Dr. Carrie Eckert

Carrie Eckert Ph.D. is the Synthetic Biology group leader at ORNL. She had previous appointments at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and the University of Colorado, Boulder, under the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute (RASEI). Her research is focused on developing tools to enable and accelerate the genetic manipulation and metabolic engineering of a number of eukaryotic and prokaryotic systems. Specifically, she is most interested in the development of high-throughput, CRISPR-based methods for genotype-phenotype discovery for applications in metabolic engineering.