Robert Jinkerson
@JinkersonLab
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scientist, chemE professor @UCRiverside, co-founder @ChiBotanic, working on plants, algae, coral, artificial photosynthesis
Riverside, CA
Joined November 2017
Our paper “A hybrid inorganic–biological artificial photosynthesis system for energy-efficient food production” is out @NatureFood! We propose a new technology for energy efficient food production independent of biological photosynthesis. 1/👇.
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RT @LinaCastano_D: I'm impressed to see the SPACE tomatoes from @JinkersonLab they are making space agriculture a reality #PlantBio23 @ASPB….
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Thrilled to share my insights in this recent @Forbes article discussing farms of the future! Thanks to Juergen Eckhardt and @KiraPeikoff @LeapsByBayer for writing the story.
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RT @ScienceMagazine: Crops grown without sunlight could help feed astronauts bound for Mars, and someday supplement dinner plates on Earth.….
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RT @Xiang_lab: Excited to have joined the Bioengineering Department @UCRiverside. Our lab is looking for postdocs to join our #NSF funded p….
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Our work on producing food without photosynthesis has been featured in a news article @ScienceMagazine written by @RobertFService! Check it out to learn about how we are trying to reimagine food production on Earth and in space!.🚫☀️➡️🌱🍅🍄➡️🍽️.
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"We've gotten pretty good at building successful startups, but we're not very good at translating that into sustainable businesses and commercial successes.". Interesting read from @Solt_DB on "How to Win in Synthetic Biology".
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Congrats @ocean_keshi on your @FrontMarineSci work using cerium dioxide nanoparticles to mitigate ROS/RNS in #Symbiodiniaceae. Glad our lab could help your effort on this interesting approach and looking forward to seeing where you can take this idea! 🪸?.
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Check out the @NatGeo article about our recent work on growing food w/o photosynthesis written by @themadstone . Can food crops grow in the dark? Scientists are working out how.
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RT @Jiao_Lab: Our latest work on artificial photosynthesis for food production was just published online @NatureFoodJnl It’s a great collab….
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@naturefood @Jiao_Lab @DeepSpaceFood This was a collaborative effort between researchers at @UCRiverside- @LzbthHann @marcusH_D, Dang Le, Martha Orozco-Cárdenas, and Andres Narvaez and researchers at @UDelaware- @Jiao_Lab and Sean Overa. Funding provided by @FoundationFAR and #TRISH @BCMSpaceHealth @NASA end/.
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@naturefood @Jiao_Lab @DeepSpaceFood Ultimately, re-imagining food production without biological photosynthesis could lead to transformative new ways to produce food. Increased energy efficiency should lessen environmental impact by increasing food production without the need for new agricultural lands. 8/.
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@naturefood @Jiao_Lab Near term applications of using artificial photosynthesis for food production could be in space flight applications and controlled environment agriculture here on Earth. Currently we are evaluating this tech in NASA’s @DeepSpaceFood Challenge. 7/.
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@naturefood @Jiao_Lab Powering our system with commercial photovoltaics allows for an increase in solar-to-food energy efficiency by 18-fold for yeast production and 4-fold for algae compared to biological photosynthesis. This mean less land would be required to produce the same amount of food. 6/
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@naturefood @Jiao_Lab This technology could be expanded to cultivate crops as well. Evaluation of lettuce, cowpea, tomato, rice, pepper, green pea, canola, tobacco, and Arabidopsis found that carbon from exogenously supplied acetate incorporates into biomass through major metabolic pathways. 5/
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@naturefood @Jiao_Lab We optimized the acetate-containing effluent to allow for cultivation of algae, yeast, and mushroom mycelium in the dark, heterotrophically. This is the first time these organisms have ever grown without inputs from photosynthesis or ancient photosynthesis (petroleum)! 4/
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@naturefood We collaborated with @Jiao_Lab who developed a two-step CO2 electrolyzer to produce a highly concentrated acetate stream with a 57% carbon selectivity. Electricity, carbon dioxide, and water go in, acetate and a few co-products come out as a liquid effluent. 3/
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