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Michael Ladisch, LORRE Director, takes on new responsibilities. Dr. Ladisch, while continuing as Director of LORRE, will also assume the position of Chief Technology Officer, at Mascoma Corporation, until November 2009. Mascoma is developing innovative and cost effective advances in biotechnology and engineering to unlock and harness the potential of low carbon, renewable energy and to move beyond traditional approaches of ethanol production.

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Nathan Mosier and Michael Ladisch have recently completed a new textbook:

Modern Biotechnology: Connecting Innovations in Microbiology and Biochemistry to Engineering Fundamentals

Hardback ISBN 978-0-470-11485-8

Available at: Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Past Spotlights and LORRE News.....

 

LORRE

Integrative Center for Biotechnology and Engineering

The Laboratory of Renewable Resources Engineering, LORRE, was established in 1978 to carry out research on transforming renewable resources to liquid fuels. The role of the Laboratory in multidisciplinary research evolved over its 31-year history from biofuels research to its current function as an Integrative Center for Biotechnology and Engineering which carries out multi-disciplinary research in bioenergy, bioprocessing, bioproducts , bionanotechnology, and biorecovery. LORRE has capabilities ranging from fundamental studies on the molecular genetics of yeast and bacteria to bioreaction and bioprocess engineering, and biotechnology that uses organisms, tissues, cells, or their molecular components to:

  1. act on living things,
  2. intervene in the workings of cells, including their genetic material,
  3. provide templates for advanced non-living systems that emulate specific biological functions, and
  4. manufacture bioproducts.

Definition from National Research Council report,
"Opportunities in Biotechnology for Future Army Applications," 2001

 

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