Kyle is an alum of our group. He is now the Director of Information and Analysis at thePublic Intellectual Property Resource for Agriculture and a research affiliate at the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology program. He is also a co-founder of Agrivida Inc., an agricultural biotechnology company creating novel corn varieties for producing fuel ethanol. Kyle served as Vice President of Agrivida from 2002-2006. He is published widely in the field of biotechnology including publications in both Nature and Science. He has a Ph.D. from MIT and B.S. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, both in chemical engineering.

Publications

• C. Loose*, K. Jensen* (co-first author), I. Rigoutsos, & G. Stephanopoulos. "A linguistic model for the rational design of antimicrobial peptides," Nature, 443: 867-869 (2006).
• Jensen K, Murray F. Intellectual property landscape of the human genome. Science. 2005 Oct 14;310(5746):239-40.
• Styczynski MP, Moxley JF, Tong LV, Walther JL, Jensen KL, Stephanopoulos GN. Systematic identification of conserved metabolites in GC/MS data for metabolomics and biomarker discovery. Anal Chem. 2007 Feb 1;79(3):966-73.
• Jensen K, Alper H, Fischer C, Stephanopoulos G. Identifying functionally important mutations from phenotypically diverse sequence data. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2006 May;72(5):3696-701.
• Fischer CR, Alper H, Nevoigt E, Jensen KL, Stephanopoulos G. Response to Hammer et al.: Tuning genetic control--importance of thorough promoter characterization versus generating promoter diversity. Trends Biotechnol. 2006 Feb;24(2):55-6. Epub 2005 Dec 27.
• Jensen KL, Styczynski MP, Rigoutsos I, Stephanopoulos GN. A generic motif discovery algorithm for sequential data. Bioinformatics. 2006 Jan 1;22(1):21-8. Epub 2005 Oct 27.
• Styczynski MP, Jensen KL, Rigoutsos I, Stephanopoulos GN. An extension and novel solution to the (l,d)-motif challenge problem. Genome Inform. 2004;15(2):63-71.
• K. Jensen, M. Styczynski, & G. Stephanopoulos. "Machine learning approaches to modeling the physiochemical properties of small peptides," Proceedings of the Fourth Singapore-MIT Alliance Conference on Molecular Engineering of Biological and Chemical Systems (2005).
• K. Jensen, & G. Stephanopoulos. "Bioinformatics and handwriting/speech recognition: unconventional applications of similarity search tools," Proceedings of the Fourth Singapore-MIT Alliance Conference on Molecular Engineering of Biological and Chemical Systems (2005).
• G. Stephanopoulos & K. Jensen. "Metabolic engineering: developing new products and processes by constructing functioning biosynthetic pathways in vivo," AIChE Journal 51(12) p. 3091-3093 (2005)