Associate Professor
Washington State University
Pullman, WA, United States
I am Philip D. Bates, Associate Professor, Institute of Biological Chemistry at Washington State University. My lab focuses on understanding and controlling lipid metabolic flux in model organisms, oilseed crops, and plants that accumulate valuable unusual fatty acids. Our approach quantifies flux through the overlapping network of membrane lipid and oil biosynthesis to understand the pathway structure first, then we identify the gene products that control acyl flux and produce diverse lipid compositions second. Our recent research has identified novel lipid metabolic pathways in plants such as Physaria fendleri, and identified metabolic bottlenecks in oilseed fatty acid engineering that we are currently working to design novel strategies to overcome the metabolic bottlenecks to produce designer oils.
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Tuesday, May 2, 2023
10:10 AM – 10:30 AM MDT