Genevieve Millie Alexander
Environmental engineering
Hometown: Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
Graduation date: Spring 2028
Additional details: Honors student
FURI | Summer 2025
Validating High-Throughput Kinetics Methods for Diverse Chain Elongating Microbes
This project aims to understand the mechanisms and impacts of product inhibition on chain elongating cultures with respect to growth rate, product selectivity and specificity, and shifts in the microbial community. Testing diverse conditions for chain elongation using different electron donors/acceptors, pure and mixed microbial cultures, and varied concentrations of inhibitory chain elongation products will drive this goal. A deeper understanding of the electron donors/acceptors, metabolic pathways, and output process for these cultures can thus be achieved, allowing for more circular production of medium chain carboxylic acids, more sustainable biorefinery processes, and diversion of waste from greenhouse gasses.
Mentor: Anca Delgado
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