Adam L. Meadows, PhD, is a senior scientist in the Biology Dept. at Amyris, Inc. (Email: meadows@amyris.com). Since joining Amyris’s Computational Biology group in 2007, he has been involved in a variety of projects to model, analyze, and improve the performance of microbes that make small molecules at both the lab and industrial scales. Currently, he leads a project to significantly reduce the cost and time required to develop new strains for producing any target molecule of interest. Before joining Amyris, he was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Process Development Dept. at Genentech. He received his BS from Purdue Univ. and his PhD from the Univ. of California, Berkeley, both in chemical engineering.