Damian Carrieri

Biography

Damian Carrieri helps to set strategic directions and execute approaches to tackle challenges needed to support and assure a thriving bioeconomy. The department’s efforts focus on identifying and demonstrating strategies to upgrade renewable resources for biomanufacturing for fuels and chemicals and to perform ecosystem services like greenhouse gas, wastewater, and plastics utilization.

Before joining Sandia, Damian worked as a Principal Scientist at Lumen Bioscience and at Matrix Genetics, both in Seattle, Washington. His focus in the biotechnology industry was to improve photosynthetic biomass production and increase rates and yields of protein products from cyanobacteria. Damian’s postdoctoral research was at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

Education

Ph.D., Chemistry, Princeton University, 2009

M.A., Chemistry, Princeton University, 2006

B.A., Chemistry and Theatre (Mathematics Minor), Washington and Jefferson College, 2004

Research Interests

Photosynthesis, Algae Philology and Metabolism, Predictive Biology, Computational Chemistry, Protein Therapeutics

Professional Organization and Leadership

American Chemical Society

Publications

Benjamin W. Jester et al. (2022) “Development of spirulina for the manufacture and oral delivery of protein therapeutics” Nature Biotechnology 40: 956-964

Damian Carrieri, Tracey Jurista, Nina Yazvenko, Adan Schafer Medina, Devin Strickland, and James Roberts (2021) “Overexpression of NblA decreases phycobilisome content and enhances photosynthetic growth of the cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942” Algal Research 60: 102510

Damian Carrieri, Thomas Lombardi, Troy Paddock, Melissa Cano, Gabriel A. Goodney, Ambarish Nag, William Old, PinChing Maness, Michael Seibert, Maria Ghirardi, and Jianping Yu (2017) “Transcriptome and proteome analysis of nitrogen starvation responses in Synechocystis 6803 ΔglgC, a mutant incapable of glycogen storage” Algal Research 21: 64-75

Carrie Eckert, Marko Boehm, Damian Carrieri, Jianping Yu, Alexandra Dubini, Peter J. Nixon, and PinChing Maness (2012) “Genetic Analysis of the Hox Hydrogenase in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 reveals subunit roles and association, assembly, maturation, and function” The Journal of Biological Chemistry 287: 43502-43515

Damian Carrieri, Troy Paddock, PinChing Maness, Michael Seibert, and Jianping Yu (2012) “Photo-catalytic conversion of carbon dioxide to organic acids by a recombinant cyanobacterium incapable of glycogen storage” Energy and Environmental Science 5: 9457-9461

Damian Carrieri, Gennady Ananyev, Oliver Lenz, Donald A. Bryant, and G. Charles Dismukes (2011) “Contribution of a sodium ion gradient to energy conservation during fermentation in the cyanobacterium Arthrospira (Spirulina) maxima CS-328” Applied and Environmental Microbiology 77: 7185-7194

Damian Carrieri, Karen Wawrousek, Carrie Eckert, Jianping Yu and PinChing Maness (2011) “The role of the bidirectional hydrogenase in cyanobacteria” Bioresource Technology 102: 8368-8377

Patents & Trademarks

• Biological production of organic compounds (US20130203136A1)
• Cyanobacteria having improved photosynthetic activity (US9914907B2)
• Microorganisms with increased photosynthetic capacity (US20180134755A1)