Deepti Tanjore
Deepti Tanjore is the Director of the ABPDU at Berkeley Lab that helps companies scale from milliliters to 100's of liters. She interfaces with several scientists from industry, academia, and start-ups that are each individually trying to resolve scale-up challenges for their synthetic biology–based technologies. Deepti's interests lie in articulating industry-wide issues and developing technologies that no single company is incentivized to pursue. Her research at ABPDU focuses on modeling the impact of bioprocess conditions on microbial heterogeneity and developing in-line analytical tools for self-driving bioreactors. Deepti has a PhD in Biological Engineering at Pennsylvania State University, and an MBA from Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Lunch & Learn - Ordering Off-Menu: Microbes for the New Bioeconomy (ends at 1:00)
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From acid-loving metal munchers to photosynthetic cyanobacteria and microbiome consortia, non-model microbes are already quietly tackling problems that conventional hosts can’t touch. Join a fast-paced lunch-and-learn where leaders in strain development, fermentation, and microbial applications discuss how we can best build a flourishing bioeconomy.We will map the opportunity landscape across food, fuels, therapeutics, agriculture, biomining and planetary terraforming, and discuss practical hurdles like genetic tractability, scale-up, and regulatory paths. Attendees will leave with a field guide to promising clades, toolkits, and collaboration models that can turn today’s “wild types” into tomorrow’s workhorses.
Maxing Bioprocesses At Scale By Targeting Heterogeneity – An Industry Perspective
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Controlling cell-to-cell variations in fermentation tanks from lab-scale to large-commercial scale poses challenges but can create immense value, unleashing the full potential of the process. Recent advances in understanding and measuring fermentation heterogeneity have created a new focus on cell heterogeneity, and SynBio technologies to intelligently promote the best cell variants. Join us when leading industry experts discuss how mitigating cell-to-cell variation helps them unlock value in their fermentations and hear them share recent experience.
