The Engineered Living Materials Institute (ELMI) is a collaborative hub for both basic science and technology development related to materials built of and/or by engineered, non-mammalian, living organisms. Long term, the ELMI will revolutionize technology for society through reimagined infrastructure and human scale products, and enable off-world exploration and habitation, through materials and structures that are grown from renewable resources rather than manufactured, are robust to damage events, and adapt based on environmental user inputs.
We are home to a creative, innovative, collaborative team of researchers pursuing the cutting edge science and technology to bring engineered living materials and structures out of the realm of science fiction and into everyday reality.
please check out our new (still temporary) website: https://elmi.cornell.edu/
Core Faculty Members
Buz Barstow, Biological and Environmental Engineering
Ilana Brito, Biomedical Engineering
Laura Gunn, Plant Biology Section School of Integrative Plant Science
Maria Harrison, Boyce Thompson Institute
Christopher Hernandez, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Sijin Li, Chemical and Biological Engineering
Alyosha Molnar, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Adrienne Roeder, Weill Institute for Cell & Molecular Biology
Jenny Sabin, Architecture
Robert Shepherd, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Rong Yang, Chemical and Biological Engineering
Jingjie Yeo, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Mechanics for Material Design 