Company OverviewYield10 Bioscience
Yield10 Bioscience, Inc. (NASDAQ: YTEN) is an agricultural bioscience company that is using its differentiated trait gene discovery platform, the “Trait Factory”, to develop improved Camelina varieties for the production of proprietary seed products, and to discover high valuable genetic traits for the agriculture and food industries. Our goals are to efficiently establish a high value seed products business based on developing superior varieties of Camelina for the production of feedstock oils, nutritional oils, and PHA bioplastics, and to license our yield traits to major seed companies for commercialization in major row crops, including corn, soybean and canola.Yield10 is headquartered in Woburn, MA and has an Oilseeds Center of Excellence in Saskatoon, Canada.
Speaker BioPresident & CEO
Yield10 Bioscience
Dr. Peoples is the president and CEO of Yield10 Bioscience. He is a pioneer of the field of metabolic engineering, the forerunner of synthetic biology, which began at MIT in the mid 1980’s and an experienced entrepreneur and biotechnology executive with over 35 years of experience in science and technology innovation, intellectual property development, partnerships and commercialization. Dr. Peoples was a Founder of Metabolix, Yield10’s predecessor company.
