Buz Barstow

Buz Barstow received his MSci in Physics from Imperial College, London where his research concentrated on quantum optics, plasma physics and table-top nuclear fusion. He received his Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Cornell University under the direction of Sol Gruner, where he demonstrated the direct correlation of protein structure and function using high-pressure X-ray crystallography. As a postdoctoral fellow in Pamela Silver’s laboratory at Harvard Medical School, he focused on the evolution of biological hydrogen production and the engineering of electroactive bacteria, and as a research fellow at Princeton Chemistry he developed the Knockout Sudoku technique for rapidly building whole genome knockout collections to characterize the genetics of biological capabilities for sustainable energy. As an assistant professor at Cornell, Buz is applying structural, systems and synthetic biology to the problems of energy and sustainability. Buz is a recipient of William Nichols Findley Award, NIH National Research Service Award, and Burroughs-Wellcome Career Award at the Scientific Interface and a finalist for the Gregorio Weber International Prize in Biological Fluorescence.