Dr. Jay Keasling

March 10, 2009 Nailing

 * microbiologist trying to find ways to burn energy
 * with the Joint Bio-Age (something, something)
 * sleeps under mylar blankets
 * engineer bacteria to make fuel
 * he is a mad scientist who plays God
 * stood over a boiling beaker saying "Those fools at the academy"


 * synthetic biology been around for 35 years

(God beat him)
 * turn sugar to ethanol


 * two microbes
 * turns pulp into sugar
 * takes sugar turns it into fuel (or drugs)


 * cheap anti-malaria drug
 * a hydrocarbon


 * injecting gas into third world babies


 * staphylococcus (or yeast) will fly planes
 * yeast infections will be good (not just a burning sensation)


 * will be done on a huge industrial scale (not in your backyard)


 * paper waste, plant waste, animal waste
 * cars that run on poop


 * microbial fuel