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Reach out to Crysten at cblaby@lbl.gov with your project to discuss how the Molecular Foundry and Joint Genome Institute can support your research!!
Reach out to Crysten at cblaby@lbl.gov with your project to discuss how the Molecular Foundry and Joint Genome Institute can support your research!!
Bio(nano)materials are molecular materials composed partially or completely of biological molecules. Microbes can be used as components of engineered materials (such as Bio-cement or self-healing hydrogels), or microbes can serve as factories and scaffolds for materials (such as bioplastics or silica bio-shells). In the Biological Nanostructures Facility at the Molecular Foundry, we are using and developing nanoscience technologies to understand, predict, and design material biosynthesis.
Using top-down or bottom-up approaches, our biomaterials capability provides expertise and resources for
discovery of native biosynthetic pathways and protein function prediction
structure-to-function discovery of protein mechanism
encoding natural and redesigned biomaterials into the genomes of microbial chassis
building workflows for biomaterial characterization
We have experience working with prokaryotes and eukaryotes and specialize in leveraging photosynthetic microbes for CO2 sequestration for material biosynthesis.
Learn more about the Biological Nanostructures Facility:
Learn more about the Biological Nanostructures Facility:
Learn more about the Molecular Foundry user program and submit your proposal:
Learn more about the Molecular Foundry user program and submit your proposal:
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