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Brian
Davison
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BRIAN
H. DAVISON is the Chief Scientist for Systems Biology and Biotechnology
at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He recently served two years
as the Director of Life Sciences Division. He was previously a
Distinguished Researcher & BioChemical Engineering Research
Group leader. In his twenty-one years at ORNL he has performed
biotechnology research in variety of areas including bioconversion
of renewable resources (ethanol, organic acids, solvents), non-aqueous
biocatalysis, systems analysis of microbes (cultivation and proteomics),
biofiltration of VOCs, mixed cultures, immobilization of microbes
and enzymes, metal biosorption, and extractive fermentations.
If there is a theme connecting his work, it is at the interface
of solid, liquid, and gas phases between biocatalysts and their
environments. This has resulted in over 90 publications and six
patents. He led a multilab team which received an R&D100 Award
for “Production of Chemicals from Biologically Derived Succinic
Acid,” in 1997. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering
from the California Institute of Technology, and his B.S.E. in
Chemical Engineering, from the University of Rochester. He co-chaired
the 15th to 26th Symposia on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals
and served as editor of Proceedings in Appl. Biochem. Biotechnol.,
(1994 – 2005). The Symposium grew from 150 to over 400 attendees
during these twelve years (ten with Mark Finkelstein). He is the
Chair of the ORNL Institutional Biosafety Committee from 2001
to present. He was named a Fellow in the American Institute for
Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), 2006. He was given
the 2006 C.D. Scott award by the Society of Industrial Microbiology
at the Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals. He
is also an Adjunct Professor of Chemical Engineering, at the University
of Tennessee-Knoxville where he supervised one Ph.D. student and
four Masters students.  |
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