Jay Keasling
Jay D. Keasling is a professor of chemical engineering and bioengineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also associate laboratory director for biosciences at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and chief executive officer of the Joint BioEnergy Institute. He is considered one of the foremost authorities in synthetic biology, especially in the field of metabolic engineering.
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Dr. Jay D. Keasling speaking at PopTech Energy Salon 2011 in New York City | |
| Alma mater | University of Nebraska-Lincoln University of Michigan |
| Known for | metabolic engineering |
| Awards | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation grant, Heinz Award in Technology, the Economy & Employment |
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| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, University of Michigan |
| Thesis | Dynamics and control of bacterial plasmid replication (1991) |
| Doctoral advisor | Bernhard Palsson |
| Doctoral students | Kristala Jones Prather |
| Other notable students | Michelle C. Chang |
| Website | keaslinglab |
Keasling was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2010 for developing synthetic biology tools to engineer the antimalarial drug artemisinin.
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