User:GMcArthurIV

http://www.che.virginia.edu/images/index_banner.gif Everything that living things do can be understood in terms of the jigglings and wigglings of atoms. –Richard P. Feynman

George McArthur IV

George McArthur is the founder of the Virginia Genetically Engineered Machine (VGEM) Team, an undergraduate synthetic biology research group at the University of Virginia.

• George's email

Research Interests

If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water. –Loren Eisley

I use a synthetic biology approach to the metabolic engineering of marine microorganisms for the production of specialty chemicals, biofuels and biopharmaceuticals.

Education

All of the effects of Nature are only the mathematical consequences of a small number of immutable laws. –Pierre Simon de LaPlace

Virginia Commonwealth University

• Ph.D. Chemical and Life Science Engineering

University of Virginia (2008)

• B.S. Chemical Engineering
  • Concentration in Biotechnology
• B.A. Music
  • Focus in Composition
• Minor in Biology
• Undergraduate Thesis Portfolio
  • The Development of a First Course in the Fundamentals of Synthetic Biology at the University of Virginia
    • Biological Systems Design was offered in Spring 2008!
  • The VGEM Team: A Model for Enhancing Engineering Education
  • A Regulatory Framework for the Constructive Development of Synthetic Biology

Interesting Literature

1. Light-driven hydrogen production by a hybrid complex of a [NiFe]-hydrogenase and the cyanobacteria photosystem I
2. Biohydrogen
3. Mutant Algae Is Hydrogen Factory

Links

• Gossamer Fidelity (the band)
• Sorcerer II Expedition
• Synthetic Genomics (the company)
• Molecular Marine Biology Laboratory
• Marine Biotech
• Institute of Biological Engineering
• homestarrunner.com