March 2020

Andy is the Strategy Manager at Ginkgo Bioworks, working on developing Ginkgo’s business model and understanding how it should grow next. Currently, he is extending Ginkgo's capabilities to work with start-ups that have biology embedded in their product or service. Prior to Ginkgo, Andy worked as a management consultant for Bain & Company and holds a degree in chemistry from Harvard College....Read more

Georg Jander received a B.S. in Computer Science from Washington University in St. Louis and a Ph.D. in Microbiology and Molecular Genetics from Harvard University. Subsequently, as a postdoc at Massachusetts General Hospital, he investigated the role of glucosinolates in Arabidopsis defense against caterpillar herbivory. He continued his research on Arabidopsis metabolism as a scientist at Cereon Genomics in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Since 2002, Jander has been a faculty member at the Boyce Thompson Institute in Ithaca, New York, with an adjunct appointment in the School of Integrative...Read more