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CLE AIChE September 2023 Newsletter: Oktoberfest Social Event

September 11, 2023
Gemütlichkeit! Join the fun at the Oktoberfest here in Parma, Ohio on Friday September 8th 2023. Observe the colorful heritage, culture, music, and dances of the German people. Our own unique version of this legendary event offers something for the whole family, and for both the young and the young-at-heart. Oktoberfest actually began as a royal wedding in Munich, Germany on October 12, 1810.

University of Houston’s Mike Harold Is AIChE’s R. H. Wilhelm Award Recipient 

September 11, 2023
September 12, 2023

Harold is being recognized for the synthesis, analysis, and development of novel multifunctional reactors and catalysts for reduced emissions, intensified and safer operation, and higher desired product selectivity.

Mike Speer

Mike is the Director of Manufacturing at Oobli, a business at the forefront of the protein sweetener revolution.  At Oobli, Mike focuses on the fermentation and commercial manufacturing of sweet proteins, and also on the commercial production of sweetened products like chocolate and beverages.  Prior to his position at Oobli, Mike worked for Impossible Foods manufacturing Leghemoglobin, for BASF fermenting industrial enzymes, and for Cargill manufacturing organic acids.  He has a BS degree from the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering at UC Davis, and a PhD...Read more

Derek Wong



Derek received his B.S. in Bioengineering from the University of California, San Diego. Currently, he is an NSF Graduate Research Fellow in the Jewett Lab where he develops cell-free platforms for understanding and engineering proteins involved in natural product biosynthesis and conjugate vaccine production.

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CIB 2023 Day 1 Featured Keynote Session featuring Doug Clark, UC Berkeley

We are delighted to announce that Douglas Clark, Dean of College of Chemistry at UC Berkeley will be delivering the opening keynote address at this year's Commercializing Industrial Biotechnology conference on "From Baffles to Biofuels and Beyond: The Evolution of Biochemical Engineering at

AIChE SLS Exhibition at Gastech 2023

AIChE SLS Exhibition Booth at Gastech 2023

Paul Blainey

Dr. Blainey trained in mathematics, chemistry, biophysics, microfluidics, and genomics before joining the Broad Institute and the Department of Biological Engineering at MIT in 2012. Dr. Blainey’s laboratory develops and integrates microfluidic, molecular, imaging, and computational tools to address new challenges in single-cell analysis, genomic screening, and therapeutics development.Read more

Jung-Un Park

Jung-Un Park is a postdoctoral research associate in the laboratory of Dr. Elizabeth Kellogg at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. He obtained his bachelor’s degree at Seoul National University in South Korea. During his doctoral study in the Kellogg lab at Cornell University, he focused on investigating the molecular mechanisms of DNA-integration by CRISPR-associated transposons. Leveraging this structural understanding, he is now engaged in protein engineering to improve the system’s capability as a genome editing tool.Read more

2021 Robert E. Wilson Award

Tracy Rudisill

Tracy Rudisill is an Advisory Engineer in the Nuclear Materials Management Directorate at the Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) where he has worked since coming to the laboratory in March 1984. In this position, Tracy has performed R&D activities associated with most transuranic element processing activities at the Savannah River Site (SRS). He has made exceptional contributions to nuclear chemical process operations, the nuclear fuel cycle, and to national security. He possesses a deep and broad knowledge of actinide separations as applied to...Read more

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