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Team:Wisconsin-Madison/advisors
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Professors
Brian Pfleger
Wes Marner
Wesley D. Marner II is an Assistant Scientist and co-director of the Microbial Synthetic Biology Lab within the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Marner earned a B.S. in chemical engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and later received a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. His thesis work, under the direction of Jay Keasling and Susan Muller, focused on biological production of artificial protein- and silica-based biomaterials. At the GLBRC, Marner’s group focuses on improving the efficiency and productivity of biofuel processes at both the cellular and the bioreactor scale. Using the tools of synthetic biology, metabolic engineering, and advanced fermentation, his group and collaborators are engineering microbes for the efficient breakdown of biomass and subsequent conversion into fuel.
