Kevin Myers is an Assistant Scientist in the Donohue lab and Noguera lab at the Wisconsin Energy Institute and the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Myers received an undergraduate degree in Biology from the University of Evansville in Evansville, IN. He obtained his PhD in microbiology studying anaerobic growth of the bacterium Escherichia coli at UW-Madison and performed post-doctoral research on engineering an evolved yeast for biofuel production at UW-Madison. 

As a computational and bioinformatic scientist, he analyzes multi-omic data to determine how to use individual microbes and microbial communities to produce biofuel and other valuable bio-products from non-food based plant biomass grown on marginal lands. He also develops tools and pipelines so members of the scientific community both within and beyond GLBRC can more easily analyze large data sets.