Kevin Roelofs

Kevin Roelofs is a biotech entrepreneur, focusing on the intersection of biotech and climate change. Trained as a molecular microbiologist at UMD and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Kevin has spent over a decade developing live microbial products, with experience in process development and manufacturing. In 2023, Kevin pivoted to climate biotech and co-founded Ample Agriculture to help reduce methane emissions from cows.

Ample Agriculture
Tuesday
May 06
Lunch & Learn - Ordering Off-Menu: Microbes for the New Bioeconomy (ends at 1:00)
12:15 PM

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1:00 PM

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.

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