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Elizabeth Sattely
Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
BioPlants 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.
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Tim Schnabel
Technical/Paraprofessional, Program-Sattely, E.
BioMy biggest passion is solving problems. Biotechnology is fascinating and amazingly complex; it has the power to change the world in areas such as sustainable energy, food, and medicine. Between all of these, I do not mind the exact subject so much as the process of creatively finding a solution. I look to explore and expand said creativity and problem solving skills throughout my graduate study at Stanford.
I was born in Germany and attended international schools in both Hannover, Germany, and London, England. After graduating with an IB Diploma I came to Stanford for undergraduate study in Chemical Engineering and Economics. Through an honors thesis project that covered all four years in the James R. Swartz Laboratory, I developed further depth and focus on biotechnology. I am currently enrolled as a Bioengineering student at Stanford and have worked on projects ranging from metabolic engineering of novel anti-cancer drugs to photosynthetic carbon concentration optimization to light-controlled cell division to novel HIV vaccines.
I joined the Elizabeth Sattely lab for my thesis work, and am currently engineering plant-microbe interactions. Bacteria and fungi can confer a number of beneficial properties to crops, such as improved drought tolerance and nitrogen fixation. Understanding and then engineering these mechanisms is a complex, new, and extremely hot field of research. My current project focuses on engineering the cereal-crop-symbiotic bacterium Azospirillum brasilense to excrete ammonia at high rates and over prolonged time frames. If we are successful, then this can transform sustainable agriculture for the future. -
Joel Schneider
Ph.D. Student in Chemical Engineering, admitted Autumn 2015
BioJoel is interested in nanotechnology research and the chemical tools and understanding we can use to leverage it, as well as education and the role of active learning engagement strategies. His research in the Bent group is focused on understanding and controlling surface chemistry in atomic layer deposition (ALD) processes and applying this knowledge to understand chemical problems in nano-electronics. Much of his research focuses on developing an atomic understanding of these systems using of a variety of sensitive reaction monitoring equipment.
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Eric S.G. Shaqfeh
Lester Levi Carter Professor and Professor of Mechanical Engineering
On Leave from 10/01/2021 To 12/31/2021Current Research and Scholarly InterestsI have over 25 years experience in theoretical and computational research related to complex fluids following my PhD in 1986. This includes work in suspension mechanics of rigid partlcles (rods), solution mechanics of polymers and most recently suspensions of vesicles, capsules and mixtures of these with rigid particles. My research group is internationally known for pioneering work in all these areas.
