报告专家：杨悦 博士 Amyris biotechnologies

报告题目： Amyris: From Biotechnology Startup to Successful Renewable Chemical Manufacturer

时间：2014年12月19日 星期五 上午10：00

地点：重点实验室楼八楼报告厅

专家简介：

Education

2001-2007 Ph.D., Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, the University of Michigan.

1997-2001 B.S. Biology, Fudan University, P.R.China.

Research Experience

Scientist | Amyris Biotechnologies | Sep 2011-present

Develop industrial strains for production of biofuel and fragrance products

Metabolic engineering to create Cerevisiae cerevisiae strains to produce biofuel and other products at commercial scale

Led protein engineering projects, and successfully increased the activities of bottleneck enzymes in the pathway.

Employed cutting-edge genome editing technologies to engineer yeast strains, greatly accelerating the development of the new fragrance product.

Championed the development of an automated enzyme evolution platform for Amyris, coordinated a cross-functional team: biology, automation, analytics and bioinformatics.

Other relevant experience

Personnel manager from 2012-now

Supported business development opportunities: generated quarterly technical reports for business partners, performed technical training for a business department intern, real-time translation for Amyris’ business team

Postdoctoral Research Associate | Michigan State University | 2007- 2011

Identification of a novel gene required for proper chloroplast distribution in plant cells; a process essential for maximizing photosynthetic efficiency.

Determine the DnaJ-like co-chaperon function of ARC6, and characterize its interaction with other proteins in the process of chloroplast division.

Graduate student | University of Michigan 2001-2007

Cloning and functional characterization of novel enzymes from methyltransferase and esterase gene families in Arabidopsis thaliana

Biochemical and functional characterization of enzymes involved in plant hormone modification and plant innate immunity.