Dr. Stephanie Culler
Dr. Stephanie Culler
Co-Founder & CEO
Persephone Biosciences

Prior to establishing Persephone Biosciences, a synthetic biology company reimagining patient health through the development of microbiome-based medicines, Stephanie was a senior scientist at Genomatica, where she developed and applied synthetic biology tools toward the engineering of microorganisms as biocatalysts for the commercial production of sustainable chemicals. She received her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology under the mentorship of Prof. Christina Smolke and has over sixteen publications and patents on synthetic biology and microbial based technologies.