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Anna Rath joined Ceres as Director of Business Development in 2004. Prior to joining Ceres, she was a consultant with McKinsey & Company. She holds a JD from the Yale Law School and an MS in Human Genetics from the University of Michigan. Ceres (www.ceres.net) is the leading developer of first-generation energy crops for cellulosic ethanol production. Its research covers switchgrass, miscanthus, sugarcane, poplar and other crops. Ceres has sequenced over 15,000 full-length switchgrass genes, and begun scaling-up seed for commercial release of its first varieties of enhanced switchgrass, currently planned for 2009. Ceres is working to develop a portfolio of dedicated energy crops appropriate for a broad range of geographies and processing technologies. Ceres headquarters are located in Thousand Oaks, California.