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Author: biosciences

Jay Keasling

Jay Keasling Professor, Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Professor, Department of Bioengineering Philomathia Chair in Alternative Energy Faculty Senior Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory CEO, Joint BioEnergy Institute   Jay Keasling is a pioneer in engineering microbes and metabolism. During the early 2000s, Jay led a UC Berkeley research team to use engineered yeast […]

Alumni

Ilana Aldor Jorge Alonso-Gutierrez Jenn Anthony Dan Arlow Tyler Backman Constance Bailey Jesus Barajas Jacquelyn Blake-Hedges Michael Belcher Peter Benke Julian Bisten Gregory Bokinsky Douglas Bolesch Mercedes Bonfill Elizabeth Brunk Itay Budin Mike Cantor James Carothers Trent Carrier Rossana Chan Michelle Chang Howard Chou Rong Chen Xiulai Chen Ruthie Chow Victor Chubukov Stacie Cowan-Hecht Pablo […]

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Christopher Whitford


Amin Zargar

Postdoc azargar@berkeley.edu Education PhD Bioengineering, University of Maryland College Park MS Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Maryland College Park BS Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology Research Amin is a chemical and biomedical engineer working as a postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley for Dr. Jay Keasling. First introduced to research as an […]

Tyler W. H. Backman

Postdoctoral Fellow {first initial}{last name} at lbl.gov Education Ph.D. Bioengineering, University of California Riverside B.S. Physics, Oregon State University Research My research focuses on large-scale computational modeling of metabolism, and engineering polyketide synthases in silico for the production of useful small molecules. I am a joint postdoctoral fellow in both the Keasling Lab, and the […]

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