Charles Denby

Charles earned a PhD from University of California at Berkeley, where he also developed a passion for craft beer. While honing his genetic engineering skills by day, he experimented furiously with homebrewing at night. He started Berkeley Yeast, a yeast genetic engineering startup, with the mission of working side-by-side with brewers to create new yeast strains that tackle some of their most persistent challenges. When not in the lab, find him climbing in Yosemite, skiing the backcountry, or descending a remote canyon in the Cascade mountains.