RobertBertrand@lbl.gov Education BSc in Biochemistry at the University of Winnipeg PhD in Natural Products Chemistry at the University of Manitoba Research Developing high-energy polyketide biofuels.
“Dan” Qingyun Dan
qdan@lbl.gov Education: Ph.D. Biochemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor B.S. Biological Sciences, Peking University Research interests: My primary research goal in the Keasling lab is to understand PKS/NRPS biochemistry and structure for bioproduction of useful chemicals. I am also interested in identifying and characterizing novel biochemical pathways in nature. Google Scholar Linkedin
Bridget Luckie
BLuckie@lbl.gov Education PhD student in the Molecular and Cellular Biology Program at UC Berkeley B.S in Biochemistry and B.S. in Genetics from Clemson University Research I am interested in exploring, harnessing, and expanding the metabolic repertoire of the human microbiota. LinkedIn
Kevin Yin
kyyin@lbl.gov Education Microbiology PhD student in UC Berkeley Plant and Microbial Biology department B.S. in Microbiology from UCLA Research I am interested in harnessing microbes’ diverse metabolic capabilities to address environmental challenges. Approaches I’m particularly interested in using to achieve this include genome mining and polyketide synthase engineering. LinkedIn Twitter
Matthew Incha
incha@lbl.gov Education Graduate student in Plant and Microbiology at UC-Berkeley B.S. in Molecular Biology from University of Wisconsin – Madison Research I’m interested in developing high-throughput screens for biosynthetic pathways and creating methods of interrogating intracellular metabolic fluxes. Using functional genomics I would also like to identify new enzymes and proteins that can be applied […]
Sam Crowe
scrowe@lbl.gov Education PhD Student in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, UC Berkeley BS/MS in Chemical Engineering, Northwestern University Research I’m a PhD student in UC Berkeley’s Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department. I’m interested in the concerted effort of current experimental methods, high throughput robotics, and machine learning for smarter modular enzyme engineering for production of novel […]
Alberto Nava
aanava@lbl.gov Education PhD student in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, UC Berkeley BS of Mathematics and Chemical Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno Research I’m interested in developing high-throughput computational and experimental techniques for the de novo design of enzymes.
Jessica Mahinthakumar
jessicamahinthakumar@berkeley.edu Education B.S. Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, North Carolina State University Research Synthetic biology and yeast engineering for the production of drugs, specifically engineering of the meroterpenoid biosynthetic pathway.
Yuzhong Liu
lyuzhong@berkeley.edu Education PhD Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley BS Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Research Coming from a chemistry background, I would like to synthesize biomolecules that are difficult to make by means of traditional chemical synthesis, as well as to understand the enzymatic pathways at a molecular level. I am also interested in […]
Michael Cronce
Education B.S. in Biology, UNC Chapel Hill Research I am a student in the UCSF- UC Berkeley Graduate Program in Bioengineering. My general research interests include mechanisms of infectious disease, metabolic engineering, and therapeutic R&D. Access to proper nutrition and consistent medical treatment presents a substantial challenge in developing countries. Living therapeutics, such as engineered […]
Michael Belcher
Education: BS in Botany with a focus in genetics and molecular biology and Summa Cum Laude honors; Oregon State University Background & Research Interests I am a graduate student in the Plant and Microbial Biology Department at UC Berkeley, pursuing my PhD in Plant Biology. My main interests are in the field of synthetic biology, and […]
Luis Enrique Valencia
luisvalencia@berkeley.edu Education Ph.D. student in Bioengineering, UC Berkeley/ UC San Francisco B.S. in Biochemistry, University of Texas at Austin Research Summary I am a PhD student in the UCSF/UC Berkeley Bioengineering graduate program. I am fascinated by the chemistry observed in nature’s enzymes. My research aims to better understand how we can engineer enzymes to […]
Robert Haushalter
rwhaushalter@lbl.gov Research My research in the Keasling Lab focuses on developing new biochemical pathways for producing commodity chemicals from renewable sugars by engineering microbes. I specialize in using fatty acid and polyketide synthase enzymes to produce new compounds and drop-in replacements for currently-used products.
Jing Huang
JingHuang@lbl.gov Education Ph.D. in Biology, Tsinghua University B.S. in Biotechnology, Beijing University of Chemical Technology Research My primary goal is to express and assemble engineered biocatalysts inside cells and use them to synthesize unnatural products. In addition, I am also interested in the development of transcription factor based biosensors.