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Patrick Shih, Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley, presents “Redesigning plants with synthetic biology: from carbon fixation to natural products”.
Patrick Shih is an Assistant Professor of Plant and Microbial Biology at UC Berkeley and Investigator at the Innovative Genomics Institute. He also serves as the Director of Plant Biosystems and Deputy VP of the Feedstocks Division at the Joint BioEnergy Institute, which is part of Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. He has a B.S. in Microbiology and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of California, San Diego. He received his Ph.D. in Plant Biology from University of California, Berkeley and did his postdoc at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and Stanford University. His lab focuses on engineering plants and microbes for biotechnological applications in agriculture, human health, sustainability, and bioenergy.
Host: Dr. Savithramma Dinesh-Kumar (spdineshkumar@ucdavis.edu)