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Richard Sayre's Laboratory |
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Dr. Richard
Sayre
Director, Enterprise Rent A Car Institute
For Renewable Fuels
Director, BioCassava Plus
Director, Center for Advanced Biofuel
Systems
Donald Danforth Plant
Science Center
975 N. Warson Rd.
St. Louis, MO 63132, USA
Phone: 1-314-587-1437
Cell: 1-614-313-8166
Fax: 1-314-587-1537
rsayre@danforthcenter.org
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Dr. Richard Sayre is
the Director of the Enterprise Rent-A-Car
Institute for Renewable Fuels at the Donald
Danforth Plant Science Center. Sayre, a
prominent scientist in the field of
renewable fuels leads a team of 10
researchers who focus on using algae to
produce "third-generation" biofuels that
someday could be used to power cars, trucks,
and aircraft. This work complements the
larger body of biofuels research currently
underway at the Danforth Center.
In addition, Sayre also serves as the
Director of the BioCassava Plus program at
the Danforth Center, a multi-national
development program funded by the Bill and
Melinda Gates Foundation. The objective of
the BioCassava Plus Program is to
genetically engineer cassava for enhanced
nutrition of sub-Saharan Africans. Cassava
is a staple crop eaten by more than 700
million people living in the developing
world.
Sayre was the co-founder and past president
of Phycotransgenics LLC and is currently the
Chief Technology Officer for Phycal LLC, a
start-up biotechnology company developing
microalgal-based carbon capture and biofuel
production systems. Sayre was formerly Chair
of the Department of Plant Cellular and
Molecular Biology at the Ohio State
University.
Sayre has served on the editorial boards of
Plant Molecular Biology and Photosynthesis
Research and is the author of more than 80
articles on a diverse range of the
biological science topics. He has also
served on various national committees of the
American Society of Plant Biologists and is
an honorary member of Phi Beta Kappa. During
the spring of 2007 Sayre was a Fulbright
Scholar at the University of Sao Paulo,
Brazil in the Department of Chemistry and
Biochemistry working on Microalgal
biotechnology. Sayre received his PhD from
the University of Iowa and did post-doctoral
work at Harvard University. |
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