Bio-Catalysis

New Frontiers Grant Program Successes for RASEI Fellows

Anonymous — Wed, 08 May 2024 20:48:10 +0000

New Frontiers Grant Program Successes for RASEI Fellows Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 05/08/2024 - 14:48

Daniel Morton

The CU Boulder New Frontiers Grant Program was launched in 2024. The program is designed to foster visionary groundbreaking, interdisciplinary research projects that have potential for high impact. This could include significant advances in knowledge, problem-solving or innovation that can build to new paradigms of understanding.

New Frontiers Grant Program

2024 Award Announcement

A central column of this program is to stimulate the development of new strengths at CU Boulder, driven by researchers thinking across disciplines and developing methods to work together to tackle complex and impactful research challenges.

Twenty-six teams submitted collaborative proposals were submitted to this program earlier this year and four projects were selected as winners of planning grants, two of which involved RASEI Fellows.

New Frontiers in Bio-Integrated Organic Computing & Low-Energy Innovative Carbon-based Manufacturing, or BIO-CLIC, led by RASEI Fellow Jeff Cameron and engaging a team across four CU Boulder departments and collaborators from NREL, will explore challenges in computational efficiency by investigating unconventional computing approaches that employ renewable sources and carbon fixation processes.

Polymers for a Sustainable Earth, or POSE, led by Wei Zhang from the Department of Chemistry and involving RASEI Fellows Dan Kaffine, Kat Knauer, Oana Luca, Seth Marder, Srinivas Parinandi, Mike Toney, and Terri Walters, brings together collaborators from six CU Boulder departments and NREL. POSE will foster a community to facilitate extramural research and funding at a scale to effectively address the issue of plastic pollution and new, sustainable methods to synthesize, reuse, and recycle polymers.

The four teams were chosen following 14 in-person pitches, where the teams outlined how their proposed work addresses important societal problems through adopting collaborative interdisciplinary approaches. The four teams will now use the next year to advance their proposals, build out the team and conduct initial investigations on how to take things forward. The teams will then compete for the single Launch Phase Grant of $200k, which will be awarded in June 2025.

Congratulations to the teams! We look forward to seeing your progress over the next year!

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Bacterial Disco Lights: Using light to control the movement and arrangement of cyanobacteria to form liquid crystalline active matter

Anonymous — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 06:00:00 +0000

Bacterial Disco Lights: Using light to control the movement and arrangement of cyanobacteria to form liquid crystalline active matter Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 04/02/2024 - 00:00

Daniel Morton

NATURE COMMUNICATIONS MATERIALS, 2024, 5, 37

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Photosynthetically-powered phototactic active nematic liquid crystal fluids and gels

Anonymous — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 06:00:00 +0000

Photosynthetically-powered phototactic active nematic liquid crystal fluids and gels Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 03/15/2024 - 00:00

NATURE COMMUNICATIONS MATERIALS, 2024, 5, 37

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Risk Assessment of Industrial Microbes Using a Terrestrial Mesocosm Platform

Anonymous — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 07:00:00 +0000

Risk Assessment of Industrial Microbes Using a Terrestrial Mesocosm Platform Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 12/11/2023 - 00:00

MICROBIAL ECOLOGY, 2024, 87, 12

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Deep mutational scanning reveals the molecular determinants of RNA polymerase-mediated adaptation and tradeoffs

Anonymous — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 06:00:00 +0000

Deep mutational scanning reveals the molecular determinants of RNA polymerase-mediated adaptation and tradeoffs Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 10/09/2023 - 00:00

NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 2023, 14, 6319

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Cryo-annealing of Photoreduced CdS Quantum Dot–Nitrogenase MoFe Protein Complexes Reveals the Kinetic Stability of the E4(2N2H) Intermediate

Anonymous — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 06:00:00 +0000

Cryo-annealing of Photoreduced CdS Quantum Dot–Nitrogenase MoFe Protein Complexes Reveals the Kinetic Stability of the E4(2N2H) Intermediate Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 09/20/2023 - 00:00

JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 2023, 145, 39, 21165-21169

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How to build a climate-friendly skyscraper: Start small. Petri-dish small

Anonymous — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 06:00:00 +0000

How to build a climate-friendly skyscraper: Start small. Petri-dish small Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 09/14/2023 - 00:00

Prometheus Materials, co-founded by RASEI Fellow Jeff Cameron, has a solution for replacing one of the biggest contributors of greenhouse gasses, financial backing from Microsoft and an aggressive plan to scale up quickly.

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Heterologous expression of formate dehydrogenase enables photoformatotrophy in the emerging model microalga, Picochlorum renovo

Anonymous — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 06:00:00 +0000

Heterologous expression of formate dehydrogenase enables photoformatotrophy in the emerging model microalga, Picochlorum renovo Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 08/29/2023 - 00:00

FRONTIERS IN BIOENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY, 2023, 295, 6570-6585

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Hydrogel-assisted self-healing of biomineralized living building materials

Anonymous — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 06:00:00 +0000

Hydrogel-assisted self-healing of biomineralized living building materials Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 07/25/2023 - 00:00

JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION, 2023, 418, 138178

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Asymmetric survival in single-cell lineages of cyanobacteria in response to photodamage

Anonymous — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 07:00:00 +0000

Asymmetric survival in single-cell lineages of cyanobacteria in response to photodamage Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 12/30/2022 - 00:00

Photosynthesis Research, 2023, 155, 289-297

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