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Ask for what you want - and be ready when it happens

How my journey led me to Shiru

Megan Pittman
VP, People
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Shiru Welcomes David Melis as Director of Fermentation

With his specialized skills and proven expertise in fermentation process development and scale-up, David will play a vital role in realizing Shiru’s mission.

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Celebrating microbes on this National Beer Day!

Today is National Beer Day, and we thought it would be amiss to not celebrate the little microbes that not only give us tasty beer, but are what help fuel Flourish™, Shiru's novel protein ingredients discovery platform. So grab a cold drink and read this blog post from Akemi Kunibe, Shiru's Protein Scientist, as she walks us through a brief history of beer making and how this process is related to the way that Shiru creates the next generation of sustainable ingredients.

Akemi Kunibe, PhD
Protein Scientist
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Shiru Welcomes Mariana Suguieda as Laboratory Technician

Mariana brings experience and enthusiasm that will supercharge our day-to-day operations and purification efforts.

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Biodiversity: the foundation of discovery, Part 1

To find new functional ingredients for the plant-based industry, we've been hard at work growing our protein database of natural sources. While a database of 450 million proteins is certainly impressive, read on to learn why we think it's time for you to pay more attention to what is arguably the heart of our database: biodiversity.

Chris Leber, PhD
Senior Data Scientist
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Recombinant protein production in microbes

Recombinant proteins are widely used in life-saving medicines, with recombinant insulin being one of the biggest success stories. Recently, the use of recombinant proteins in food has been gaining traction. Read this new post by Swati Choudhary (Shiru's Head of Strain Engineering) to learn more about how we're using Flourish™, our cutting-edge ingredient Discovery platform, to identify and create novel recombinant proteins and why we think it's important to utilize this technology for creating a sustainable food system.

Swati Choudhary, PhD
Head of Strain Engineering
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Shiru Welcomes Arash Abbasi as Machine Learning Researcher

Arash’s experience, motivation and values will help us in our work of finding accurate and meaningful protein representations, which will ultimately enable Shiru to find better alternative proteins for the food industry.

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