Director of Strain Engineering
Lygos
Rebecca has 16 years of industrial biotechnology experience focusing on the development of yeast and bacterial strains for a wide range of chemical products. She currently leads strain development activities at Lygos, with past experience at Zymergen and the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability (Technical University of Denmark). She has a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she worked on microbial fatty acid production. Rebecca's experience and interests span metabolic engineering, synthetic biology, systems biology, adaptive laboratory evolution, and the development of scaledown screens for prediction of fermentation performance.