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.
Postdoctoral Researchers
Amin Zargar
Chenyi Li
Chunjun Zhan
“Dan” Qingyun Dan
Graham Hudson
Guangxu Lan
Jing Huang
Namil Lee
Peter Winegar
Robert Bertrand
Sarah Klass
Seokjung Cheong
Thomas Young
Vayu Maini Rekdal
Xixi Zhao
Yuzhong Liu
Zilong Wang
Graduate Students
Matthew Incha
Aidan Cowan
Alberto Nava
Allie Pearson
Bridget Luckie
Isaac Donnell
Jacob B. Roberts
Jessica Mahinthakumar
Kevin Yin
Leah Keiser
Lucas Waldburger
Luis Enrique Valencia
Maria Astolfi
Matthias Schmidt
Michael Belcher
Michael Cronce
Sam Crowe
Alumni
- Ilana Aldor
- Jorge Alonso-Gutierrez
- Jenn Anthony
- Dan Arlow
- Tyler Backman
- Constance Bailey
- Jesus Barajas
- Jacquelyn Blake-Hedges
- Peter Benke
- 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
- Ruthie Chow
- Victor Chubukov
- Stacie Cowan-Hecht
- Pablo Cruz-Morales
- Samuel Curran
- Bernardo Da Costa
- Brandon Curtis
- Rob Dahl
- Elias Englund
- Leo d’Espaux
- Jeffrey Dietrich
- John Dueber
- Christopher B. Eiben
- Natalya Eliashberg Crump
- 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
- Niklas Hummel
- 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
- Sungkuk Lee
- Rachel Li
- Zhirong Li
- Patrick Lichtner
- Daniel Liu
- Dong Liu
- Xu Lu
- David Lubertozzi
- Xiaozhou (David) Luo
- Suzanne Ma
- Andy Magyarosy
- Michel Maharbiz
- Wes Marner
- Jessica Marshall
- Matthew Mattozzi
- Trina McMahon
- 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
- Mitch Thompson
- Gary Tong
- Piper Trelstad
- Stephen Van Dien
- Sandra Villa
- Andrew Walker
- Clifford Wang
- Kai Wang
- Lane Weaver
- Sydnor Withers
- Jeff Wong
- Nichole Wood
- Junjun Wu
- Xinkai Xie
- Suzan Yilmaz
- Jing Yin
- Yasuo Yoshikuni
- Satoshi Yuzawa
- Fuzhong Zhang
- Mei Zhao