Synthetic Biology Spotlight

The journey of an architect, strategist and visionary began in 2005 with a simple question: “What if we could grow cement?” In 2012, Ginger co-founded Biomason to rapidly accelerate biological cement for the built environment where she served 11 years as the founding CEO, and on the Board of Directors. She grew the company and biocement technology from second bedroom lab, to international commercialization with over 50+ disciplines, multiple international patents granted, grant and venture capital through Series C, and significant US Government Department of Defense R&D demonstration contracts for extending biocement based applications beyond precast concrete.

She is most recently co-founder and Executive Director at BIOME Consortia, a globally distributed institute. BIOME Consortia was founded on the mission of accelerating the emergence of a new industrial bioeconomy, by establishing an interconnected global prospecting platform and archive; a constellation of subject matter partners, open-source standards, strain-banking and genomics, analytical tools and workflows; focused on unlocking the near-infinite potential of microbiology in shaping matter into useful forms.

She currently holds multiple roles as advisor and Board Director, and has served as a professor of architecture at the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates and North Carolina State University.