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Jay D. Keasling

Chief Executive Officer, Joint BioEnergy Institute
Senior Faculty Scientist

Biological Systems and Engineering

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Building: 978, Room 4122
Mail Stop: 978-4121
Phone: (510) 495-2620
Fax: (510) 495-2630
JDKeasling@lbl.gov
http://keaslinglab.lbl.gov

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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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Tiny Microbes Could Brew Big Benefits for Green Biomanufacturing

May 9, 2023

A research team led by Jay Keasling, Senior Faculty Scientist in the Biological Systems and Engineering and CEO of the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), has engineered bacteria to produce new-to-nature carbon products that could provide a powerful route to sustainable biochemicals.

DOE Renews Funding for Joint BioEnergy Institute

March 19, 2023

The Department of Energy’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), was selected as one of four Department of Energy (DOE) Bioenergy Research Centers (BRC) to be awarded a combined total of $590 million to support innovative research on biofuels and bioproducts.

Adams and Keasling Receive DOE Secretary’s Honor Award

January 28, 2023

In a virtual ceremony on January 24, Associate Laboratory Director for Biosciences Paul Adams and Jay Keasling, Biological Systems and Engineering senior faculty scientist, were among several Lab staff who received the Department of Energy’s (DOE) highest form of employee recognition for excellence and achievements.

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