Jay Keasling, a chemical engineer at the University of California, Berkeley, is one of several investigators trying to make ethanol and related fuels from plants such as switchgrass, which grows quickly and resists many pests and diseases. (scientificamerican.com)
Today there are 10 other structural biology labs spread across Toronto, all members of the SBGrid Consortium, with several investigators using NMR and electron microscopy to determine protein structures. (sbgrid.org)
In particular, chemist James Snyder has been a key driver in designing and synthesizing curcumin - related compounds used by several investigators at Emory and elsewhere (see figure): (emoryhealthsciblog.com)