We speak with Dr. Karen Wooley, chief technology officer at biomaterials company Teysha Technology, about her work developing bioplastics materials for the packaging market.Wooley holds the W. T. Doherty-Welch chair in Chemistry and is a University distinguished professor at Texas A&M University, with appointments in the Departments of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering. She also serves as director of the Laboratory for Synthetic-Biologic Interactions.