Jon Entine, Founder and executive director of the Genetic Literacy Project. Jon Entine is founder and executive director of the Science Literacy Project, a non-profit funded by independent foundation grants that oversees three web based science literacy websites: Genetic Literacy Project (GLP), Epigenetics Literacy Project (ELP) and Genetic Expert News Service (GENeS). The GLP focuses on the [...]
Mostafa Ronaghi, Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer at Illumina Mostafa Ronaghi, Ph.D., joined Illumina in August 2008. As Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, he is responsible for leading internal research and technology development (RTD) and is co-founder of Illumina Accelerator, the world’s first business accelerator focused solely [...]
John McCafferty, Founder and CEO of IONTAS John McCafferty was one of the founders of Cambridge Antibody Technology (CAT) and co-inventor of antibody phage display, a technique allowing facile selection of human antibodies from antibody repertoires of 10 billion or more clones. The technology he invented has proved to be robust [...]
Santanu Dasgupta, SVP and Head of Biology R&D, Reliance Industries Limited. SVP and Head of Biology R&D, Reliance Industries Limited. A Biotechnology research professional with Ph. D in Molecular biology and expertise in global regulatory policies and Biotechnology outreach. Managing R&D focused on food, feed, nutrition and biomaterials [...]
Christina Agapakis, Creative Director at Ginkgo Bioworks Christina Agapakis is a biologist, writer, and artist known for her experiments exploring the future of biotechnology. She is creative director at Ginkgo Bioworks, a synthetic biology company that specializes in prototyping, designing, and licensing bioengineered microbes to a variety of industries. Since opening [...]
Sarah Evanega, Director of the Cornell Alliance for Science Sarah Evanega is director of the Cornell Alliance for Science. She received her PhD in the field of Plant Biology from Cornell University in 2009, for which she conducted an interdisciplinary study combining work in plant molecular biology with science communication. Her [...]
Seth Bannon, Founding Partner at Fifty Years Seth Bannon is a Founding Partner at Fifty Years, a San Francisco based seed fund that backs entrepreneurs solving the world’s biggest problems with technology. Seth has seeded many synthetic biology startups shaping the world for the better — from product companies like Memphis [...]
Zachary Sun, CEO and Co-founder of Tierra Biosciences. Zachary Sun has been developing fundamental synthetic biology technologies since 2006, and has published work on MAGE genomic engineering in Nature and on a cell-free prototyping environment in eLife. The latter forms the basis for Tierra Biosciences (formerly Synvitrobio). Sun is a NDSEG [...]
Greg Lohman, Senior Scientist at New England Biolabs Greg Lohman is a Senior Scientist in the New England Biolabs Molecular Enzymology Division. His research group studies the enzymology of DNA ligases, leveraging mechanistic insights into practical improvements in molecular and synthetic biology applications.
Sri Kosuri, Co-founder at Octant and an Assistant Professor at UCLA Sri is a biologist that has helped build technologies, labs, and companies in synthetic biology, functional genomics, and bioinformatics over the last 20 years. He is passionate about developing more rational ways to understand and engineer biology. Sri is a [...]
