Rosalind Franklin, Principal at Rosalind Franklin Group. A Certified Professional Coach and Consultant based in the San Francisco Bay Area with a diverse background of work and volunteer experience. Passionate about combining my consulting in organizational strategy and leadership development experience, with my training in relationship building and emotional awareness. Blended together [...]
Sarah Richardson, Co-founder of MicroByre. A computational and molecular biologist, Dr. Richardson specializes in the design of genomes. Dr. Richardson earned her B.S. in Biology at the University of Maryland College Park; with the support of a prestigious DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship she earned a Ph.D. in Human Genetics and [...]
Jake Becraft, Co-founder and CEO of Strand Therapeutics Jake Becraft is a synthetic biologist and biotech entrepreneur, as well as the co-founder and CEO of Strand Therapeutics. Strand is situated at the intersection of synthetic biology, immunotherapy, and mRNA therapeutics. Jake started his career developing the SAfER platform at MIT, the [...]
Megan Molteni, staff writer at WIRED Megan Molteni is a staff writer at WIRED, covering the intersection of science, health, and technology. Prior to joining WIRED she freelanced as a reporter, audio producer, and fact-checker. Her work has appeared in Popular Science, Discover, Undark, Nautilus, and Aeon. Molteni studied biology and [...]
Melissa Thomas, Principal Scientist, Biologics – Protein Technologies, Amgen Dr. Thomas has more than 12 years’ experience in biologics in the biopharma industry. She has experience in downstream purification and analytical characterization of a wide range of proteins, supporting both large and small molecule therapeutic development. Her work with bispecific modalities [...]
Trevor Martin, CEO and Co-Founder of Mammoth Biosciences. Trevor is focused on creating the world’s first CRISPR-based platform for disease detection, taking impactful CRISPR technology out of the lab and bringing it into the hands of doctors and consumers. Prior to co-founding Mammoth, Trevor completed his PhD in Biology at Stanford [...]
Johan Kers, VP, Research at AbSci. Johan is VP, Research at AbSci LLC, a synthetic biology company developing E. coli as a biomanufacturing platform for the soluble and scalable production of complex protein therapeutics, including full-length antibodies and next-generation antibody scaffolds. He joined AbSci in 2018 and has previously served in [...]
Laura Smoliar, Founding Partner of the Berkeley Catalyst Fund. Laura Smoliar became a Founding Partner of the Berkeley Catalyst Fund because it combines her passion for mentoring technical entrepreneurs with her interest in philanthropy. Laura founded a start-up in 2005 called Mobius Photonics (acquired by NASDAQ:IPGP), where she served as Chairman [...]
Diane Retallack, Senior Director, Upstream Processing and Intellectual Property at Pfenex. Diane Retallack has >20 years of experience in microbial strain engineering and currently leads teams performing high throughput strain engineering and robust, scalable fermentation processes using a Pseudomonas fluorescens based expression system.
Shota Atsumi, Associate Professor at the University of California, Davis. Shota Atsumi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of California, Davis. He received his Ph.D. from Kyoto University in 2002. He works in the field of synthetic biology and metabolic engineering for biochemical production. The [...]
