Lectures Global Health & Energy Chris Somerville Biography
Biography
His current research is focused on the characterization of proteins, such as cellulose synthase, implicated in plant cell wall synthesis and modification. He has served as a member of the scientific advisory boards of numerous academic institutions, corporations, and private foundations in Europe and North America. He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences, The Royal Society of London and the Royal Society of Canada and has received numerous scientific awards. http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/faculty/Chris_Somerville |
Chris Somerville is the Director of the Carnegie Institution Department of Plant Biology and a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Stanford University. He also chairs the executive committee of the new Energy Biosciences Institute at UC Berkeley, University of Illinois and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He has published more than 200 scientific papers and patents in plant and microbial genetics, genomics, biochemistry, and biotechnology.