Keasling, in Israel, looks to future of alternative energyBy Public Affairs, UC Berkeley | November 4, 2013 BERKELEY  Jay Keasling, a UC Berkeley professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering and of bioengineering and the chief executive officer of the Joint BioEnergy Institute, was in Israel last week to deliver a keynote address at an international conference on biofuels.
Keasling, right, and Professor Asaph Aharoni tour a lab at the Chaim Weizmann Institute of Science, a public graduate-studies-only research university focused on urgent challenges facing humanity. (Michelle Moskowitz photo)
One of the world’s foremost authorities on synthetic biology, Keasling is also the associate laboratory director for biosciences at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and the founding head of the synthetic biology department in LBNL’s physical biosciences division.
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