About
Dr. Patrick Shih is an Assistant Professor of Plant and Microbial Biology at UC Berkeley, the Director of Plant Biosystems Design at the Joint BioEnergy Institute, Faculty Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, and Assistant Director of Climate Innovation at the Innovative Genomics Institute. Dr. Shih’s passion for science, particularly Rubisco and synthetic biology, stems from his interest in developing synthetic biology approaches to enable complex engineering efforts in plant systems for applications in agriculture, sustainability, human health, and bioenergy. He is also interested in leveraging genomics and molecular biology to investigate how the evolution of early microbial metabolisms (e.g., photosynthesis) shaped our planet over geological timescales.
Dr. Shih earned his B.S. and B.A. from UC San Diego in 2008 and his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 2013. His educational background, combined with his extensive research experience, makes him uniquely qualified to conduct research projects in this field.
Dr. Shih’s contributions to the field have been recognized through various awards and honors including the Packard Fellowship, Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Director’s Award for Exceptional Early Scientific Career Achievement, Branco Weiss Fellowship, NIH K99 award, and Life Sciences Research Fellowship. His work on rubisco has been published in Nature Communications, Nature Plants, and PNAS, and Science Advances.
Joined
October 2023
