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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

Anna Lisa Fear

Cameron Coates

Pablo Cruz-Morales

Robert Haushalter

Postdoctoral Researchers


Amin Zargar

Bo Pang

“Dan” Qingyun Dan

Elias Englund

Graham Hudson

Guangxu Lan

Jing Huang

Robert Bertrand

Sarah Klass

Seokjung Cheong

Vayu Maini Rekdal

Woojoo Eunice Kim

Yuzhong Liu

Zilong Wang

Graduate Students

Matthew Incha

Aidan Cowan

Alberto Nava

Bridget Luckie

Jessica Mahinthakumar

Kevin Yin

Leah Keiser

Luis Enrique Valencia

Matthias Schmidt

Michael Belcher

Michael Cronce

Sam Crowe

Visiting Scholars

Chunjun zhan   

Alumni

  • Ilana Aldor
  • Jorge Alonso-Gutierrez
  • Jenn Anthony
  • Dan Arlow
  • Tyler Backman
  • Constance Bailey
  • Jesus Barajas
  • Jacquelyn Blake-Hedges
  • Peter Benke
  • 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
  • Samuel Curran
  • Bernardo Da Costa
  • Brandon Curtis
  • Rob Dahl
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
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