Research
CEB has a well-established four part research overall agenda comprising interdisciplinary research including: (1) developing organisms for biotechnical applications, (2) developing bioanalytical and molecular methods for application in complex environmental systems, (3) bioreactor systems development and analysis, and (4) environmental system dynamics and control. This agenda is highly integrated and infuses modern molecular biological analysis across a spectrum of science and engineering research projects dealing with fundamentally complex environmental problems. Historically this agenda was heavily weighted toward an outlet for bioremediation research, but has deliberately evolved into a more comprehensive program embracing the biotechnical contributions to problems of human-environment interaction.
Currently, the CEB is composed of >50 faculty, research scientists, technicians and graduate and undergraduate students across 10 departments. Specific research program areas include:
- BioMicroElectronics and NanoBioTechnology
- BioEnvironmental Systems
- BioReporter Development and BioImaging
- Environmental Genomics and Gene Expression
- BioEnergy Systems
- Education & Outreach