Daniel Gachotte

Daniel Gachotte

Postdoctoral Researcher

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Senior Research Biochemist at ADM

  • Education

    • Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France

      1991 - 1995
      Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

      Selection and characterization of sterol biosynthesis mutants in Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh. Isolation of a cDNA encoding a delta 7-sterol-C5 desaturase by heterologous functional complementation of a yeast mutant with an Arabidopsis cDNA library.

  • Experience

    • School of Science at IUPUI

      Jul 1995 - Feb 1999
      Postdoctoral Researcher

      Postdoctoral fellow focusing on yeast molecular genetics and analytical biochemistry to identify and characterize the last three genes encoding the ergosterol pathway and identifying potential fungicidal drug target.

    • Dow AgroSciences

      Feb 1999 - Jun 2019
      Senior Research Scientist

      Fully integrated in the seed trait platform as analytical biochemist then as project leader and finally as laboratory supervisor in the output trait program. Several patents and products were fully characterized in seed oil modification and new mass spectrometers based analytical tool were acquired for the characterization.

    • Corteva Agriscience

      Jun 2019 - Jun 2020
      Principal Investigator

      Lead analytical for fungicide natural product and applied Metabolomic and Lipidomic analytical platforms to investigate optimization in fermentation processes.

    • ADM

      Sept 2020 - now
      Senior Research Biochemist/ manager
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Six Sigma Green Belt