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José Avalos

Associate Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Bioengineering

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Research interests: Biotechnology: Use of synthetic biology and metabolic engineering to address important problems in sustainable energy, the environment, industry, and human health.

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Three storms formed in the Atlantic basin in 2017. Photo by NASA

Six research projects receive Sustainability of Our Planet funding

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From troublesome seaweed to sustainable feedstock

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Floating Sargassum in Puerto Rico (photo courtesy of Loretta Roberson of Marine Biological Laboratory).

Transforming troublesome seaweed into a feedstock of the future

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Princeton IP Accelerator funding awarded to support promising new technologies

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José Avalos (center) in the laboratory with graduate students Sarah Kwartler (left) and José Montaño-López (right). Photo by Adena Stevens

Transforming microbes into factories for the future

Montano Lopez standing with his multimedia research presentation display at the conference.
José Montaño López presented work from a collaborative team of Princeton and NYU Langone researchers. Using synthetic yeasts, they sped a directed evolutionary process from years to days and created a system that can produce advanced biofuels with great efficiency. Photo courtesy of Montaño López

Designing yeasts to make cleaner fuels earns grad student an innovation award at COP28

Affiliations

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Chemical and Biological Engineering

Advancing human health, energy, materials science, and industrial processes

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Omenn-Darling Bioengineering Institute

Building a vibrant community of faculty, students, postdocs, staff and partners; research focusing on cellular, hardware and computational bioengineering – all under one roof.