Carrine Blank
CEO Co-Founder Lead Scientist Microbiologist at CarbonNutra LLC
Missoula, Montana, United States
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Top SchoolCarrine Blank is a PhD-trained microbiologist and entrepreneur who co-founded and leads CarbonNutra LLC, pioneering a patented, low-carbon process that uses chitin from waste crustacean shells to grow microalgae that both clean wastewater and produce high-value oils and pigments. With 11+ years of applied and academic experience spanning research faculty roles at Washington University and the University of Montana, she combines deep phylogenomic and microbial ontology expertise with hands-on bioprocess innovation. Her technology uniquely removes phosphorus and odor compounds from industrial and natural waters without adding nitrogen, and her culture collection of 150+ strains enables tailored strain–wastewater pairings. She has published methods for phylogenomic dating and built NLP tools to codify microbial phenotypes at scale, showing a rare blend of computational and wet-lab skills. Based in Missoula, Montana, Carrine balances scientific rigor with practical deployment, turning shellfish industry waste into sustainable bioproducts and measurable greenhouse gas reductions.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Integrative Biology, 4.0, PhD, Integrative Biology, 4.0 at University of California, BerkeleyBSc, Molecular Cell Biology, 3.37, BSc, Molecular Cell Biology, 3.37 at University of Washington
English
Github Skills (16)
ontology10
microbiology10
bioinformatics7
semantic-web6
geneontology6
metadata6
owl6
ontologies6
open-science5
compounds5
foundry5
rdf4
dictionary2
computational-biology2
scientific-publications2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
carrineblank/MicrO
Apr 2015 - Jun 2018
A Microbial Ontology of Phenotypic and Metabolic Characters, Assays, and Culture Media Found in Prokaryotic Taxonomic Descriptions
Contributions:141 commits, 137 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
bioinformatics-databasesmicrobiologyphenomicprokaryotic-taxonomic-descriptions
carrineblank/MicroPIEDigester
Feb 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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