Dr. Irene Reizman’s areas of expertise include biochemical engineering and biotechnology. Her research focuses on developing improved microbial strains for renewable chemical production, and she’s currently leading a student research project investigating the use of biosensors for industrial fermentation. Dr. Reizman completed a project in Germany as part of the Green Talents program and also previously worked for LS9, Whirlpool, and SCHOTT AG.
Learn more about Dr. Reizman's current student research projects at .
Academic Degrees
- PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015
- BSE, University of Michigan, 2008
Awards & Honors
- Alfred R. Schmidt Endowed Chair for Excellence in Teaching, 2022 - 2025
- Fellow of the Indiana Academy of Science, 2024
- German Ministry of Research and Education "Green Talents" Award for High Potentials in Sustainable Development, 2014
Publications & Presentations
- C.S. Pirner, N.A. Palmer, I.M.B. Reizman. "Techno-economic assessment of a bioprocess for long-chain dicarboxylic acid production from vegetable oils: A case study for distillers corn oil." Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery (2022).
- A. Gupta, I.M.B. Reizman, C.R. Reisch, K.L.J. Prather. "Autonomous, Scalable and Pathway-Independent Strategies to Dynamically Modulate Metabolic Fluxes for Improved Microbial Production." Nature Biotechnology, 35(3): 273-279, (2017).
- I.M.B. Reizman, A.R. Stenger, C.R. Reisch, A. Gupta, N.C. Connors, K.L.J. Prather. "Improvement of glucaric acid production in E. coli via dynamic control of metabolic fluxes." Metabolic Engineering Communications, 2:109-116, (2015).
- I.M. Brockman, K.L.J. Prather. "Dynamic knockdown of E. coli central metabolism for redirecting glucose-6-phosphate fluxes." Metabolic Engineering, 28: 104-113, (2015).
Research Experiences
- Metabolic engineering of microorganisms for renewable chemical production
- Bioprocess development
- Synthetic biology
Teaching Interests
- Chemical process and product design
- Biochemical engineering
- Biotechnology