hmwoo@lbl.gov Education B.S. Korea University, South Korea, 2004 M.S., Korea Advanced Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea, 2006 Ph.D. Forschunszentrum Juelich, Germany, 2010 Postdoc, JBEI, 2011 Research Metabolic engineering and Synthetic Biology of industrial microorganisms, Microbial genetics, Lab automation, and high-throughput experiments
Justin Baerwald
jbaerwald@berkeley.edu Education PhD student in Chemical Engineering, UC Berkeley BS in Chemical Engineering, University Wisconsin Madison Research My research interests include synthetic biology, metabolic engineering, and fermentative engineering.
Xixi Zhao
xzhao2@lbl.gov Education Ph.D. in Genetics, Sun Yat-sen University Research My current research focuses on triterpene saponins biosynthesis in yeast. In addition, I am interested in transcription factor-based biosensor development and engineering, and CRISPR-transposon used for metabolic engineering.
Radhakrishnan Mahadevan
rmahadevan@lbl.gov Education Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware Research Genome-scale modeling, Pathway Prediction, Strain Design, Machine learning for protein and strain engineering
Peter Winegar
peterwinegar@berkeley.edu Education Ph.D. in Chemistry, Northwestern University (Advisor: Prof. Chad Mirkin) B.S. in Chemistry, Michigan Technological University Research Peter is a chemist working as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California Berkeley for Prof. Jay Keasling. Peter received a B.S. in Chemistry from Michigan Technological University and was recognized with the Barry Goldwater Scholarship. […]
Casper van der Luijt
CasperVDL@lbl.gov Education PhD student at University of Copenhagen and Technical University of Denmark MSc in Life Science & Technology, Delft University of Technology BSc in Life Science & Technology, Leiden University and Delft University of Technology Research I’m working on recombinant protein production in filamentous fungi to develop sustainable microbial foods. My PhD project is […]
Maria Astolfi
mastolfi@lbl.gov Education Ph.D. student in Bioengineering, University of California-Berkeley & UCSF, USA B.Tech in Biotechnology, Federal University of Amazonas, Brazil Research I am passionate about synthetic biology to grow colorful, flavorful, and meaningful natural products from our vast biodiversity. In the Keasling Lab, I am excited to work at the intersection of multi-omics, machine learning, […]