People @ Colorado State University
Dr. Kenneth Reardon
Dr. Reardon's research expertise in enhanced biofuels production has lead him to become one of the foremost experts in biotechnology, particularly in algae and microorganism bioengineering and bioreactor design. In addition to directing the MAS BioEnergy program and lab, the Sustainable Bioenergy Development Center, and the Colorado Center for Biorefining and Biofuels' CSU site, Dr. Reardon is a faculty member and associate department head in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at CSU. He also holds joint appointments in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, and the Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences.
Email: Kenneth.Reardon@Colostate.edu
CV: http://www.engr.colostate.edu/~reardon
Barbara Gibson
Bioenergy Research Coordinator
Email: Barbara.Gibson@Colostate.edu
Affiliated Bioenergy Faculty:
Shawn Archibeque
Department: Animal Sciences
College: Agricultural Sciences
Phone: 970.491.6649
Email: shawn.archibeque@colostate.edu
Focus Area: Assessment
Research: Uses and effects of distillers grains and other biofuels byproducts on animal health and the environment.
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J Lucas Argueso
Department: Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences
College: Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
Phone: 970.491.3681
Email: lucas.argueso@colostate.edu
Focus Area: Biomass conversion
Research: Functional genomics of industrial biofuel yeast strains; development of advanced yeast strains for bioethanol production
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Cris Argueso
Department: Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management
College: Agriculture
Phone: 970.491.3054
Email: Cris.Argueso@colostate.edu
Focus Area: Plant Biotechnology
Research: Molecular mechanisms regulating plant growth and resistance to pathogens, development of advanced high biomass/high resistance crops
http://bspm.agsci.colostate.edu/cris-argueso/
Jill Baron
Department: Ecosystem Science and Sustainability
College: Warner College of Natural Resources
Phone: 970.491.1968
Email: Jill.Baron@ColoState.edu
Focus Area: Assessment
Research: Carbon and nitrogen cycling in the environment
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Pat Bedinger
Department: Biology
College: Natural Sciences
Phone: 970.491.2879
Email: bedinger@colostate.edu
Focus Area: Plant biotechnology
Research: Protein engineering
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Michele Betsill
Department: Political Science
College: Liberal Arts
Phone: 970.491.5270
Email: m.betsill@colostate.edu
Focus Area: Assessment
Research: Energy and environmental policy
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Craig Bond
Department: Agricultural and Resource Economics
College: Agricultural Sciences
Phone: 970.491.6951
Email: Craig.Bond@colostate.edu
Focus Area: Assessment
Research: Agricultural economics, environmental economics, and natural resource economics, especially relating to the interactions among the three fields
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Jennifer Bond
Department: Agricultural and Resource Economics
College: Agricultural Sciences
Phone: 970.491.3299
Email: Jennifer.Bond@colostate.edu
Focus Area: Assessment
Research: Analysis of real-world data to determine ways that individual producers and groups can add value to their market offerings and organizations
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Thomas Borch
Department: Soil and Crop Sciences
College: Agricultural Sciences
Phone: 970.491.6235
Email: Thomas.Borch@colostate.edu
Focus Area: Assessment
Research: Fate and transport of biofuels in soil and water
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Dan Bush
Department: Biology
College: Natural Sciences
Phone: 970.491.0212
Email: dbush@lamar.colostate.edu
Focus Area: Plant Biotechnology
Research: sugar and amino acid allocation in plants; increasing biomass production in plants, particularly grass species
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Pat Byrne
Department: Soil and Crop Sciences
College: Agricultural Sciences
Phone: 970.491.6985
Email: patrick.byrne@colostate.edu
Focus Area: Crop sciences
Research: Quantitative and molecular genetics for crop improvement
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Eugene Chen
Department: Chemistry
College: Natural Sciences
Phone: 970.491.5609
Email: Eugene.chen@colostate.edu
Focus Area: Biomass conversion
Research: chemical catalysis for biomass conversion into biofuels and feedstock chemicals and for bioplastic production from renewable resources
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Francesca Cotrufo
Department: Soil and Crop Sciences
College: Agricultural Sciences
Phone: 970.491.6056
Email: Francesca.cotrufo@colostate.edu
Focus Area: Assessment
Research: Biochar, C sequestration and residues decomposition
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David Dandy
Department: Chemical and Biological Engineering
College: Engineering
Phone: 970.491.7437
Email: david.dandy@colostate.edu
Focus Area: Product engineering/combustion
Research: Combustion modeling
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Susan De Long
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
College: Engineering
Phone: 970.491.6606
Email: susan.de_long@colostate.edu
Focus Area: Conversion
Research: Molecular biology tools, Bioenergy generation, Biological water and wastewater treatment, Bioremediation, Anaerobic digestion, Graywater treatment
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Christopher Goemans
Department: Agriculture and Resource Economics
College: Agricultural Sciences
Phone: 970-491-7261
Email: christopher.goemans@colostate.edu
Focus Area: Water Resource Economics
Research: Water reallocation; municipal water use; agricultural water use, and water conservation.
