Primary Job Title Founder & CEO Primary Organization Rarebird
Location San Francisco, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male
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Jeffrey Dietrich received his BS in Bioengineering from Rice University in 2005 and his PhD in Bioengineering from UC-Berkeley in 2011; Jeffrey was awarded a Siebel Scholarship in 2010 for his dissertation research in Dr. Jay Keasling’s laboratory at the Joint BioEnergy Institute. He is inventor of a series of next-generation high-throughput
screening and selection technologies for improved microbial small-molecule biosynthesis. Jeffrey Co-Founded Lygos, Inc. in 2010 and is currently Chief Technology Officer. Lygos uses synthetic biology in combination with high-throughput screening approaches to engineer microbes for the production of chemicals. Lygos focuses on chemicals where biology has inherent cost advantages over petrochemical processes due to improved process yields, or elimination of hazardous waste streams.
