Postdoc
ceiben@lbl.gov
Research
As the world population grows and the standard of living increases, we need sustainable, scalable and environmentally friendly ways to produce the everyday materials we often take for granted. To address this problem I am interested in engineering microbes to make useful chemicals from sugars. Currently I am working on novel pathways which are ATP positive and redox balanced as such pathways have many advantages at production scale.
I am also interested in designing and implementing novel carbon fixation pathways which have the potential to outperform the Calvin Benson cycle which performs ~95% of biological CO2 fixation today.