commodity chemical and biofuel production Livestock research and development ADVANTAGES: Enables high-throughput, stable, accurate, efficient gene integration and expression of very large DNA constructs (e.g., … [Read more...] about A Universal Approach to Integrate and Express Pathways in a Broad Range of Bacteria 2016-024
Safe Preparation of Black Silicon Substrate for Nanostructure Initiator Mass Spectrometry (NIMS) 2015-122
APPLICATIONS: NIMS platform for analysis of biological molecules ADVANTAGES: More consistent, controlled NIMS chip production Does not require hydrofluoric acid Characteristics of the black silicon can be modified to alter NIMS sensitivity ABSTRACT: Trent Northen and other Berkeley Lab researchers have demonstrated a new technology for preparing black … [Read more...] about Safe Preparation of Black Silicon Substrate for Nanostructure Initiator Mass Spectrometry (NIMS) 2015-122
Synthetic Production of 2-Pyrrolidone EJIB-3307
APPLICATIONS: Sustainable production of 2-Pyrrolidone used as a building block for active pharmaceutical ingredients solvent found in water-based ink solvent for membrane filters polymer precursor ADVANTAGES: Lower cost production method compared to available technologies Requires less harsh reaction conditions More environmentally-friendly … [Read more...] about Synthetic Production of 2-Pyrrolidone EJIB-3307