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SBE Supplement: Commercializing Industrial Biotechnology - Meet the Authors

SBE Special Section
June
2016

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KIRSTEN R. BENJAMIN, PhD, is a Senior Research Fellow in R&D Program Operations at Amyris, Inc. (Email: info@amyris.com), where she engineered improved microbial strains for the semi-synthetic Artemisinin and Biofene projects, and directed the Biofene strain improvement project for three years. She has nine years of experience in industrial biotechnology, with expertise in microbial strain improvement, including synthetic biology, metabolic engineering, and multidimensional strain characterization. Prior to Amyris, she was a research fellow in systems biology at the Molecular Sciences Institute and a postdoctoral fellow in genetics at the Univ. of California, San Francisco. She earned a BS with honors, double-majoring in philosophy and molecular and cellular biology, from the Univ. of Michigan, and a PhD in biochemistry from the Univ. of California, Berkeley. She is a member of SBE and the International Metabolic Engineering Society (IMES).

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JOEL R. CHERRY, PhD, is President of R&D at Amyris, Inc. (Email: info@amyris.com), where he oversees the development of microorganisms that efficiently convert plant-derived feedstocks to chemicals for use in pharmaceuticals, fuels, fragrances, and consumer goods. He has more than 24 years of experience in industrial biotechnology, with a track record of bringing biotech products to market. During a 16-year tenure at Novozymes, he served as Director of Bioenergy Biotechnology and was a member of the R&D executive management team, specializing in protein engineering and directed evolution. As Principal Investigator of the BioEnergy Project, a U.S. Dept. of Energy-funded $30-million effort, he led a cross-functional, international team of over 100 scientists to reduce the cost of cellulases for ligno-cellulosic biomass. He has more than 30 published scientific papers and is an inventor on...

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