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Allison Campbell here with Scott Baker from the Energy and Environment
Directorate at PNNL and we're down at the Bioproduct Sciences and
Engineering Laboratory on the Washington state university campus
Scott, can you tell us a little bit about the laboratory and yourself?
well I came here
originally from
Oregon I grew up in Portland, I went to Oregon State University
before I was here I was in San Diego
working in industry, first with fungle
plant pathogens
transitioning over to fungis industrial micro-organisms
to make bio-fuels
and either enzymes or bioproducts, chemicals, renewable chemicals
biofuels. We're standing at BSEL that, as mentioned stands on the Washington State University campus
We have a Fungal Biotechnology Group here
where our interests are
using fungi to convert biomass to fuels and chemicals
and the enzymes
and there's also a big chemistry
component, chemical engineering for thermocchemical
conversion of biomass
to fuels and products.
And I've asked you to lead the bioscience theme for EMSL, what are the
opportunities you see for us there and how do you see us working more closely
with the groups here?
I think there's a lot of opportunities for biology in EMSL.
There's just tremendous analytical capability in spectrometry, spectroscopy
microscopy
computational
sciences
so so I think there os a lot of
just amazing talent there
for both researchers
capabilities leads,scientists, whatever you want to call all the people up there,
as well as analytical capabilities for us
down here there is just tremendous opportunities to
expand our horizons as far as the
analysis that we can do on our fungal systems
to produce biofuels.
I appreciate you taking the time and I'm very grateful that you're helping us
uh... as the Interim Biolead for EMSL and I look forward to working with you.
Likewise, thank you for the opportunity and I am having a ton of fun working in EMSL
Great, cool.