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
Bo Pang
“Dan” Qingyun Dan
Elias Englund
Graham Hudson
Jing Huang
Robert Bertrand
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
Luis Enrique Valencia
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
- Gregory Bokinsky
- Douglas Bolesch
- Elizabeth Brunk
- Itay Budin
- Mike Cantor
- James Carothers
- Trent Carrier
- Rossana Chan
- Michelle Chang
- Howard Chou
- Rong 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
- 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
- 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
- Lane Weaver
- Sydnor Withers
- Jeff Wong
- Nichole Wood
- Xinkai Xie
- Suzan Yilmaz
- Jing Yin
- Yasuo Yoshikuni
- Satoshi Yuzawa
- Fuzhong Zhang