Dr. Yumin Tao is the CSO at Living Carbon PBC. With over 20 years of working experience in synthetic biology, Yumin strives to leverage the power of biotechnology to solve pressing issues facing mankind, from hunger, to health, to climate change. After graduating from Purdue University with training in biochemical molecular biology, Yumin spent nearly two decades working at DuPont Pioneer as a project leader in a number of areas including gene editing, herbicide trait discovery, enzyme engineering, and event management. As Research Director of Protein Engineering at Antheia, Yumin helped the company progress towards the goal of providing the community with easy access to high valued pharmaceutical compounds. Excited about the mission of Living Carbon to positively impact climate change, Yumin and his colleagues are dedicated to creating plants that will increase carbon drawdown from the atmosphere and reduce carbon emissions back to the air. Happily married with two children, Yumin enjoys free time with family and friends, cooking, playing sports, and volunteering at the local church and around the community.