{"id":350,"date":"2018-08-30T21:18:46","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T04:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.magicalrobot.org\/BeingHuman\/?p=350"},"modified":"2018-08-30T21:24:45","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T04:24:45","slug":"new-job-director-of-advanced-technologies-zymergen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.magicalrobot.org\/BeingHuman\/2018\/08\/new-job-director-of-advanced-technologies-zymergen","title":{"rendered":"New Job: Director of Advanced Technologies, Zymergen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a quick note to say that back in May 2017 I left my lab at NASA and took a new job as the Director of Advanced Technology at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zymergen.com\/\">Zymergen<\/a>.  This is an amazing company that is pushing the boundaries of science &#8212; We are a molecular technologies company, and we engineer the DNA of microbes to turn them into cell-factories.  These engineered microbes can then be fermented in giant tanks to economically produce bio-molecules which are enabling new advanced materials and products for the world, and are shifting our economy to a more sustainable bio-based industrial base.  And, as you can imagine, there are so many fields of science and technology intersecting here that I&#8217;m in my happy zone of constant learning and innovation.  <\/p>\n<p>Here is everything you need to know about Zymergen in 3.8 minutes:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wzntkRusWMo\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You can also read more about what we do on our <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@ZymergenTechBlog\">Technology Blog<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@zymergen\">Company Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Due to our resounding successes with our clients, we are rapidly scaling and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zymergen.com\/careers\/\">constantly hiring.<\/a> Come join our team!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll post more eventually, but currently I&#8217;m heads down on many exciting projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a quick note to say that back in May 2017 I left my lab at NASA and took a new job as the Director of Advanced Technology at Zymergen. This is an amazing company that is pushing the boundaries of science &#8212; We are a molecular technologies company, and we engineer the DNA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[146],"tags":[152,26,150,147,153,148,154,149,47,151],"class_list":["post-350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-zymergen","tag-advanced-technology","tag-ai","tag-biotech","tag-dna","tag-fermentation","tag-genetic-engineering","tag-materials","tag-molecules","tag-robots","tag-synthetic-biology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pShAo-5E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magicalrobot.org\/BeingHuman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magicalrobot.org\/BeingHuman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magicalrobot.org\/BeingHuman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magicalrobot.org\/BeingHuman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magicalrobot.org\/BeingHuman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.magicalrobot.org\/BeingHuman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magicalrobot.org\/BeingHuman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magicalrobot.org\/BeingHuman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magicalrobot.org\/BeingHuman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}