BioF:GREAT will harness AI and deep learning advancements to revolutionize glycoscience research and technology.

By offering equitable access to advanced glycoscience infrastructure and resources, BioFGreat will enhance scientific research and education across all life forms. Through collaborative research, technology development, resource sharing, and expanded educational initiatives, it will bring glycoscience into the scientific mainstream, transforming education and driving paradigm shifts.

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Technology Development
User Facility
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OUR WORK

Democratizing glycoscience
by increasing accessibility to resources, education, and training

OUR VISION

Glycans contribute to countless biological functions in
diverse organism ecosystems

That development of cutting-edge tools and technologies in the glycosciences can be achieved through leveraging recent advances in informatics, enzymology, protein engineering, and analytics, and these achievements will lead to transformational and conceptual advances in the glycosciences across the tree of life.

The BioF:GREAT Team

Leadership Team

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Dr. Lance Wells

Ph.D. Principal Investigator BioF:GREAT

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Dr. Breeanna Urbanowicz

Ph.D., Co-PI, Director of Knowledge Sharing, BioF:GREAT

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Dr. Parastoo Azadi

Ph.D. Co-PI, Director of User Facility, BioF:GREAT

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Dr. Kelley Moreman

Ph.D. Co-PI, Director of Research, BioF:GREAT

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Investigator perspectives

with the BioFoundry, we have a mandate to expand that to an all-species space, from bacteria to plants to microbes—basically all of biology—to understand the enzymes involved in glycan production, how they work, and what are the types of structures they make.”

Our BioFoundry mandate extends to all-species research, encompassing bacteria, plants, and microbes—essentially all biological systems—to explore glycan-producing enzymes, their mechanisms, and the structures they form.