Adam Feist, a UC San Diego bioengineering alumnus (PhD) and
current Project Scientist, has been awarded the Jay
Bailey Young Investigator Award from the Society for Biological
Engineering. The journal Metabolic Engineering sponsored the 2018 award, and
they put together a nice story about Adam Feist and his work in the Systems Biology Research Group run
by UC San Diego bioengineering professor Bernhard Palsson.
One of the
things Feist works on, and
discusses in the article, is harnessing evolution as a tool.
“Dr. Feist supervises and leads the design, development
and implementation of over $1 million worth of equipment for adaptive
laboratory evolution studies. ‘The evolution platforms we have are actually
tangible things, machines working in the lab, doing different tasks,’ he said. ‘It’s
fascinating, instead of modeling, where we predict what we want to engineer, we
turn that on its head and ask the cells to figure it out themselves. It’s
eye-opening that the cells can do this.’”
Feist is also Senior Researcher and Group
Leader at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical
University of Denmark (DTU).
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