George Bennett
ProfessorÂ
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Rice University
United States of America
Biography
Dr. George Bennett, PH.D. serves as a Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology at Rice University in Houston, Texas, since 1978. Dr. Bennett has had extensive experience with Clostridia, focusing on understanding the regulation of genes related to solvent production and the use of various genes in metabolic engineering of the organism for production of specific chemicals. His research interests include regulation of gene expression in bacteria, response of bacteria
Research Interest
Enzymes, Biosciences, Molecular biology of prokaryotes, metabolic engineering
Publications
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Mountziaris PM, Shah SR, Lam J, Bennett GN, Mikos AG (2015) A rapid, flexible method for incorporating controlled antibiotic release into porous polymethylmethacrylate space maintainers for craniofacial reconstruction. Biomater Sci.
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Wang D, Wu H, Thakker C, Beyersdorf J, Bennett GN, et al. (2015) Efficient free fatty acid production in engineered Escherichia coli strains using soybean oligosaccharides as feedstock. Biotechnol Prog 31: 686-694.
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Wang D, Thakker C, Liu P, Bennett GN, San KY (2015) Efficient production of free fatty acids from soybean meal carbohydrates. Biotechnol Bioeng 112: 2324-2333.
