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Investigators in Biomass
Gregory Asner Email | Bio | Lab
Department Affiliation: Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institute of Washington
Secondary Affiliation: Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University
GCEP Project: The Climate-Protective Domain

Christopher Field Email | Bio | Lab
Department Affiliation: Biological Sciences, Stanford University
Secondary Affiliation: Carnegie Institution of Washington's Department of Global Ecology, Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, and Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University
Area of Study: Feasibility study to assess biological, ecological, and economic limits to biofuels production
GCEP Projects: The Climate-Protective Domain
Technology Potential of Biofuels: Feasibility Assessment

Chaitan Khosla Email | Bio | Lab
Department Affiliation: Chemical Engineering, Stanford University
Secondary Affiliation: Chemistry, Stanford University
Area of Study: Natural Product Biosynthesis, Biomedicine, Protein Engineering, Metabolism
GCEP Project: Microbial Synthesis of Biodiesel

Rosamond Lee Naylor Email | Bio
Department Affiliation: Julie Wrigley Senior Fellow in Environmental Science and Policy, Stanford University
GCEP Projects: The Climate-Protective Domain
Technology Potential of Biofuels: Feasibility Assessment

Frank Rosenzweig Email | Bio
Department Affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, University of Montana
Area of Study: Ecology and Evolution of Microbes including Yeast: Genetics and Metabolism
GCEP Project: Directed Evolution of Novel Yeast Species

Gavin Sherlock Email | Bio
Department Affiliation: Genetics, Stanford University
Area of Study: Yeast Evolution, Five Carbon Sugar Metabolism, Microarrays, Genomics, Bioinformatics
GCEP Project: Directed Evolution of Novel Yeast Species

Christopher Somerville Email | Bio | Lab
Department Affiliation: Biological Sciences, Stanford University
Secondary Affiliation: Carnegie Institution
Area of Study: Genetic Engineering of Biomass Polysaccharide Composition
GCEP Project: Genetic Engineering of Cellulose Accumulation