Metabolix, Inc. announced the formation of a Scientific Advisory Board (“SAB”) for Yield10 Bioscience, the crop science venture launched by Metabolix in 2015. The Company also announced that Danny Schnell, Ph.D., Professor and Chair of the Department of Plant Biology at Michigan State University, and Michael Lassner, Ph.D., former vice president of trait discovery at Dupont Pioneer, have joined the SAB. Yield10 is developing proprietary, breakthrough technologies to create step change yield improvements in major food and feed crops.

Danny Schnell, Ph.D. - Currently Professor and Chair of the Department of Plant Biology at Michigan State University, Dr. Schnell's recent research has focused on the function and regulation of protein import into chloroplasts. Dr. Lassner has more than 30 years of commercial research and development experience in agricultural biotechnology. From 2004 to 2014, Dr. Lassner held research leadership positions at Dupont Pioneer.

As vice president of trait discovery, he led research efforts for discovery and early development of traits including insect control, herbicide tolerance, grain quality improvement, drought tolerance and yield improvement.