Kevin Mcbride
Senior Scientist at Digestiva
Davis, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Mcbride is a senior scientist with 14+ years leading research and commercialization in agricultural biotechnology, currently shaping trait development and productization at Digestiva. He co-developed BXN cotton and pioneered expression and controllable regulation of genes in plant chloroplasts, including the first demonstration of insect resistance expression in that organelle. Kevin has a strong track record of translating protein engineering and high-throughput transformation tools into commercial traits across three companies, and he founded an artificial antibody technology to mitigate agronomic impacts. His work includes evolving a sulfonylurea-responsive gene switch from TetR and creating widely used transformation vectors that benefited both industry and academia. Based in Davis, CA, he combines deep molecular engineering with hands-on project leadership and a knack for building teams that move complex biotech innovations from lab to market. An uncommon thread in his career is applying microbial-inspired control systems (e.g., quorum sensing concepts) to plant gene regulation, revealing a cross-domain inventive approach.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Food Science and Technology, MS, Food Science and Technology at University of California, Davis
Github Skills (102)
programming-language10
bitnami10
interpreter10
http-client10
javascript10
ecosystem10
charts10
bundle10
php-framework10
helm10
golang10
compiler10
ajax10
kubernetes10
symfony-bundle10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
krmcbride/dockerfiles
Jul 2017 - Jul 2023
Contributions:156 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 1 month
krmcbride/docker-ubuntu
Apr 2015 - Dec 2016
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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