Dennis Dimitri Krutkin (dennisdkrutkin@gmail.com) is a cum laude graduate of San Diego State University with a B.S. in Cellular and Molecular biology. His research interests involve the intersection of bioinformatics, multi-omics, metabolic modeling and networking, systems biology, and bioengineering. In the C1 Biocatalysis Lab, his primary focus is integrating -omics and metabolic modeling with microbial physiology to engineer Methylomicrobium alcaliphilum towards becoming an efficient and scalable biocatalytic platform.