Congrats to May 2021 Grads!

Today, we celebrated our May 2021 grads and our first post-COVID-vaccination luncheon together! Diana Calvo Martinez graduated with her PhD in Environmental Engineering. Not present, but in our thoughts, were our other graduates, including Hannah Molitor, Caitlyn Hall and Daniella Saetta, who also received PhDs in Environmental Engineering, as well as Kimberly Martin who received… Continue reading Congrats to May 2021 Grads!

Fusion 2021 Retreat Winners

A big congratulations to Ethan Howley and Aide Robles for participating and winning in the Fusion 2021 Retreat. Ethan won the Einstein award for best use of physical principles and Aide was one of the winners for the Wheel of Science. You can check out the recording and some photos of this event that happened last… Continue reading Fusion 2021 Retreat Winners

Biodesign features Delgado Lab’s efforts to transform waste into wealth

In a 2/17/21 Biodesign news article, Waste into wealth: harvesting useful products from microbial growth, Richard Harth describes the Delgado Lab’s research projects focused on using microbial chain elongation to process waste streams, including food waste and fuels, by extracting useful products from organic waste.  

KE provides support for ASU researchers

During our 11/18/20 Whole Center Meeting, Philip Tarrant, Research Data Management Officer and Senior Sustainability Scientist for Knowledge Enterprise, presented about the data management options available to us throughout ASU and helped us start to think through how they might apply to our work.  He included topics such as research computing, electronic lab notebooks, ORCID,… Continue reading KE provides support for ASU researchers

“Microbial remedies target chemical threats in the environment”

Anca Delgado, Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown, and Srivatsan Mohana Rangan were all featured in a current issue of the journal Environmental Science and Technology. Their study revealed novel ways to remove very toxic chemicals from our environment. You can check out the description of this study on the ASU Biodesign Institute site or also the full text… Continue reading “Microbial remedies target chemical threats in the environment”

Several positions are available in our Centers!

The Biodesign Swette Center for Environmental Biotechnology and spin-off Center for Health through Microbiomes are hiring for several positions. Please share this information. SP2319 HTM Postdoc Arizona State University’s Biodesign Center for Health through Microbiomes, led by Dr. Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown (https://biodesign.asu.edu/Research/Centers/Health-Through-Microbiomes and http://rosylab.org/) invite applications for a Postdoctoral Research Scholar in the area of microbial ecology… Continue reading Several positions are available in our Centers!

“Cloth masks are a worthy line of defense to mitigate COVID-19 pandemic”

Sarah Arrowsmith was featured in an article published in the ASU Biodesign Institute latest news segment. She talks about her experience this past month with making her own cloth masks to donate to a medical facility! Sarah even got so good at it, she made more masks than expected, and had leftovers for a few… Continue reading “Cloth masks are a worthy line of defense to mitigate COVID-19 pandemic”