{"202071":{"#nid":"202071","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Assistant Professor Mark Styczynski Receives NSF CAREER Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMark Styczynski, an assistant professor in the School of Chemical \u0026amp; Biomolecular Engineering, has been awarded the Early Faculty Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for his research into into developing a versatile, widely applicable approach to engineering cells to produce valuable products such as biofuels or pharmaceuticals.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe CAREER Program offers NSF\u2019s most prestigious award in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education, and the integration of education and research within the context of their organization\u2019s mission. Such activities should build a firm foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrating education and research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStyczynski, who is the 15\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E CAREER Award recipient in the School of Chemical \u0026amp; Biomolecular Engineering, says that his project, \u201cAn Integrated, Metabolomics-based Method for Metabolic Engineering,\u201d will use measurement of biochemical intermediates of cellular metabolism, or metabolites, to identify improved routes to engineer cells that can yield valuable products.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhile people routinely use the measurement of one or a few metabolites to drive metabolic engineering, surprisingly no one has developed an effective approach to use measurements of many metabolites from across all of metabolism, called \u2018metabolomics,\u2019 for this purpose,\u201d Styczynski says. \u201cWe will take this metabolomics data and combine it with mathematical models of metabolism, as well as machine learning, to establish a process where alternating experimental and computational iterations will enable us to engineer cells more effectively.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs part of the CAREER Award, Styczynski received a grant, which will be used to synthesize his current research with metabolic goals in order to tackle the larger problems in biotechnology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOne of the direct impacts of the grant will be enabling a biofuels-oriented metabolic engineering application of the approach we will develop,\u201d Styczynski says. \u201cMore broadly, this will enable us to expand the scope of what can be produced biologically rather than chemically, which would have significant industrial and environmental impacts.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhile the award helps aid future research, Styczynski says it will also support his collaborations with elementary, middle, and high schools, including\u0026nbsp;Lambert High School in Forsyth County, Ga.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe school is starting a team for the International Genetically Engineered Machine Foundation\u2019s Synthetic Biology competition, and the award will provide them with critical supplies over the next five years, with the hope of establishing an active, successful team. \u201cWithout this award, those students might struggle for access to resources for their projects,\u201d he says.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMark Styczynski, an assistant professor in the School of Chemical \u0026amp; Biomolecular Engineering, has been awarded the Early Faculty Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for his research into into developing a versatile, widely applicable approach to engineering cells to produce valuable products such as biofuels or pharmaceuticals.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27741","created_gmt":"2013-03-26 09:24:40","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:13:55","author":"Katie Brown","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-03-26T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2013-03-26T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"68544":{"id":"68544","type":"image","title":"Dr. Mark Styczynski","body":null,"created":"1449177185","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:13:05","changed":"1475894594","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:14","alt":"Dr. Mark Styczynski","file":{"fid":"192600","name":"styczynski.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/styczynski_2.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/styczynski_2.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1311463,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/styczynski_2.jpg?itok=SHUxP8YY"}}},"media_ids":["68544"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/","title":"National Science Foundation"},{"url":"http:\/\/styczynski.chbe.gatech.edu\/","title":"Styczynski\u0027s Research Website"}],"groups":[{"id":"1240","name":"School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"9413","name":"CAREER Award"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"13510","name":"Mark Styczynski"},{"id":"362","name":"National Science Foundation"},{"id":"363","name":"NSF"},{"id":"167750","name":"School of Chemical \u0026 Biomolecular Engineering"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"},{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EKatie Brown\u003Cbr \/\u003ESchool of Chemical \u0026amp; 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