Mike Repkin
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Director, Product Development & Bioresource Management - Omni Rewild
Mike leads Omni Ecosystems’ research and development lab, pioneering new, natural systems that solve diverse ecological challenges with a focus on biological resource recovery and sustainable food production.
Mike invented Omni’s ultra-lightweight growing media and its food production system. He has cultured a library of biota that can metabolize inorganic materials to produce organic matter and fuel plant growth.
Mike led young students in projects that focus on human life support systems and technologies for five years in Chicago through the non-profit Urban Habitat Chicago, which he co-founded. While serving in the Army, his assignments included laboratory positions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology.
When Mike is not on a roof, he can be found working in his outdoor laboratory discovering new ways to provide human life support utilizing biological processes and methods that are compatible with living systems.