and Biological Systems and Engineering Division
Lawrence Berkeley National lab.,
Berkeley, CA.
Dr. Mutalik is a research scientist at Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Division, Functional genomics Department, and Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Dr. Mutalik works in the area of synthetic biology and functional genomics of diverse microbes and phages. He has in-depth expertise in engineering genetic parts and tools for regulating gene expression in non-model organisms. Dr. Mutalik has been developing high-throughout technologies to discover host factors important in phage infection and resistance, and methods to formulate rationally designed cocktails of phages and phage-antibiotic combinations. Dr. Mutalik is currently working towards establishing Berkeley Phage Factory, a unified facility for engineering phages and phage-like particles for diverse applications within Innovative Genomics Institute, Berkeley.
Previously, Dr. Mutalik lead the BIOFAB project, the world's first biological design-build facility in Emeryville, CA, spearheaded by Profs Drew Endy, Adam Arkin and Jay Keasling. Dr. Mutalik received his PhD in Chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India and was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Prof Carol Gross at University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Mutalik has three years of experience in the Biotechnology Industry in handling more than hundred kiloliter industrial fermentation unit, bulk drug manufacturing and resource management.