CasperVDL@lbl.gov Education PhD student at University of Copenhagen and Technical University of Denmark MSc in Life Science & Technology, Delft University of Technology BSc in Life Science & Technology, Leiden University and Delft University of Technology Research I’m working on recombinant protein production in filamentous fungi to develop sustainable microbial foods. My PhD project is […]
Christopher Whitford
CWhitford@lbl.gov Education Ph.D. student at Technical University of Denmark Bachelors and Masters in Molecular Biotechnology, Bielefeld University, Germany Research My research focuses on the development of CRISPR tools for streptomycetes with the goal of decreasing DTBL cycle times. In particular, I focus on multiplexed base editing, and novel genome engineering systems utilizing non-standard Cas effectors.
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
Alberto Nava
aanava@lbl.gov Education PhD student in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, UC Berkeley BS of Mathematics and Chemical Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno Research I’m interested in developing high-throughput computational and experimental techniques for the de novo design of enzymes.
Michael Belcher
Education: BS in Botany with a focus in genetics and molecular biology and Summa Cum Laude honors; Oregon State University Background & Research Interests I am a graduate student in the Plant and Microbial Biology Department at UC Berkeley, pursuing my PhD in Plant Biology. My main interests are in the field of synthetic biology, and […]
Visiting Scholars
Christopher Whitford
Amin Zargar
Postdoc azargar@berkeley.edu Education PhD Bioengineering, University of Maryland College Park MS Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Maryland College Park BS Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology Research Amin is a chemical and biomedical engineer working as a postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley for Dr. Jay Keasling. First introduced to research as an […]
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 […]