Sarah Richardson

Dr. Richardson is a Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow in the Physical Biosciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, working at the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) on massive scale synthetic biology projects in biogeochemistry and bioremediation. Sarah has developed state of the art tools for the rapid, automated design of multikilobase synthetic genes and the automated design of assemblable, modular, synthetic chromosomes. Sarah is the recipient of the Turock Award for Promising Young Scientists and the Jupur Dinesh Thekdi Award from Johns Hopkins University. Sara holds a Ph.D. in Human Genetics from the Johns Hopkins University.