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
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Robert Haushalter
Postdoctoral Researchers
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Chenyi Li
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“Dan” Qingyun Dan
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Graham Hudson
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Matthias Schmidt
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Namil Lee
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Ning Qin
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Ofer Prinz Setter
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Peter Winegar
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Sarah Klass
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Soonkyu Hwang
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Thomas Young
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Vayu Maini Rekdal
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Xixi Zhao
Graduate Students
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Aidan Cowan
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Allie Pearson
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BJ Cawthon
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Ezechinyere Ukabiala
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Isaac Donnell
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Jacob B. Roberts
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Justin Baerwald
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Kevin Yin
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Leah Keiser
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Lucas Waldburger
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Maria Astolfi
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Michael Cronce
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Nathan Lanclos
Visiting Scholars
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Devan Horn
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
- 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
- Jing Huang
- Niklas Hummel
- Matthew Incha
- William J. Holtz
- Johanne Jacobsen
- 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
- 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
- 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