1media/Chloesermet2_thumb.jpg2021-07-23T17:26:11+00:00Center for UG Excellence929059fe9a8db94662876b11cdef6e83b70e4c811361Chloe Sermetplain2021-07-23T17:26:11+00:0020210430115238-080020210430115238-0800Center for UG Excellence929059fe9a8db94662876b11cdef6e83b70e4c81
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12021-07-23T17:58:04+00:00Chloe Sermet4Chloe Sermetplain2021-07-28T15:24:16+00:00Faculty Mentor: Dr. Cedric Owens Major/Minor: Psychology/Health Science Title: We Don’t Want To Go Green, We Want Our Sunflower Meal Cookies Pristine Abstract: Sunflower meal is a product that can be used as a gluten-free alternative as it has very low amounts of allergens compared to soy protein and almond meal. However, in baking, when we mix it with baking powder or baking soda, we are exposing it to high pH and it turns green which makes it unappealing to the food industry. Our goal is to engineer an esterase which is a type of enzyme to fully eliminate greening in sunflower meal by hydrolyzing (breaking down) the compounds that cause the greening. To engineer our enzyme, we will use high throughput mutagenesis where potential residues that increase enzymatic activity will be randomly mutated to all other possible 20 amino acids.
