Iowa State CRCD in Biological Engineering

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Our interests fall in the general area of biochemical engineering. Most of our work has dealt with separation including protein precipitation and crystallization, membrane processing, microfiltration, protein extraction, chromatography, and recovery of organic acids.

Our research interests are in the areas of assessment, evaluation, and research methods.

Our research program is focused on designing polymers with tailored micro/nanostructures, both at the surface as well as in the bulk, with relevance to technological and bioengineering applications.

Our research is targeted towards obtaining a fundamental understanding of macromolecular surfaces and interfaces via nanoscale manipulation to precisely control molecular architecture and functionality in these systems.

Peter Reilly works in biochemical engineering, and more specifically in mutating hydrolases to make them more active, selective, and thermostable, in determining structures and evolutionary patterns of primitive hydrolases, in determining optimal sugar structures by computational molecular mechanics, in computationally docking oligosaccharides into hydrolase active sites, and in using liquid and gas chromatography and mass spectroscopy to identify and quantitate components of agricultural and food processing residues.

Research Interests: Biochemical engineering, metabolic engineering of plant secondary metabolites, in vivo NMR for metabolic evaluation, phytoremediation.