bbrownfield

Bryce Brownfield began his career as an advocate for climate/environmental issues in 1998, when as a 2nd grade student he gathered the school assembly to discuss deforestation of the Amazon. He went on to debate climate issues in high school, and finally discovered his passion for climate biotechnology as an undergraduate at the University of Colorado. Bryce worked on a pioneering project to engineer enzymatic cellulose cellulose degradation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, by designing a large multi-subunit complex known as a cellulosome. Fascinated by the potential of engineering ultrastructural features in biosynthetic systems, Bryce went on to study membrane trafficking at Cornell University, where he earned his PhD. Understanding the features of a cell's penultimate barrier is applicable to every biological engineering problem. Relevant functionally as a scaffold or selectivity filter, or technically as a barrier through which materials and/or information must be exchanged. Now, Bryce is excited to apply his expertise in cell biology to enhance the effectiveness of biosynthetic climate solutions.

October 2023