Gary Andersen

Veracet, Inc. provides water testing services for watersheds, lakes, and rivers. Veracet is based in Berkeley, CA and was founded by Gary Andersen. The company uses a DNA profiling technology called PhyloChip to detect all bacteria with a single test and accurately identify the source of microbial pollution. The company's users include lake and pond management companies, HOAs, and concerned residents. The CEO is Take Ogawa.

Second Genome, Inc. develops microbiome-based therapeutic products. It offers phyclochip community, 16S sequencing community analysis, whole metagenomic profiling, nucleic acid isolation, inferred function and custom informatics services. The company was founded in 2009 by Corey S. Goodman, Janet A. Warrington, Todd Z. DeSantis, John Hulls and Gary Andersen and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory engages on research of environmental studies, nanoscience, and quantitative biology, physics and nuclear energy. The lab is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and managed by the University of California. It was founded in 1931 by Ernest Orlando Lawrence and is headquartered in Berkeley, CA.