Shannon Hoffman
AY 22-23 PECS Student Chair
Hoffman studies sustainable yeast bioprocessing with a key goal of producing animal proteins with yeast to help relieve society’s growing dependence on livestock. By developing new tools to produce these animal-based proteins, she aims to open the door to vegan foods that taste and feel like regular meat and dairy, to the sustainable production of protein-derived pharmaceuticals, and to biodegradable biomaterials such as spider silks. Hoffman is advised by José Avalos, assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment.