BEE Fall 2026 Seminar Series - Dr. Aaron J. Berliner Instructor, Department of Radiation Oncology, Weill Cornell Medicine

Space Bioprocess Engineering from Mars Models to Lunar Regolith Abstract: Sustaining crews on the lunar and Martian surface for extended durations will require on-demand production of food, pharmaceuticals, and materials from in situ resources and mission waste. Through the Center for the Utilization of Biological Engineering in Space (CUBES), we formalized a reference mission architecture for a biomanufacturing-based mission supporting a ~500-day crewed mission on Mars. We extended the Equivalent System Mass (ESM) framework and integrated process models from solar power production through cro