Title
Assistant Professor

Department
Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology


Faculty URL
https://plantandmicrobiology.berkeley.edu/users/patrick-shih

Research Group
https://nature.berkeley.edu/shih-lab/

Email
pmshih@berkeley.edu


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Research Expertise and Interest
synthetic biology, plant biology, microbiology, evolutionary biology

Research Description
Patrick Shih is an assistant professor in the Department of Plant & Microbial Biology.? His research is?focused?on two major areas of research: 1) developing synthetic biology approaches to enable complex engineering efforts in plant systems for applications in agriculture, sustainability, human health, and bioenergy and 2) leveraging genomics and molecular biology to investigate?how the evolution of early microbial metabolisms (e.g., photosynthesis) shaped our planet over geological timescales.