Evans is a Senior Technical Fellow at BioMADE.org, a Department of Defense Manufacturing Innovation Institute. He helped conceptualize and stand up BioMADE, then served as interim CTO during its inaugural year. Evans has nearly 40 years’ experience in industrial biotechnology in small and large companies, and 17 years in biotech public private partnerships. He performed post-doctoral research at UC Berkeley (siderophores) and at USDA NRRL in Peoria (ruminal enzymology). Accomplishments include developing and manufacturing the first registered engineered microbial biopesticide, creating multiple high-capacity heterologous protein expression platforms, enabling a synthetic biology workflow rapidly producing zinc finger nucleases for plant genome editing, and establishing advanced bioanalytical capabilities in mass spectrometry and microscopy. Evans participated in I/UCRCs and was Chair of the industrial advisory board of NSF-SynBERC, continuing on to the inaugural EBRC leadership team. Evans was Vice Chair of the BIO Organization’s synthetic biology working group. He was an Ad Hoc advisor to the UN CBD on-line forum on synthetic biology and digital sequence information, and engaged domestically on ELSI analysis of a DARPA program. He served as a committee member on the National Academies of Sciences Preparing for Future Products of Biotechnology and Safeguarding the Bioeconomy reports.

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