Biocatalytic Approaches to New Chemistry
Michelle C. Chang, ’04
A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Chemistry
Princeton University
Friday, October 11, 2024
3:00 p.m. in Room 66-110 (2:30 p.m. Reception)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract
Living systems have evolved the capacity to carry out many chemical transformations of interest to synthetic chemistry if they could be redesigned for targeted purposes. Our group is interested in using synthetic biology as a platform to study how enzymes function in vivo and to use this understanding to build new synthetic pathways for the production of pharmaceuticals, materials, fuels, and other chemicals using living cells.
Bio
Michelle Chang is the A. Barton Hepburn professor in the Department of Chemistry at Princeton University. She received her Ph.D. from MIT, and her postdoctoral training at UC Berkeley. She started her independent career in 2007 at UC Berkeley and moved to Princeton University this summer.