https://pages.htgaa.org/2026b/erum-azeez/index.htmlAbout me I’m Erum Azeez Khan, a partner at Messaginglab, a strategic communications firm working with biotech and pharma clients. I have a drug development, healthcare, and tech background, including six years of pharma lab expertise (J&J, GSK). I joined a “climate nanotech startup” that built a reactor that converts carbon emissions into carbon nanomaterials. After that, I was co-founder and CEO of an voice assistant SaaS company that was acquire, and now I’m in the world of biotech strategy & communications. I hold a B.S. in Forensic Chemistry & Toxicology from West Chester University of Pennsylvania, class of 2005.Hugoenhttps://pages.htgaa.org/2026b/erum-azeez/week-01-hw-project-ideas/index.htmlMon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://pages.htgaa.org/2026b/erum-azeez/week-01-hw-project-ideas/index.htmlBiomanufactured Structural White: A TiO2 Replacement 1. What I want to biomanufacture, and why I want to explore a biomanufactured, particle-free white colorant and opacifier, something that could replace titanium dioxide (TiO2, listed as E171 in food) in food coatings, tablet/supplement coatings, and cosmetics.https://pages.htgaa.org/2026b/erum-azeez/week-02-hw-dna-design/index.htmlMon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://pages.htgaa.org/2026b/erum-azeez/week-02-hw-dna-design/index.htmlBiomanufactured Structural White: Engineering Cellulose Fibril Architecture for a TiO2 Replacement Homework 1 proposed a fermented, air-structured white colorant to replace titanium dioxide in food and supplement coatings. This homework designs the genetic construct that sets the structure that colorant depends on. Part 0: Set up in Kernel Repository: Azeez White Project folder: HW2_bcsABD_construct A note on what Kernel can and can’t do for this project. Kernel’s simulator is mammalian-only, so this E. coli construct is designed and assembled in Kernel using SBOL visual language, but not simulated there. Sequence extraction and verification were done in Benchling, from the source record (GenBank M37202) retrieved from NCBI [1].https://pages.htgaa.org/2026b/erum-azeez/week-03-hw-cell-free-design/index.htmlMon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://pages.htgaa.org/2026b/erum-azeez/week-03-hw-cell-free-design/index.htmlErum Azeez Khan · HTBAA 2026, Genspace NYC node · October 2026 Designs submitted: coopetition.htgaa.org. One composition each for sfGFP, PETase and Reteplase, submitted October 8 and 12. Status: Part A and Part B complete. Part C not attempted. Five reagents upvoted in Community Reagents, with the Erv1p rationale written up in B2. If you are picking this up: the open questions are listed at the end of B2 and in the Reflection. The two I would most want challenged are the DsbA-versus-Erv1p mechanism argument and whether H₂O₂ contributes useful oxidizing capacity.https://pages.htgaa.org/2026b/erum-azeez/final-project/index.htmlMon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://pages.htgaa.org/2026b/erum-azeez/final-project/index.html