Know someone interested in a PhD in Sustainable Protein?
I’m delighted to be Industry Supervisor of a PhD with the wonderful Sonja Billerbeck at the Bezos Centre for Sustainable Protein - Imperial.
It’s fully funded for UK-home students, but anyone can apply.
We’ve been working together on a CARMA - Cellular Agriculture Manufacturing Hub pump-priming project to develop the Aseptic electroPioreactor. This PhD will take it to the next level.
Air-driven food protein production:
This interdisciplinary PhD will combine engineering biology, bacterial physiology, and bioprocess engineering to develop Xanthobacter species into programmable cell factories for recombinant food protein production, while simultaneously creating accessible laboratory-scale gas fermentation systems for autotrophic cultivation under production-relevant conditions. The project will focus on developing advanced genetic tools, including inducible promoters and multiplexed CRISPR systems, alongside validating miniaturised gas fermentation platforms suitable for laboratory research and scale translation. The research will explore ways to enhance the yield of recombinant food protein production, while contributing open-access hardware and protocols that reduce barriers to entry for gas precision fermentation research and accelerate the development of air-driven biomanufacturing systems.
Deadline: 11pm Sunday 24 May. The successful candidate starts in October.
Please apply here: https://tally.so/r/rjGBqR or ask me if you have any questions.