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Chemist, Engineer & Microbiologist w/ 10+ years in academia and industry | Harvard, UC Berkeley, Yale, Boston Biotechs
Profile Summary
Subject Matter Expertise
Services
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.