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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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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

Jose Avalos, Chris Gonzalez, Tess Kichuk in wearing lab coats looking at Petri dish in lab
José Avalos (left) and members of his research team Chris Gonzalez and Tess Kichuk. Photo by Sameer Khan/Fotobuddy

New bioengineering Ph.D. program harnesses ‘uniquely collaborative’ community

Group of researchers gathered around computer screen in a lab.
José Avalos (right) and his research team engineer microbes in his lab to address global challenges in renewable energy and sustainable manufacturing. Photo by Sameer A. Khan/Fotobuddy

At new institute, quest for better lives starts with curiosity

Affiliations

Professor and student work together in lab setting.

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.