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Jay D. Keasling Jay D. Keasling
Dept of Bioengineering
Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
chemical engineering, biochemical engineering, metabolic engineering of microorganisms, environmentally friendly synthesis, biodegradable and recyclable polymers, production of biofuels and bioproducts, natural products
Douglas Clark Douglas Clark
Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
chemical engineering, biochemical engineering, extremozymes, bioactive materials, bioprocess engineering, biofuels and bioenergy, biocatalysis
John Dueber, smiling, in lab John Dueber
Dept of Bioengineering
synthetic biology, Metabolic Engineering
Wenjun Zhang Wenjun Zhang
Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
Dept of Chemistry
chemical biology, microbiology, natural product biosynthesis, enzyme discovery and characterization, drug discovery, human microbiome, specialized metabolism
Headshot of Leah Guthrie in outside setting Leah Guthrie
Dept of Bioengineering
microbial metabolism
headshot of Shiyu Xia smiling Shiyu Xia
Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
John Coates in lab with equipment in background John D. Coates
Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology
precision fermentation, Bioprocess scale-up, environmental microbiology, Industrial bioprocesses, sustainability, carbon sequestration, Bioremediation, alternative energy production, biogeochemistry
Headshot of Anastasios Melis Anastasios Melis
Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology
photosynthesis, Metabolic Engineering, synthetic biology, bioproduction R&D
David Savage David Savage
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology
biochemistry, metabolism, photosynthetic systems, Systems and Synthetic Biology, protein engineering
Margaux Pinney in lab setting Margaux Pinney
Dept of Chemistry
chemical biology, high-throughput biochemistry, microfluidics, evolutionary biochemistry, enzyme functional prediction/engineering/design
Photo of Sanjay Kumar Sanjay Kumar
Dept of Bioengineering
Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
biomaterials, molecular and cellular bioengineering, stem cells, cancer biology, translational medicine
Robert Full Robert J. Full
Dept of Integrative Biology
energetics, comparative biomechanics, arthropod, adhesion, comparative physiology, locomotion, neuromechanics, biomimicry, biological inspiration, reptile, gecko, amphibian, robots, artificial muscles
Patrick Hsu in the lab Patrick Hsu
Dept of Bioengineering
generative biology, language models, virtual cell models, genome mining and editing, synthetic biology, AI agents for science
Xavier Darzacq Xavier Darzacq
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology
transcription regulation during cellular differentiation, gene expression control mechanism, biophysical rules of nuclear organization
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