Randall De Groot Email & Phone Number

California, United States

Responsible for building fermentation lab and executing bioreactor experiments at the following scales: 5L glass benchtop, 20L steel pilot.Executed experiments targeting fermentation process improvement, strain promoter screening, and protein screening.Maintained CRO relationships.Designed fermentation data ingestion software in benchling.Supported DSP.

Berkeley, California, United States

Responsible for executing bioreactor experiments targeting process improvements, and genetic improvement identification.Process onboarding for new anaerobic fermentation process.Key experiments include: feed media optimization, overlay screening, and feed rate optimization.Bioreactor Equipment Experience: AMBR 250, Sartorius 1L Biostat

Emeryville, California, United States

Designed and executed experiments to improve fermentation processes and identify genetic improvements in yeast strainsAnalyzed amino acid profiles from fermentation experiments with multiple process versions and strains and characterized fermentation data sets with JMPDeveloped and performed experiments in the areas of seed train development, dry cell.

Manuscript co-author for modeling of enzymatic proteins used to convert biomass to ethanolWorked extensively with DNA cloning and DNA protein expressionLearned and mastered lab techniques: PCR, western blot, protein purification, activity ELISARan experiments to identify potential proteins in an enzyme complex