Christopher M. Dundas
Postdoctoral Scholar, Biology
Bachelor of Science, S.U.N.Y. State University at Buffalo, Chemical Engineering (2015)
Doctor of Philosophy, University of Texas Austin (2020)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University, Biology (2021)
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Texas at Austin, Chemical Engineering (2020)
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, Chemical Engineering (2020)
B.S., University at Buffalo, Chemical Engineering (2015)
Christopher Dundas received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering (’15) with a minor in Biotechnology at the University at Buffalo. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering (’20) at the University of Texas at Austin, under the guidance of Dr. Benjamin (Keith) Keitz. During his doctoral training, Christopher studied and engineered electroactive soil bacteria – a unique class of microbes that can directly convert carbon sources into electrical energy. Using techniques in materials science and synthetic biology, he demonstrated that bacterial electron transfer can control the formation of a variety of functional organic and inorganic materials. At UT Austin, Christopher also developed genetic tools that increase the programmability and responsiveness of bioelectrical behavior.
At Stanford, Christopher is using bacterial/plant synthetic biology to uncover how plants transfer carbon from roots to soil and aid terrestrial carbon sequestration.
At Stanford, Christopher is using bacterial/plant synthetic biology to uncover how plants transfer carbon from roots to soil and aid terrestrial carbon sequestration.