jbr@lbl.gov Education PhD Student in Bioengineering, UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco BS in Computer Science and Engineering Physics, Cornell University Research I’m excited about carbon reduction and sequestration, and in the Keasling lab two areas in particular. First, computational optimization of novel polyketide synthases (PKSs) for retrobiosynthesis. Second, reengineering of carbon metabolism to improve reactor […]
Isaac Donnell
idonnell@lbl.gov Education PhD student in Chemistry, UC Berkeley B.A. in Chemistry with distinction, Carleton College Research I am interested in bringing new chemistries into metabolic pathways to generate novel natural products, and developing assays for directed evolution of these pathways
Leah Keiser
lkeiser@lbl.gov Education PhD student in Chemical Engineering at UC Berkeley BS in Chemical Engineering from Northwestern University. Research My research interests include synthetic biology and protein engineering. I am researching how we can engineer polyketide synthases for the efficient production of novel products.
Sarah Klass
sklass@berkeley.edu Education Emory University, Atlanta GA, B.S University of California Berkeley, Ph.D. Research With a chemistry and chemical biology background, my focus has been on chemically and genetically modifying natural protein structures for advanced material functions. During my Ph.D. in the Francis lab at UC Berkeley, I studied the impact of sequence modification on intrinsically […]
Guangxu Lan
Education PhD Chemistry, University of Chicago BS Chemistry, Peking University Research Guangxu’s work focuses on engineering bacterium to convert polyolefin waste into value-added chemicals. Present estimates suggest that of the 359 million tons of plastics produced annually worldwide, 150-200 million tons accumulate in landfill or in the natural environment. To recover this plastic waste, particularly […]
Graham Hudson
Education PhD Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign B.S. Biochemistry, Saint Louis University Research Graham is a chemical biologist working as a postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley for Dr. Jay Keasling. Graham earned his B.S. in Biochemistry from Saint Louis University during which he performed research in the lab of Prof. Brent Znosko and investigated […]
Vayu Maini Rekdal
Miller Institute Postdoctoral Fellow vayu.mr@gmail.com Education Ph.D. in Biochemistry, Harvard University B.A. in Biology and Chemistry summa cum laude, Carleton College Research Vayu’s first experiments were done in the kitchen of his multicultural home in Stockholm, Sweden. He initially moved to the U.S. to work in restaurants, but the flavors, textures, and sensations of the […]
Aidan Cowan
aidancowan@berkeley.edu Education PhD student in Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Berkeley B.A. in Biology, Macalester College Research Aidan is interested in developing selection systems that allow for the evolution of proteins or strains with desirable traits. He takes a combinatorial approach to experimental design and is excited by large and diverse DNA libraries. […]
Anna Lisa Fear
alfear@lbl.gov Education Massachusetts Institute of Technology – B.Sc. Life Science 1987 – B.Sc. Humanities and Science – Creative Writing, Theater, and Biology 1986 Research Strain and Enzyme Engineering Linkedin
Chunjun Zhan
chunjunzhan@lbl.gov Jiangnan University, China Education Ph.D. Light Industry Technology, Jiangnan University， China MS Light Industry Technology, Jiangnan University, China Research My background is metabolic engineering, especially engineer different pathways in yeast. One of my focuses is the engineering of Pichia pastoris for protein expression and high-valued chemical production. I also investigate one-carbon source (methanol) utilization in […]
Tom myces, PhD
Specialist in biosynthesis PhD, Fancy university of the soil >28 000 Publications https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/search/all/?term=streptomyces Synthesized many drugs now in the market Loves to sporulate
Matthias Schmidt
mschmidt@lbl.gov Education Doctoral Student in Biology at RWTH Aachen University, Germany M.S. in Molecular and Applied Biotechnology from RWTH Aachen University, Germany B.S. in Chemistry and Biotechnology from Hochschule Niederrhein, Germany Research I am a PhD student from the RWTH Aachen University in Germany, and I pursue my research at the Keasling Lab. My work […]
Seokjung Cheong
scheong@lbl.gov Education PhD in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice University B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Industrial Biological Engineering, Tsinghua University Research I am a postdoctoral research with metabolic engineering background, and my current research goal in Keasling Lab is to produce commodity chemicals through engineered polyketide synthases (PKSs) in microbes like E. coli and Streptomyces. […]
Zilong Wang
zilongwang@lbl.gov Education PhD Biotechnology, National University of Singapore, Singapore MS Biology, Sun Yat-sen University (Zhongshan University), China Research My background is on the structural & functional study of polyketide synthase (PKS) and its engineering. One of my focus is on the biosynthesis with chimeric PKS to produce valuable compounds. We use synthetic biology to effectively […]