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Gregory Graff
Department: Agriculture and Resource Economics
College: Agricultural Sciences
Phone: 970-491-4028
Email: gregory.graff@colostate.edu
Focus Area: Economic Assessment
Research: Intellectual property and genetics; patent landscape analysis of industry sectors; technology transfer by universities; regulatory environment and introduction of new technologies
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Chuck Henry
Department: Chemistry
College: Natural Sciences
Phone: 970.491.1872
Email: chuck.henry@colostate.edu
Focus Area: Biomass conversion
Research: Lipid assessment methods
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Dana Hoag
Department: Agriculture and Resource Economics
College: Agricultural Sciences
Phone: 970.491.5549
Email: dhoag@colostate.edu
Focus Area: Economics assessment
Research: Economics of agricultural production systems, related natural resources and policy, including soil, water, energy, and ecosytem services
http://dare.colostate.edu/dhoag/index.aspx
Courtney Jahn
Department: Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management
College: Agricultural Sciences
Phone: 970.491.6741
Webpage:http://www.colostate.edu/Dept/bspm/people/faculty%20indiv/Jahn.html
Email: Courtney.Jahn@colostate.edu
Focus Area: Plant biotechnology
Research: Biomass feedstock improvement
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Jerry Johnson
Department: Soil and Crop Sciences
College: Agricultural Sciences
Phone: 970.491.1450
Email: jerry.johnson@colostate.edu
Focus Area: Crop sciences
Research: Alternative crops and cropping systems
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Amber Krummel
Department: Chemistry
College: Natural Sciences
Phone: 970.491.3694
Email: Amber.Krummel@colostate.edu
Focus Area: Conversion, Production
Research: Charge transport in polyelectrolyte membranes
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Nora Lapitan
Department: Soil and Crop Sciences
College: Agricultural Sciences
Phone: 970.491.1921
Email: Nora.Lapitan@colostate.edu
Focus Area: Plant biotechnology
Research: Plant breeding
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Jan Leach
Department: Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management
College: Agricultural Sciences
Phone: 970.491.2924
Email: jan.leach@colostate.edu
Focus Area: Plant Biotechnology
Research: Increasing biomass production in plants, particularly grass species
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Anthony Marchese
Department: Mechanical Engineering
College: Engineering
Phone: 970.491.2328
Email: anthony.marchese@colostate.edu
Focus Area: Product engineering/combustion
Research: Experimental and modeling studies of biofuels combustion
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John McKay
Department: Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management
College: Agricultural Sciences
Phone: 970.491.5730
Email: jkmckay@colostate.edu
Focus Area: Plant biotechnology
Research: Understanding of the genetic basis of traits involved in adaptation to particular stresses (e.g., drought) for both applied (crop breeding, conservation, invasive species) and theoretical questions in ecology and evolution.
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June Medford
Department: Biology
College: Natural Sciences
Phone: 970-491-7865
Email: june.medford@colostate.edu
Focus Area: Plant biotechnology
Research: Plant molecular biology and signal transduction; genetic engineering of synthetic gene systems in plants, and specifically engineering in planta a synthetic ability to control hydrolases---the ability to break the cell wall down to useful components-- using synthetic gene circuit design and plant targeting mechanisms.
