Christopher Zalewski Email & Phone Number

Seaside, CA, US

Castroville, California, United States

Front Range Biosciences (FRB) brings next generation agriculture science to the cannabis industry. Growers face huge challenges with operations as they scale: propagation, pest and pathogen management, strain backup, and breeding, to name a few. The tools of modern agriculture, developed over the last three decades, have solved these problems for crops.

Spearheaded the startup of a pathology testing division of a breeding and genomics support laboratory located next to the Salinas Valley. Successfully navigated the business through USDA/APHIS permitting, ISO 17025 and National Seed Health System (NSHS) accreditation in 4 months to start commercial operations. Developed price models, budgets, and a fiscal.

Fort Collins, Colorado Area

Summit Plant Laboratories, Inc. has been in the specialty micropropagation business since 1987, applying laboratory plant cloning and greenhouse technologies to produce clean planting stocks for breeders, greenhouses, and field crop producers. Summit is also accredited by the National Seed Health System for Bacterial Fruit Blotch testing, my position.

Fort Collins, Colorado Area

Used molecular biology and non-linear dynamics modeling to design and engineer an inducible gene circuit in sorghum and rice for biofuel applications. Designed and engineered multiple vectors that can switch on/off using external chemical inducers as signals - created hundreds of transgenic Arabidopsis lines as prototypes. Developed a novel transformation.

Fort Collins, Colorado Area

greenTYPE is a startup genomics company that develops molecular and genomic tools for the emerging hemp and cannabis industry using nextGen sequencing and bioinformatics.Awardee – Colorado State University College of Business Venture Accelerator Program.

San Francisco Bay Area

Characterized transcription factor dimerization critical for flower organ development in Arabidopsis using Bimolecular Florescence Complementation experiments. Self-taught particle bombardment techniques, screened and imaged over 100 bombardment events. Position was a temporary volunteer appointment to assist with data generation for publication while.

San Francisco Bay Area

Engineered a series of modular reporter constructs to validate muscle tissue-specific splicing events in zebrafish. Constructs characterized alternatively spliced molecular switches in muscle cell precursors.

San Francisco Bay Area

Characterized alternative splicing in erythroid development and cancer progression using RNA-SEQ profiling and protein assays using mouse, simian, and human cell line model systems. Successfully resuscitated a novel, multpotent cell line used to study splice switch patterns in red blood cells - demonstrated antisense morpholinos can block splicing events..

Sacramento, California Area

Thesis explored the phylogenetic and functional characterization of C4HDZ (Class 4 Homeodomain Leucine Zipper) genes as markers of early epidermal cell fate using Arabidiopsis thaliana and Physcomitrella patens model systems.Designed and created knockout vectors for Physcomitrella patens, Marchantia polymorpha, and Arabidopsis thaliana using artificial.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Used molecular markers in a high throughput process to assess the population diversity of a number of cat species with the objective of improving conservation efforts and reconstructing the evolutionary history of cats for comparative genomic projects. Edited and assisted with the preparation of scientific manuscripts for publication.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Represented the interests of BIO’s food and agriculture membership on the domestic and international front. Started as a paid intern, expanded and defined the position over three promotions in five years. Served as a liaison for meetings between industry membership, Congress, Administration, and international delegations on agricultural biotechnology.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Analyzed and proposed regulatory jurisdiction applicable to genetically engineered micro-organisms as mandated by the Toxic Substances and Control Act (TSCA). Assisted with the passage of the first product approved for commercial use under TSCA through review of the experimental release and commercial activity notifications.

Ph.D., Plant Biology - Genetics/Molecular Biology

Visiting Postgraduate Scholar - Melbourne, Australia

Mpa, Environmental Economics

Ba, Biology