2025 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Systems Biology: Metabolism and Synthetic Biology for the Bio-Economy

This session covers systems biology approaches to quantify and engineer microbes, microbial consortia, and plants with a particular emphasis on the bio-economy and environmental applications.

Chair

Siu Hung Joshua Chan, Colorado State University

Co-Chair

Agnieszka Truszkowska, Oregon State University

Presentations

02:30 PM

(717a) Invited Talk: Bloom or Bust: Systems Biology Approach to Modeling Arctic Phytoplankton Resilience
Ranjan Srivastava, Joseph Zavorskas, Kristina Wagstrom, Penny Vlahos

03:06 PM

(717b) Genome-Scale Metabolic Modeling and Predictive Control Strategies for Optimal Biomass Growth of Chlorella Sp. on Fermentation Waste
Ajit Singathia, Debasis Sarkar

03:24 PM

(717c) Compartmentalized Whole Plant Genome-Scale Metabolic Reconstruction of Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) Informed with Constraints from Field Data
Patrick F. Suthers, Thomas H. Pendergast, Mitra Mazarei, Anne E. Harman-Ware, Ajaya K. Biswal, Bennett Addison, C. Neal Stewart, Katrien M. Devos, Costas D. Maranas

03:42 PM

(717d) Elucidating the Robustness of Bacillus Coagulans B-768 for Biomanufacturing: Insights from Phenotypic Profiling, Functional Genomics, and Proteome Reallocation
David Dooley, Seunghyun Ryu, Richard J. Giannone, Jackson Edwards, Bruce S. Dien, Patricia J. Slininger, Cong T. Trinh

04:00 PM

(717e) Simulating Cooperative Interactions in Microbial Communities from an Individualistic Perspective: The Cybernetic Modeling Approach
Hyun-Seob Song, Manokaran Veeramani, Kirsten S. Hofmockel

04:18 PM

(717f) Catalytically Aware and Mutation-Resolved Kinetics Prediction Enables Variational Modeling of Enzyme-Substrate Systems
Abraham Osinuga, Karuna Anna Sajeevan, Ratul Chowdhury, Rajib Saha

04:36 PM

(717g) Sequence Determinants of Cellular Resource Partitioning in Engineered Microbes
Nikhil U. Nair