Safa Ismail

Safa Ismail (sfoshmoode at yahoo.com) is a Senior at SDSU studying Biology. The project that I work on is optimization of lactate acid production. The goal is developing an efficient microbial culture to convert methane into commercially valuable compounds, such as lactate. This will be done by engineering methanotrophic bacteria to produce lactate from methane instead of using the methane to produce biomass.