Karsten Temme

About Karsten Temme

Helping those who are the greatest stewards of our land is my passion. Since Alvin Tamsir and I founded Pivot Bio, we have grown from a fearless start-up, to a company with products on millions of U.S. cropland acres and just beginning our journey to expand to farmers in other countries. By harnessing the power of the microbe, farmers using Pivot Bio products can confidently replace synthetic nitrogen. The impact is significant: reliable yields, reduced GHG emissions, better water quality, protecting biodiversity, and stronger farmer margins.Thank you to our customers and independent sales representatives who have used and sold our microbial nitrogen. Together, we have replaced over tons of synthetic fertilizer in the last year, avoiding approximately 226,400 metric tons of carbon emissions, the equivalent of powering homes in the U.S. for a year. We are just getting started.

Experience

1. Chief Innovation Officer

   Pivot Bio

   Aug 2023 — Present · Berkeley, CA, US

Education

• University of California, Berkeley

  PhD, Bioengineering

  2005 — 2010

• University of Iowa

  BS, Biomedical Engineering

  1998 — 2002

• University of Iowa

  MS, Biomedical Engineering

  2002 — 2003

Skills

• Molecular Biology
• Fluorescence Microscopy
• Genetics
• Biomedical Engineering
• Biotechnology
• Protein Purification
• Cell Biology
• Biomaterials
• Pcr
• Molecular Cloning
• Biochemistry
• Flow Cytometry
• Microscopy
• Protein Chemistry
• Western Blotting
• Synthetic Biology
• Genomics
• Confocal Microscopy
• Lifesciences
• Computational Biology
• Protein Expression
• Cell Culture
• Bioinformatics