Plastic pollution is a significant, growing problem facing the environment. Two researchers from the University of Tennessee are developing novel microbial enzymes to help answer the question: Is there a way to create more environmentally friendly plastics? Todd Reynolds is a professor in UT Knoxville’s Department of Microbiology. Jordan Cannon is a doctoral student in (read more)
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UTRF startup, BASEwise Solutions advance quantitative genotyping and metagenome profiling
Bode Olukolu is an assistant professor in the Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, who co-founded a startup, BASEwise Solutions, to bring to market his technology, OmeSeq-qRRS, a next-generation sequencing (NGS)-based reduced representation sequencing (RRS) platform for genotyping and metagenome profiling. Unlike other approaches, Olukolu’s technology only sequences a (read more)
Collaboration Is Key in Neuromorphic Computing Research: TENNLab Research Group Issued Seven Patents, Four Patents Pending
The University of Tennessee Research Foundation is proud to support researchers in emerging and developing research fields, including neuromorphic computing, a computing system design modeled after the human brain. The TENNLab Neuromorphic Computing Research Group is made up of faculty, postdocs, graduate students, and undergraduates who are developing hardware and software to aid in the (read more)