Josh Michener

Josh Michener Education PhD, 2012, Bioengineering at Caltech S.B. 2006, Chemical Engineering and Biology at MIT Lab history Postdoc in the Marx Lab, Harvard Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Graduate student in the Smolke Lab, Caltech/Stanford Bioengineering. Co-advised by Frances Arnold (Caltech ChemE) and Jens Nielsen (Chalmers Systems Bio) UROP in the Endy Lab at MIT Contact Info Josh Michener Bioengineering - Smolke Lab Y2E2-B07, MC 4200 473 Via Ortega Stanford, CA 94305 Research My research focuses on the combination of rational and evolutionary methods to build, analyze, and optimize metabolic pathways. Publications Michener JK and Smolke CD. High-throughput enzyme evolution in Saccharomyces cerevisiae using a synthetic RNA switch. Metab Eng. 2012 Jul;14(4):306-16. [1] Michener JK, Thodey K, Liang JC, Smolke CD. Applications of genetically-encoded biosensors for the construction and control of biosynthetic pathways. Metab Eng. 2012 May;14(3):212-22. [2]