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Elizabeth Sattely
Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
Plants have an extraordinary capacity to harvest atmospheric CO2 and sunlight for the production of energy-rich biopolymers, clinically used drugs, and other biologically active small molecules. The metabolic pathways that produce these compounds are key to developing sustainable biofuel feedstocks, protecting crops from pathogens, and discovering new natural-product based therapeutics for human disease. These applications motivate us to find new ways to elucidate and engineer plant metabolism. We use a multidisciplinary approach combining chemistry, enzymology, genetics, and metabolomics to tackle problems that include new methods for delignification of lignocellulosic biomass and the engineering of plant antibiotic biosynthesis.
TomKat Supported Projects
Grants:
Aquaporin-Copolymer Membranes for High-Throughput, Selective Water Purification
Education
PhD, Boston College (2007)
Contact
(650) 724-5928
Mail Code
4300