Reed Molbak, Product Manager at Benchling Reed is a Product Manager at Benchling, the leader in cloud-based informatics for life sciences R&D. Reed works with leading synthetic biology and biopharma organizations to optimize and organize R&D processes on Benchling.
Dominik Mojzita, Principal Scientist at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland PhD in microbiology at Gothenburg University (Sweden). Last 12 years working at VTT (Finland) on molecular biology, genetic engineering, and development of synthetic expression tools for yeasts, filamentous fungi, plants and mammalian cells.
Victoria Chernow, Fellow at ARPA-E Dr. Victoria Chernow is a Fellow at ARPA-E, guiding program development and scouting energy and emissions relevant technology. Her interests include bio-inspired design and engineered biological solutions for carbon sequestration. She received her Ph.D. in Materials Science from Caltech, studying the relationship between nanomaterial form and [...]
Ulrika Lidstrom, Biotechnology Lead at Innovation Lab Rika works with companies to translate biology into sustainable solutions with a lasting positive impact on the world. She holds a M.Sc in Marine Biology, a Berkeley Haas MBA, and 15 years start-up and corporate industry experience in biotechnology across several sectors. [...]
Raj Judge, Corporate Partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Raj Judge is a corporate partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. Raj specializes in corporate and securities law for technology companies and advises on venture financings, IPOs, and mergers and acquisitions. He has been involved in over 500 transactions during [...]
Christopher Oakes, Vice President of NovoNutrients Christopher Oakes, MA, is the Vice President of NovoNutrients, a biotechnology firm making feed from CO₂. Chris is a marine scientist, biotechnologist and professional scuba diver with an academic background in both marine biology and immunology. Today he is focused today on how to leverage [...]
Michael Sneddon, Engineering Manager for NGS Software at Zymergen. Michael Sneddon has been at Zymergen for the past two years where he leads a team responsible for building and scaling up Zymergen’s NGS computational infrastructure and related bioinformatics data pipelines and databases.
Nethaji Gallage, CEO and co-founder of Octarine Nethaji is the CEO and co-founder of Octarine, a synthetic biology company producing superior cannabinoids. She has PhD in Biochemistry and was a research group leader at center for synthetic biology, Uni Copenhagen. She has previously led research idea all the way to commercialization [...]
Simone Ross, Founder of Idea Evolution Ventures Simone advises companies on their content and conference strategy, and is known for creating insightful and challenging programs that connect the people and ideas at the intersection of technology and progress. As the cofounder and chief program officer of Techonomy Media she was responsible [...]
Claudia Vickers, Director of the CSIRO Synthetic Biology Future Science Platform at CSIRO and Group Leader in the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology at The University of Queensland. A/Professor Vickers holds dual roles as Director of the CSIRO Synthetic Biology Future Science Platform at CSIRO and Group Leader in the [...]