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Dennis Ojima
Department: Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory
College: Natural Resources
Phone: 491-1976
Email: Dennis.Ojima@ColoState.EDU
Focus Area: Assessment
Research: Ecosystem modeling; environmental policy
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Daniel Olsen
Department: Mechanical Engineering
College: Engineering
Phone: 491-3580
Email: daniel.olsen@colostate.edu
Focus Area: Product engineering/combustion
Research: Bio-gas in industrial gas engines, exhaust aftertreatment
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William J Parton
Department: Natrual Resource Ecology Lab
College: Natural Resources
Phone: 491-1987
Email: William.Parton@ColoState.EDU
Focus Area: Assessment
Research: Ecosystem modeling of greenhouse gas budgets for agricultural systems
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Keith Paustian
Department: Soils and Crops Sciences
College: Agricultural Sciences
Phone: 970.491.1547
Email: keithp@nrel.colostate.edu
Focus Area: Assessment
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Christie Peebles
Department: Chemical and Biological Engineering
College: Engineering
Phone: 491-6779
Email: christie.peebles@colostate.edu
Focus Area: Biomass conversion
Research: Metabolic engineering for the production of biofuels and biochemicals
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Graham Peers
Department: Biology
College: College of Natural Sciences
Phone: 970.491.6868
Webpage: http://www.biology.colostate.edu/people/gpeers/
Email: graham.peers@colostate.edu
Focus Area: Plant Biotechnology
Research: Photosynthesis, photosynthetic efficiency of algae and cyanobacteria
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Ken Reardon
Department: Chemical and Biological Engineering
College: Engineering
Phone: 970.491.6505
Email: kenneth.reardon@colostate.edu
Focus Area: Biomass conversion and algae biotechnology
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A.S.N. Reddy
Department: Biology
College: Natural Sciences
Phone: 970.491.5773
Email: reddy@colostate.edu
Focus Area: Plant Biotechnology
Research: Regulation of gene expression; cell wall synthesis and degradation
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Tom Santangelo
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
College: Natural Sciences
Phone: 970.491.3150
Email: tom.santangelo@colostate.edu
Focus Area: Regulation of gene expression, metabolic engineering, and archeal biotechnology
Research: Mechanistic transcription regulation, whole cell biocatalyst, metabolic engineering for production of bio-hydrogen and biodiesels, genetic engineering, hyperthermophilic enzymology
http://www.bmb.colostate.edu/people/tjs1/
Kyle Saunders
Department: Political Sciences
College: Liberal Arts
Phone: 970.491.5751
Email: kyle.saunders@colostate.edu
Focus Area: Assessment
Research: Energy Policy
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Sybil Sharvelle
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
College: Engineering
Phone: 970.491.6081
Email: sybil.sharvelle@colostate.edu
Focus Area: Bioconversion
Research: Biogas production; conversion of municipal and agricultural wastes
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Christopher Snow
Department: Chemical and Biological Engineering
College: Engineering
Phone: 970.491.5276
Email: christopher.snow@colostate.edu
Focus Area: Biocatalysis/Saccharification
Research: Computational protein engineering, cellulase redesign, engineering of crystalline enzyme materials, protein structure
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Jorge Vivanco
Department: Horticulture and Landscape Architecture
College: Agricultural Sciences
Phone: 491-7170
Email: j.vivanco@colostate.edu
Focus Area: Plant biotechnology
Research: molecular basis of root secretion of phytochemicals; enzyme bioprospecting
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John Volckens
Department: Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences
College: Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
Phone: 970.491.6341
Email: john.volckens@colostate.edu
Focus Area: Product engineering/combustion; Assessment
Research: Health effects of combustion byproducts of biofuels
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Matthew Wallenstein
Department: Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory/Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability
College: Warner College of Natural Resources
Phone: 970.491.1623
Email: matthew.wallenstein@colostate.edu
Focus Area: Conversion
Research: Microbial Ecology, Decomposition, Biogeochemistry, Soil
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Stephan Weiler
Department: Economics
College: Liberal Arts
Phone: 970.491.5421
Email: stephan.weiler@colostate.edu
Focus Area: Assessment
Research: Energy and environmental economics
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Bryan Willson
Department: Mechanical Engineering
College: Engineering
Phone: 970.491.4783
Email: bryan.willson@colostate.edu
Focus Area: Product engineering/combustion; Bioconversion
Research: Biofuel properties and engine testing; cost-effective algal cultivation systems
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