The Roell lab is working to further the field of synthetic biology. We believe that many products that are typically derived from fossil resources can be sustainably and economically made from fermentations with yeast or bacteria. Historically, the costs associated with strain development and bioprocess optimization have made this approach prohibitively expensive. Our research focuses on developing tools to leverage bioreactor operations, fermentation results, and omics data to bridge the gap between research and real-world application to make bio-derived products a commercial reality.
RESEARCH
ABOUT GARRETT
Garrett Roell is an Assistant Professor in the
College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources
(CTAHR) in the
Department of Molecular Biosciences & Bioengineering
at the
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
Previously, Garrett earned his Ph.D. at Washington University in St.
Louis in
Yinjie Tang’s Group. While working on his degree, Garrett earned a DOE Office
of Science Graduate Student Research Award that allowed him to work
at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab with
Hector García Martín.
PUBLICATIONS
Alyssa M. Worland, Zhenlin Han, Jessica Maruwan, Yu Wang, Zhi-Yan Du, Yinjie J. Tang, Wei Wen Su*, Garrett W. Roell*
Zhengyang Xiao, Wenyu Li, Hannah Moon, Garrett W. Roell*, Yixin Chen*, and Yinjie J. Tang*
Garrett W. Roell, Christina Schenk, Winston E. Anthony, Rhiannon R. Carr, Aditya Ponukumati, Joonhoon Kim, Elena Akhmatskaya, Marcus Foston, Gautam Dantas, Tae Seok Moon, Yinjie J. Tang, Hector García Martín
Garrett W. Roell, Ashik Sathish, Ni Wan, Qianshun Cheng, Zhiyou Wen, Yinjie J. Tang, Forrest Sheng Bao
Garrett W. Roell, Rhiannon R. Carr, Tayte Campbell, Zeyu Shang, William R. Henson, Jeffrey J.Czajka, Hector García Martín, Fuzhong Zhang, Marcus Foston, Gautam Dantas, Tae Seok Moon, Yinjie J.Tang
Garrett W. Roell, Jian Zha, Rhiannon R. Carr, Mattheos A. Koffas, Stephen S. Fong, and Yinjie J. Tang
CONTACT
The Roell lab is looking for students at all levels (undergraduates, masters, and Ph.D. students). If you are interested in conducting research at the intersection of synthetic biology and AI, please contact Garrett directly at groell@hawaii.edu.
1910 East-West Road
Sherman Laboratory 228
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Honolulu, HI 96822