Adam Arkin

Biography

Dr. Arkin is Director of the Berkeley Synthetic Biology Institute and is the Dean A. Richard Newton Memorial Professor in UC Berkeley’s Department of Bioengineering. He is also the scientific lead of two large Department of Energy projects: ENIGMA which seeks to discover, characterize and harness and microbial communities that impact the fate of contaminants in soil and water; and the Systems Biology Knowledgebase a collaborative, open environment for systems and synthetic biology of plants, microbes and their communities. His research centers on uncovering the evolutionary design principles of cellular networks and populations and exploiting them for applications in health, the environment, and bioenergy. He is the recipient of the 2013 Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award, the Department of Energy (DOE)’s highest scientific honor. He was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology in 2007, and has been profiled in Time Magazine as a “future innovator". A member of the University of California at Berkeley faculty since 1999, he earned his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Research Interest

biotechnology