Dr. Turner brings almost 20 years of industrial experience in genetic engineering and prokaryotic protein expression to Midwest Bioprocessing Center. He is a skilled molecular/synthetic biologist with broad experience in a wide variety of microorganisms (E. coli, B. subtilis, P. putida, A. baylyi, cyanobacteria, methylotrophs and yeasts). Notable successes have included the economical, scalable manufacture of performance chemicals and biofuel feedstock production, as well as the development of synthetic biology technologies. Dr. Turner has a successful track record of managing teams and executing internal and external projects in synthetic biology, biocatalysis, protein expression, and fermentation technologies. Dr. Turner did postdoctoral research with Professor Paul Schimmel at both MIT (Cambridge, MA) and The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, CA). He received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry in 1996 from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and his B.S. in Biochemistry in 1990 from Illinois Benedictine College in Lisle, IL.
