STAFF
MANAGEMENT
Members of our management staff include IBRL director roles as well as leads for our technical teams. This means that some of the staff you’ll find on this list will appear again on technical team lists.
Learn more about our management team members below.
TECHNICAL TEAM
The IBRL Technical Team is broken into the following categories: fermentation, downstream processing (DSP), analytical lab, and food science.
The fermentation team executes pilot-scale precision fermentations (upstream processing), while the DSP team focuses on the extraction, purification, and concentration of target molecules.
The analytical lab has capabilities on a per sample cost basis in addition to analytics supporting pilot plant projects, and the food science team provides the space and resources for collaboration in food and bioprocessing through their plug-and-play utilities and product development kitchen.
See the full lists of our technical team members below.
BUSINESS OFFICE
Our business office staff is responsible for the coordination of the day-to-day operations of the IBRL. This includes overseeing business functions such as accounting, client relations, communications and marketing, grant management, business development and more.
The business staff also organizes the IBRL’s ongoing series of short courses, working with both internal and external partners to offer a variety of educational courses for industry professionals.
FASTER INTERNS
The Food and Agricultural Science in Technology Education and Research (FASTER) Program is a paid internship program providing undergraduate students the chance to work with industry leaders and top researchers from various disciplines. Students are equipped with hands-on experience in the IBRL and the Food Science Pilot Plant.
Learn more about our FASTER program here and see the full list of our FASTER interns below.
PSM Students
The College of ACES offers Professional Science Master’s (PSM) in two programs that frequently collaborate with IBRL: Bioprocessing & Bioenergy, and Food Science & Human Nutrition. The PSM is a non-thesis Master of Science on-campus program.
Learn more about the PSM degree program here and see a full list of our current PSM students below.