Floyd E. Romesberg | |
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Known for |
DNA Human genome Metagenomics Synthetic genomics |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Biochemist, Geneticist |
Institutions | Scripps Research |
Website | Romesberg Lab |
Floyd E. Romesberg is an American biotechnologist, biochemist, and geneticist formerly at Scripps Research in San Diego, California. [1] He is known for leading the team that created the first Unnatural Base Pair (UBP), thus expanding the genetic alphabet of four letters to six in 2012, [2] the first semi-synthetic organism in 2014, [3] [4] and the first functional semi-synthetic organism that can reproduce its genetic material in successive offspring, in 2017. [5] He left Scripps after a Title IX investigation.