The Engineering Biology Research Consortium (EBRC) is a non-profit, public-private partnership between academics and industry devoted to advancing engineering biology initiatives nationally and globally. Since 2019, the EBRC has been developing visionary technical research roadmaps for the engineering biology community. These identify areas of synthetic biology research priorities for various themes over the next two, five, ten, and twenty years, and help orient funding agencies, academia, industry, and the government toward proper scientific efforts.

I have contributed as a scientist author to two of these roadmaps; in addition, I illustrated figures for the six themes of the 2022 Engineering Biology for Climate & Sustainability roadmap. The 2022 themes were: biosequestration of greenhouse gasses; mitigating environmental pollution; conservation of ecosystems and biodiversity; food and agriculture; transportation and energy production; and materials production and industrial processes.

All six theme illustrations are shown here; the EBRC has thus far (as of September, 2022) released three full themes of the roadmap, and is finalizing the last three for publication. The elements included in these illustrations are main components of each technical theme. In addition, each theme is colored using one of the main EBRC official colors and related hues.