Chris Brown, PhD
Chris applies his expertise in metagenomics and his experience working with diverse microbial communities for the development of our proprietary discovery engine.
VP of Discovery
He conducted postdoctoral research at UC Berkeley in the lab of Professor Jamie Cate, Ph.D. with support from the Agouron Institute as a Life Sciences Research Foundation fellow, where he discovered and characterized novel catalytic RNAs from uncultivated microbes.
Chris earned a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology from the University of Florida, and a Ph.D. in Plant and Microbial Biology at UC Berkeley while working with Professor Jill Banfield, Ph.D.