Welcoming Patrick Shih to PMB

September 02, 2021

Patrick Shih is one of seven new faculty members at Rausser College this year. The College looks forward to his contributions to our community—from groundbreaking research to excellence in teaching. Welcome to Rausser College!

Patrick Shih headshot
Shih specializes in synthetic biology, biochemistry, metabolic engineering, and evolutionary biology. Specifically, he develops approaches from synthetic biology to engineer plant systems for applications in agriculture, sustainability, human health, and bioenergy. He leverages genomics and molecular biology to investigate how the evolution of early microbial metabolisms like photosynthesis shaped the planet over geological time. After obtaining a PhD in Plant Biology from Berkeley, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Joint BioEnergy Institute. Previously, Shih was an assistant professor at UC Davis. This summer, he joined UC Berkeley as an assistant professor in Plant & Microbial Biology. He also holds appointments as the Director of Plant Biosystems Design at the Joint BioEnergy Institute and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

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