Jay Keasling

Jay Keasling is a Professor and Scientific Director at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark. His research focuses on metabolic engineering, synthetic biology, and microbial production of natural products.

• Primary Affiliation: Technical University of Denmark
• Research Lab: Yeast Natural Products group
• Email: JDKeasling@lbl.gov

Keasling's expertise spans engineering metabolic pathways in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Escherichia coli for bio-based chemical production. Recent work includes optimizing polyketide synthases, enhancing transformation efficiency, and developing biosensors for high-throughput screening.

His publications demonstrate trends in microbial engineering for sustainable chemical synthesis, with subfields including: metabolic flux analysis, plasmid copy number optimization, fatty acid derivatives, and glycosylation pathway engineering.

As a PhD supervisor, Keasling has guided students including Jayachandran S., Gadar Lopez A. E., and Lengger B. His lab is part of DTU's broader biosustainability initiative.