Research Interests

• Harnessing biology to address diverse critical global challenges in the areas of renewable biomanufacturing, human health, and bioenergy.
• Engineering microbes to produce drugs, chemicals, and fuels.
• Developing foundational tools for engineering metabolism inside cells.
• Creating novel metabolic pathways to produce unnatural molecules.
• Designing robust microbial hosts for producing chemicals under a variety of industrial conditions.
• Applying these methods and tools to important societal problems, such as producing the antimalarial drug artemisinin, a variety of commodity and specialty chemicals, and biofuels.

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