Mark Budde is the Co-founder and CEO of Plasmidsaurus, a global DNA Sequencing as a Service company founded in 2021. Mark has a PhD in molecular biology, worked at a startup to build biofuel in cyanobacteria, and led several synthetic biology projects with Michael Elowitz at Caltech.

Plasmidsaurus is on a mission to accelerate human and planetary health by unlocking a new level of productivity for bioengineers. Our global network of labs allows scientists to drop samples in one of Plasmidsaurus’s 700+ collection boxes on the way out of the lab and receive their full sequencing results before they arrive at work in the morning.