Affiliation: US Naval Research Laboratory

Scott Walper is a Research Biologist at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) within the Center for Bio/Molecular Science and Engineering (CBMSE). Dr. Walper obtained his PhD from The University of Southern Mississippi in Chemistry in 2010 and joined NRL as a National Research Council Post-doctoral Fellow in the same year. As a federal scientist he has led or contributed to a number of research programs in synthetic biology including engineering bacteria for bioremediation, biomaterials for flexible electronics, and designing a microbial sentinel for pathogen detection. In addition to these, Dr. Walper maintains research programs exploiting cell-free systems for building in vitro enzymatic cascades for biosynthesis of chemical precursors.