Principal Investigator
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 to synthetically produce artemisinin, the powerful anti-malarial drug. Researchers at the Keasling Lab are now using the same technology to produce other pharmaceuticals, commodity chemicals, and cellulosic biofuels.
Scientific staff
Robert Haushalter
Postdoctoral Researchers
Chenyi Li
“Dan” Qingyun Dan
Graham Hudson
Namil Lee
Ning Qin
Ofer Prinz Setter
Peter Winegar
Sarah Klass
Soonkyu Hwang
Thomas Young
Xixi Zhao
Ziwang Wei
Graduate Students
Aidan Cowan
Allegra Messinese
Allie Pearson
BJ Cawthon
Cholapat (Turbo) Varongchayakul
Ezechinyere Ukabiala
Falcon Iverson Soedarsono
Isaac Donnell
Jacob B. Roberts
Justin Baerwald
Kevin Yin
Leah Keiser
Lucas Waldburger
Maria Astolfi
Michael Cronce
Nathan Lanclos
Alumni
- Ilana Aldor
- Jorge Alonso-Gutierrez
- Jenn Anthony
- Dan Arlow
- Tyler Backman
- Constance Bailey
- Jesus Barajas
- Jacquelyn Blake-Hedges
- Michael Belcher
- Peter Benke
- Robert Bertrand
- 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
- Seokjung Cheong
- Ruthie Chow
- Victor Chubukov
- Stacie Cowan-Hecht
- Sam Crowe
- Pablo Cruz-Morales
- Samuel Curran
- Bernardo Da Costa
- Brandon Curtis
- Rob Dahl
- Elias Englund
- Leo d’Espaux
- Marie Dielentheis-Frenken
- Jeffrey Dietrich
- John Dueber
- Christopher B. Eiben
- Natalya Eliashberg Crump
- Sara Falkenberg Holm
- Anna Lisa Fear
- Veronica Fok
- Lisa Fontaine-Bodin
- Jee Loon Foo
- Jeffrey Fortman
- Matthew Garcia
- Fei Gan
- Beibei Ge
- David Garcia
- Joshua Gilmore
- Jonathan Goler
- Laura Grabowski
- Dan Groff
- Adrian Grzybowski
- Andrew Hagen
- Meghdad Hajimorad
- Timothy Ham
- Devan Horn
- Jing Huang
- Niklas Hummel
- Matthew Incha
- William J. Holtz
- Johanne Jacobsen
- Sidharth Jayachandran
- Rene Jocic
- Kristala Jones Prather
- Chijioke Joshua
- Alex Juminaga
- Yisheng (Connie) Kang
- Salomeh Keyhani
- Afshan Kidwai
- Woncheol Kim
- Woojoo Eunice Kim
- Jeffrey Kizer
- Yan Kung
- Anna Lechner
- Guangxu Lan
- Sungkuk Lee
- Taek Soon Lee
- Rachel Li
- Zhirong Li
- Patrick Lichtner
- Daniel Liu
- Dong Liu
- Yuzhong Liu
- Xu Lu
- David Lubertozzi
- Bridget Luckie
- Xiaozhou (David) Luo
- Suzanne Ma
- Andy Magyarosy
- Radhakrishnan Mahadevan
- Michel Maharbiz
- Jessica Mahinthakumar
- Vayu Maini Rekdal
- Wes Marner
- Jessica Marshall
- Matthew Mattozzi
- Trina McMahon
- Aindrila Mukhopadhyay
- Alberto Nava
- Melissa Nhan
- Robert Nielsen
- Minobu Nishimoto
- Farnaz Nowroozi
- Bilge Ozaydin
- Sebastian Palluk
- Bo Pang
- Eric Paradise
- Venkata (Nihal) Pasumarthi
- Pamela Peralta-Yahya
- Chris Petzold
- Brian Pfleger
- Francesco Pingatore
- Douglas Pitera
- Sean Poust
- Joya Pramanik
- Alyssa Redding-Johanson
- David Reichmuth
- Neil Renninger
- Daekyun Ro
- Tristan de Rond
- Sarah Rodriguez
- Becky Rutherford
- Weerwat (Ricky) Rungaphan
- Matthias Schmidt
- Afshan Shaikh
- Minglong Shao
- Wenqing Shui
- Christina Smolke
- Eric Steen
- Yinjie Tang
- Sundiep Tehara
- Mitchell Thompson
- Gary Tong
- Piper Trelstad
- Luis Valencia
- Casper van der Luijt
- Stephen Van Dien
- Sandra Villa
- Andrew Walker
- Clifford Wang
- Kai Wang
- Zilong Wang
- Lane Weaver
- Christopher Whitford
- Sydnor Withers
- Jeff Wong
- Han Min Woo
- Nichole Wood
- Junjun Wu
- Xinkai Xie
- Suzan Yilmaz
- Jing Yin
- Yasuo Yoshikuni
- Satoshi Yuzawa
- Amin Zargar
- Chunjun Zhan
- Fuzhong Zhang
- Mei Zhao