Zach Serber, Co-founder and CSO of Zymergen, talked about how technology is being applied to unlock the power of biology to make sustainable products with inherently better properties to serve a wide range of industries and applications. Zach is devoted to finding alternatives to petroleum. He co-founded Zymergen to expand the impact and reach of industrial microbial fermentation. Zymergen applies radical new methods to design and improve microbes by rewriting their DNA. This capability allows the company to generate novel chemicals and advanced materials far faster, at lower costs, and with less risk than ever before. Zach was previously the Director of Biology at Amyris where he worked on manufacturing bio-derived transportation fuels, on lowering the cost of the anti-malarial drug Artemisinin, and on developing advanced tools for engineering biology.
