Jee Loon is currently a cluster leader and research assistant professor at the National University of Singapore in the NUS Synthetic Biology for Clinical and Technological Innovation (SynCTI). He received his Ph.D. in Biological Chemistry from the Australian National University in 2009. He had postdoctoral training in protein engineering and metabolic engineering at the Nanyang Technological University and University of California, Berkeley. His research interests lie in the understanding and engineering of biological systems at the interface of chemistry and biology to confer novel functionalities. These include the construction of metabolic pathways in microbes for biosynthesizing valuable biochemicals, and rewiring of metabolic flux via genome modification and synthetic genomics to alter properties of organisms.