Engineering Microboes to Produce Plastics and Biomolecule Production Lines! | Solutions Science with Dr. Elias Englund

The sun radiates an imense amount of energy onto the surface of the earth, scientists and engineers dream of using this energy to build materials and chemical products by engineering algae.<br/><br/>In this episode I spoke with Dr. Elias Englund about his work in the area of metabolic engineering to produce valuable products in microorganisms and we also touched on his recently published paper on poly ketide synthatses (PKS) which are a class of biomolecule that behave like a molecular factory line, producing important molecules such as antibiotics and other drugs.<br/><br/><br/>