Engineering Solar-Powered Bacterial Communities for Flexible Production of Fuels and Bioplastics Danny Ducat Assistant Professor, Michigan State University, Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, and MSU-DOE Plant Laboratory. Ducat received his doctoral degree from John Hopkins University and did his postdoctoral research at Harvard Medical School. The emerging "Green Economy" holds the promise of harnessing photosynthetic organisms for sustainable production of commodity goods...