Twist Bioscience: Mike Fero

Twist Bioscience has appointed Mike Fero as chief information officer. Fero comes to Twist from TeselaGen Biotechnology, where he was cofounder and CEO. Prior to TeselaGen, he was a principal investigator and NIH Career Fellow at Stanford University where he explored the signaling pathways that govern the bacteria cell cycle through the development of an automated epifluorescence microscopy platform. He also served as director of Stanford Functional Genomics, where he collaborated on the development of the first human and murine genome scale microarrays. Prior to Stanford, Fero served as VP of software engineering at Neomorphic. He holds a doctorate in physics from the University of California, Irvine.