JAMES M. CLOMBURG

Dr. James Clomburg is a Research Scientist in the Department of Chemical, Biological, and Materials Engineering at the University of South Florida and a Principal Investigator in the laboratory for Metabolic Engineering and Biomanufacturing. His research focuses on understanding and engineering of metabolic pathways for the utilization of abundant and sustainable feedstocks as well as the development and optimization of biological platforms for the production of organic molecules with applications in fuel, chemical, and pharmaceutical production.
He has lead various research projects in these areas combining broad-based knowledge of metabolic pathways, biochemical reactions, and microbial metabolism to design and optimize biological platforms for the conversion of various carbon sources to novel compounds through the implementation of metabolic engineering and synthetic biology approaches. Dr. Clomburg has co-authored nineteen articles in leading scientific journals, including Nature, Nature Biotechnology, Metabolic Engineering, and ACS Synthetic Biology and is an inventor in over fifteen patents or patent applications.
He received his Ph.D. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from Rice University and B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.