Sabrina Baffert

Sabrina Baffert is Senior Research Associate and Project Manager at Primordial Genetics and has been key in the implementation and development of Function Generator, the company’s core technology. As the first employee of Primordial Genetics, she has worked on various industrial biotechnology collaborations focusing on pharmaceutical, renewable fuels, and agricultural applications. Using the companies’ technology, over ten years of lab experience, and a track record of successful execution of R&D projects, Sabrina has isolated multiple genetic solutions in industrially relevant bacteria and yeast. She has a strong background in microbial genetics from her time at the Pathogen and Microbiome Institute in Flagstaff, AZ where Sabrina focused on mapping the genetic diversity of infectious pathogens isolated from clinical samples around the world. Her research on Pseudogymnoascus destructans, a pathogen that has decimated bat populations globally, was instrumental in isolation, characterization, and mapping the origin of disease. Sabrina's work at the institute as well as with Primordial Genetics has been presented at many conferences and was awarded for best presentation at the 2016 SynBioBeta conference in San Francisco. With her interest in infectious disease, she has traveled to Jamaica and Peru on global health and clinical medicine expeditions to better understand cultural approaches to health issues. Sabrina received her B.S. In Biomedical Science from Northern Arizona University in 2013 and is currently pursuing an MPH from UC Berkeley.