Principal Investigator
Jay Keasling
Professor, Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
Professor, Department of Bioengineering
The Hubbard Howe Jr. Distinguished Professor of Biochemical Engineering
CSTO for Biosciences and 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.
Scientists & Postdocs
Amin Zargar
Bo Pang
Constance Bailey
Itay Budin
Jesus F. Barajas
Pablo Cruz Morales
Satoshi Yuzawa
Tyler W. H. Backman
Xiaozhou (David) Luo
Graduate Students
Christopher B Eiben
Dan Arlow
Jacquelyn Blake-Hedges
Mitchell Thompson
Rachel Li
Samuel Curran
Visiting Scholars
- Micheal Reiter
- Sebastian Barthel
- Sebastian Palluk
- Patrick Lichtner
Alumni
- Ilana Aldor
- Jorge Alonso-Gutierrez
- Jenn Anthony
- Peter Benke
- Gregory Bokinsky
- Douglas Bolesch
- Elizabeth Brunk
- Mike Cantor
- James Carothers
- Trent Carrier
- Rossana Chan
- Michelle Chang
- Howard Chou
- Ruthie Chow
- Victor Chubukov
- Stacie Cowan-Hecht
- Bernardo Da Costa
- Brandon Curtis
- Rob Dahl
- Leo d’Espaux
- Jeffrey Dietrich
- John Dueber
- Natalya Eliashberg Crump
- Veronica Fok
- Lisa Fontaine-Bodin
- Jee Loon Foo
- Jeffrey Fortman
- Matthew Garcia
- David Garcia
- Joshua Gilmore
- Jonathan Goler
- Dan Groff
- Andrew Hagen
- Meghdad Hajimorad
- Timothy Ham
- William J. Holtz
- Johanne Jacobsen
- Rene Jocic
- Kristala Jones Prather
- Chijioke Joshua
- Alex Juminaga
- Yisheng (Connie) Kang
- Salomeh Keyhani
- Afshan Kidwai
- Woncheol Kim
- Jeffrey Kizer
- Yan Kung
- Anna Lechner
- Sungkuk Lee
- Zhirong Li
- Daniel Liu
- David Lubertozzi
- Suzanne Ma
- Andy Magyarosy
- Michel Maharbiz
- Wes Marner
- Jessica Marshall
- Matthew Mattozzi
- Trina McMahon
- Melissa Nhan
- Robert Nielsen
- Minobu Nishimoto
- Farnaz Nowroozi
- Bilge Ozaydin
- 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
- Wenqing Shui
- Christina Smolke
- Eric Steen
- Yinjie Tang
- Sundiep Tehara
- Gary Tong
- Piper Trelstad
- Stephen Van Dien
- Sandra Villa
- Andrew Walker
- Clifford Wang
- Lane Weaver
- Sydnor Withers
- Jeff Wong
- Nichole Wood
- Xinkai Xie
- Suzan Yilmaz
- Yasuo Yoshikuni
- Fuzhong Zhang