Chris Wilson Email & Phone Number

San Diego, California, United States

The Nucleic acids On-demand Worldwide (NOW) program aims to develop a mobile medical countermeasure (MCM) manufacturing platform for use in stabilization and humanitarian operations to rapidly produce, formulate, and package hundreds of doses of nucleic acid therapeutics (DNA and/or RNA). These on-demand MCMs can also better prepare our deployed.

San Diego County, California, United States

La Jolla, CA

Created various libraries for protein engineeringScreened enzymes for desirable traits

La Jolla, CA

Synthetic Genomics is a synthetic biology company specializing in the synthesis and manipulation of large DNA constructs and in improving gene synthesis and DNA assembly technology.

La Jolla, CA

Helped launch VMAX Express

La Jolla, California

• SGI-DNA is a services company primarily focused on providing custom gene synthesis and molecular biology reagents which rely on Gibson assembly. This position is a mixture of troubleshooting and designing cloning.
• Designed a cloning strategy to produce difficult DNA sequences, including constructs with repetitive sequence and 100% GC sequence, to aid in customer drug discovery.
• Designed cloning strategies for the production team and helped troubleshoot difficult sequences to overcome obstacles during production.
• Responsible to project tracking for 2 additional employees to keep orders on track.

San Diego, California

• Genomatica is a renewable chemicals company that engineers metabolic pathways of microbial organisms to produce chemicals with greater environmental sustainability than petroleum based processes. Responsible for.
• Cloned and optimized expression of key pathway genes using current ligase independent methods resulting in higher chemical titers and lower protein burden.
• Developed and optimized a protocol for creating error prone libraries which resulted in faster enzymes.
• Tested methods for error prone library enrichment to decrease “dead” enzymes during screening.
• Created a protocol for creating combinatorial libraries to avoid PCR based IP conflicts.

Carlsbad, California

Greater San Diego Area

Designed and prepared mammalian expression plasmids for targeted genes.Profiled expression levels of neuronal genes by qPCR.Validated a panel of antibodies useful for IHC in both sectioned tissues and established cell lines.Animal dissection and cell culture of neuronal cell types.

Master'S Degree, Biochemistry

Activities and Societies: 2001 – 2004: President’s Merit Scholarship. Studied cotton cellulose synthase A1 topology as a first effort at.

Bachelor'S Degree, Biochemistry