Thomas McKeon
United States Department of Agriculture, USA
Title: Industrial oil crops as renewable resources providing replacements for petrochemicals
Biography
Biography: Thomas McKeon
Abstract
Thomas McKeon has received his PhD in Biochemistry at UC Berkeley and Postdoctoral research in Plant Biochemistry at UC Davis. He has over 100 publications, mostly in plant lipid enzymology and molecular biology. He is an Editor and chapter author for the book Industrial Oil Crops, published in March, 2016 by Elsevier and AOCS Press. He is an Editor for Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology (BAB), Board Member for American Oil Chemists Society (AOCS), Biotechnology Division and International Society for Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology (ISBAB). He has organized conferences for ISBAB and for US-Japan Natural Resources (UJNR) Food and Agriculture Panel
