Research Scientist
Stanford University
Weston Whitaker received his B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Columbia University. He received his Ph.D. in Bioengineering from University of California, Berkeley studying synthetic biology in the labs of Dr. Adam Arkin and Dr. John Dueber. He completed his post-doctoral fellowship in Justin Sonnenburg’s lab at Stanford University, where he developed genetic tools for Bacteroides, the most common gut bacteria genus.