SEC Form 3

FORM 3

UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 INITIAL STATEMENT OF BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP OF SECURITIES Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940

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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person* SHAULSON JOSEPH H (Last) (First) (Middle) C/O METABOLIX, INC. 21 ERIE STREET (Street) CAMBRIDGE MA 02139 (City) (State) (Zip)	2. Date of Event Requiring Statement (Month/Day/Year) 12/19/2013	3. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol METABOLIX, INC. [ MBLX ]
		4. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer (Check all applicable) X Director 10% Owner Officer (give title below) Other (specify below)	5. If Amendment, Date of Original Filed (Month/Day/Year)
			6. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line) X Form filed by One Reporting Person Form filed by More than One Reporting Person

Table I - Non-Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned
1. Title of Security (Instr. 4)	2. Amount of Securities Beneficially Owned (Instr. 4)	3. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 5)	4. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 5)

Table II - Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned (e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)
1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr. 4)	2. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date (Month/Day/Year)		3. Title and Amount of Securities Underlying Derivative Security (Instr. 4)		4. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security	5. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 5)	6. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 5)
	Date Exercisable	Expiration Date	Title	Amount or Number of Shares

Explanation of Responses:

No securities are beneficially owned.

	/s/ Sarah P. Cecil, attorney-in-fact	12/23/2013
	** Signature of Reporting Person	Date
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Exhibit 24

POWER OF ATTORNEY

	KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned hereby
constitutes and appoints Sarah P. Cecil, Charles A. Haaser,
Christopher J. Denn, John M. Mutkoski, and Evan Kearns, and any
one of them acting singly, the true and lawful attorneys-in-fact
and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution,
for the undersigned and in the undersigned's name, place and
stead, in any and all capacities (until revoked in writing) to
execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in any and all of
the undersigned's capacities, any and all statements on Forms 3,
4 and 5 with respect to the undersigned's holdings of and
transactions in securities issued by Metabolix, Inc. (the
"Company") in accordance with Sections 16(a) of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), and any
and all regulations promulgated thereunder, and to file the same,
with all exhibits thereto, and any other documents in connection
therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and with
any other entity when and if such is mandated by the Exchange Act
or by the By-laws of the National Association of Securities
Dealers, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents full
power and authority to do and perform each and every act and
thing requisite and necessary fully to all intents and purposes
as the undersigned might or could do in person thereby ratifying
and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or
their substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be
done by virtue hereof.

	This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and
effect until the undersigned is no longer required to file Forms
3, 4 and 5 with respect to the undersigned's holdings of and
transactions in securities issued by the Company, unless earlier
revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the
foregoing attorneys-in-fact.

	IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this Power of Attorney has been signed
as of December 19, 2013.


Signature:	/s/ Joseph Shaulson

Name:	Joseph Shaulson