tyoung@lbl.gov Education PhD in Physical Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles B.S. in Biochemistry, Chemistry, University of Washington Research I am engineering polyketide synthases to produce commodity chemicals. In particular, I am developing niche fuels containing poly-cyclopropane units. I am also interested in creating autotrophic microbial chassis that can produce such chemical products from carbon […]
Namil Lee
NamilLee@lbl.gov Education PhD in Bioengineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology M.S. in Bioengineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology B.S. in Biological Sciences, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Research My primary research goal is designing and engineering retrobiosynthesis machinery for novel compound production. Also, I’m interested in systematic approaches for […]
Tom myces, PhD
Specialist in biosynthesis PhD, Fancy university of the soil >28 000 Publications https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/search/all/?term=streptomyces Synthesized many drugs now in the market Loves to sporulate
Jing Huang
Postdoc JingHuang@lbl.gov Education PhD Biology, Tsinghua University BS Biotechnology, Beijing University of Chemical Technology Research My primary goal is to express and assemble engineered biocatalysts inside cells and use them to synthesize unnatural products. In addition, I am also interested in the development of transcriptional factor based biosensors.
Visiting Scholars
Jia Li Chunjun Zhan Mei Zhao Xiulai Chen Junjun Wu Beibei Ge Joann Gu Andrw Ly Xu Lu
Tyler W. H. Backman
Postdoctoral Fellow {first initial}{last name} at lbl.gov Education Ph.D. Bioengineering, University of California Riverside B.S. Physics, Oregon State University Research My research focuses on large-scale computational modeling of metabolism, and engineering polyketide synthases in silico for the production of useful small molecules. I am a joint postdoctoral fellow in both the Keasling Lab, and the […]