Primary Job Title Chairman and Co-Founder Primary Organization MicroMGx Inc
Location Illinois, United States, North America Regions Great Lakes, Midwestern US Gender Male
William Metcalf is the current Chairman and Co-Founder of MicroMGx Inc. Bill Metcalf is the G. William Arends Professor in Molecular and Cellular Biology and Professor of Microbiology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses on the complex chemistry that bacteria perform, including the biogenesis of methane and
specialized natural products. Prof. Metcalf advises MicroMGx on the use of comparative genomics to identify the regions of the bacterial genome that are responsible for specialized metabolism, and on the use of advanced genome sequencing technologies.
