Edgardo T. Farinas received his B.S. in Chemistry from Loyola University Chicago in 1990 and his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California-Santa Cruz in 1997. Currently, he is an Associate Professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Postdoctoral research was at Yale University, Califonia Institute of Technology, and the University of Texas, Austin. His research interests include Protein Engineering, Directed Evolution, Protein Display, Enzymes, and Biotechnology.