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Chemist, Engineer & Microbiologist w/ 10+ years in academia and industry | Harvard, UC Berkeley, Yale, Boston Biotechs

Profile Summary

-Ph.D. Chemist and Microbiologist with interdisciplinary positions in both academia (Harvard, UC Berkeley, Yale) and industry (Boston-area sustainability-focused agricultural biotech company). -Domain expertise in renewable energy, sustainability, agricultural applications of chemistry, engineering and microbiology. -Accomplished scientist with first-authored publications in Science, Nature Nanotechnology, PNAS, JACS. -Expert reviewer for Science, PNAS, JACS, Appl. Microbiol. Biotechnol., and more. -Expertise in patent and IP strategy, manuscript preparation (writing, figure preparation). -Startup founder with experience in market research, feasibility studies, technoeconomic analyses. -Award winning science educator and science communicator. Experience in course materials preparation.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ★ Chemistry
• ★ Microbiology
• ★ Sustainable Development
• ☆ Electrochemistry
• ☆ Renewable Energy
• ☆ Agricultural Biotechnology
• ☆ Technical & Scientific Writing
• ☆ Manuscript & Journal Article Writing

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Consulting

Writing Technical Writing, Copywriting, Newswriting

Research Market Research, Feasibility Study, Fact Checking, Gray Literature Search, Systematic Literature Review, Secondary Data Collection

Consulting Scientific and Technical Consulting

Work Experience

President

Biko Biolabs

November 2020 - Present

Founder, Science Director

Kula Bio

August 2018 - November 2020

Postdoctoral Fellow

Harvard University

June 2016 - July 2018

Postdoctoral Fellow

Harvard Medical School

June 2016 - July 2018

HUCE Fellow

Harvard University Center for the Environment

June 2016 - July 2018

NSF Research Fellow/Course Instructor

UC Berkeley

August 2012 - May 2016

Research Fellow/Tutor

Yale University

June 2009 - May 2012

Course Instructor

The Summer Concept

May 2010 - August 2010

Education

PhD (Chemistry)

UC Berkeley

August 2012 - May 2016

BS (Chemical Engineering)

Yale University

August 2008 - May 2012

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Zhang, H., Liu, H., Tian, Z., Lu, D., Yu, Y., Cestellos-Blanco, S., Sakimoto, K.K., Yang, P.(2018). Bacteria photosensitized by intracellular gold nanoclusters for solar fuel production . Nature Nanotechnology. 13. (10). p. 900-905.

Guo, J., Suástegui, M., Sakimoto, K.K., Moody, V.M., Xiao, G., Nocera, D.G., Joshi, N.S.(2018). Light-driven fine chemical production in yeast biohybrids . Science. 362. (6416). p. 813-816.

Sakimoto, K.K., Kornienko, N., Cestellos-Blanco, S., Lim, J., Liu, C., Yang, P.(2018). Physical Biology of the Materials-Microorganism Interface . Journal of the American Chemical Society. 140. (6). p. 1978-1985.

Kornienko, N., Zhang, J.Z., Sakimoto, K.K., Yang, P., Reisner, E.(2018). Interfacing nature’s catalytic machinery with synthetic materials for semi-artificial photosynthesis . Nature Nanotechnology. 13. (10). p. 890-899.

Nangle, S.N., Sakimoto, K.K., Silver, P.A., Nocera, D.G.(2017). Biological-inorganic hybrid systems as a generalized platform for chemical production . Current Opinion in Chemical Biology. 41. p. 107-113.

Liu, C., Sakimoto, K.K., Colón, B.C., Silver, P.A., Nocera, D.G.(2017). Ambient nitrogen reduction cycle using a hybrid inorganic-biological system . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 114. (25). p. 6450-6455.

Sakimoto, K.K., Kornienko, N., Yang, P.(2017). Cyborgian material design for solar fuel production: The emerging photosynthetic biohybrid systems . Accounts of Chemical Research. 50. (3). p. 476-481.

Sakimoto, K.K.(2017). Iron microbe: Outfitting organisms for extreme environments . Biochemist. 39. (6). p. 30-33.

Kornienko, N., Sakimoto, K.K., Herlihy, D.M., Nguyen, S.C., Alivisatos, A.P., Harris, C.B., Schwartzberg, A., Yang, P.(2016). Spectroscopic elucidation of energy transfer in hybrid inorganic-biological organisms for solar-to-chemical production . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 113. (42). p. 11750-11755.

Sakimoto, K.K., Zhang, S.J., Yang, P.(2016). Cysteine-Cystine Photoregeneration for Oxygenic Photosynthesis of Acetic Acid from CO<inf>2</inf> by a Tandem Inorganic-Biological Hybrid System . Nano Letters. 16. (9). p. 5883-5887.

Sakimoto, K.K., Wong, A.B., Yang, P.(2016). Self-photosensitization of nonphotosynthetic bacteria for solar-to-chemical production . Science. 351. (6268). p. 74-77.

Kim, D., Sakimoto, K.K., Hong, D., Yang, P.(2015). Artificial photosynthesis for sustainable fuel and chemical production . Angewandte Chemie - International Edition. 54. (11). p. 3259-3266.

Liu, C., Gallagher, J.J., Sakimoto, K.K., Nichols, E.M., Chang, C.J., Chang, M.C.Y., Yang, P.(2015). Nanowire-bacteria hybrids for unassisted solar carbon dioxide fixation to value-added chemicals . Nano Letters. 15. (5). p. 3634-3639.

Sakimoto, K.K., Liu, C., Lim, J., Yang, P.(2014). Salt-induced self-assembly of bacteria on nanowire arrays . Nano Letters. 14. (9). p. 5471-5476.

Li, X., Guard, L.M., Jiang, J., Sakimoto, K., Huang, J.-S., Wu, J., Li, J., Yu, L., Pokhrel, R., Brudvig, G.W., et al.(2014). Controlled doping of carbon nanotubes with metallocenes for application in hybrid carbon nanotube/Si solar cells . Nano Letters. 14. (6). p. 3388-3394.

Li, X., Jung, Y., Sakimoto, K., Goh, T.-H., Reed, M.A., Taylor, A.D.(2013). Improved efficiency of smooth and aligned single walled carbon nanotube/silicon hybrid solar cells . Energy and Environmental Science. 6. (3). p. 879-887.