Participants
Hal Alper
Assistant Professor
Chemical Engineering
The University of Texas at Austin
J. Christopher Anderson
Assistant Professor
Bioengineering
University of California, Berkeley
Frances H. Arnold
Dick and Barbara Dickinson Professor of Chemical Engineering and Biochemistry
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
California Institute of Technology
Shota Atsumi
Assistant Professor
Chemistry
University of California, Davis
Randy Bartels
Monfort Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
School of Biomedical Engineering
Colorado State University
Kirstie Bellman
Principal Scientist
Computer and Software Division
The Aerospace Corporation, an FFRDC
Steven Benner
Distinguished Fellow
Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution, Inc.
Meredith Betterton
Assistant Professor
Physics
University of Colorado at Boulder
Richard Bonneau
Assistant Professor
Biology and Computer Science
New York University
Richard Braatz
Professor and Millennium Chair
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Cassandra M. Brooks
Freelance Science Writer
Donald Burke-Agüero
Associate Professor
Molecular Microbiology & Immunology and Department of Biochemistry
University of Missouri
Yizhi Cai
PhD Student, Graduate Research Associate
Virginia Bioinformatics Institute
Virginia Tech
Barry Canton
Founder
Ginkgo BioWorks
R. Alta Charo
Senior Advisor
Office of the Commissioner
Food & Drug Administration
Tanguy Chouard
Senior Editor, Biology
Nature
Patrick Cirino
Assistant Professor
Chemical Engineering
Pennsylvania State University
Sonya L. Collins
Graduate Student
Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication
University of Georgia
John Cumbers
Graduate Student
Molecular Biology, Cellular Biology and Biochemistry
Brown University / NASA
Narasimhan Danthi
Program Director
Advanced Technologies Branch
NIH/NHLBI
Gregory Dewey
Robert E. Finnigan Professor
Computational Biology
Keck Graduate Institute
Laura Dress
Interdisciplinary Studies
University of Maryland Baltimore County
Michael Elowitz
Associate Professor of Biology and Applied Physics
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
California Institute of Technology
Sarah E. Evans
Program Analyst
U.S. Department of State
Roxanne Ford
Program Director
W.M. Keck Foundation
William Foster
Clinical Associate Professor & Research Professor
Ophthalmology & Physics
Weill-Cornell Medical School & The University of Houston
Miguel Fuentes-Cabrera
Research Scientist
Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Justin Gallivan
Associate Professor
Chemistry
Emory University
Charles Gersbach
Assistant Professor
Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
Joshua Gilmore
Postdoctoral Fellow
Fuels Synthesis
Joint BioEnergy Institute
James Glazier
Director, Biocomplexity Institute
Physics
Indiana University
Catherine Goodman
Associate Editor
Nature Chemical Biology
Anne Heberger Marino
Senior Evaluation Associate
National Academies Keck Futures Intiative
The National Academies
Henry Hess
Associate Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Columbia University
Kerwyn Huang
Assistant Professor
Bioengineering
Stanford University
Oleg Igoshin
Assistant Professor
Bioengineering
Rice University
Farren Isaacs
Postdoctoral Fellow
Genetics
Harvard University
Samie Jaffrey
Associate Professor
Pharmacology
Weill Medical College
Cornell University
Michael Jewett
Assistant Professor
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Northwestern University
Frederik C. Joelving
Graduate Student
Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program
New York University
Cristen Kelly
Program Associate
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
The National Academies
Wendy Kelly
Assistant Professor
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Georgia Institute of Technology
Chaitan Khosla
Chair, Chemical Engineering
Department of Chemical Engineering
Stanford University
Ching-Hwa Kiang
Professor
Physics & Astronomy
Rice University
Kent Kirshenbaum
Associate Professor
Chemistry
New York University
Eric Klavins
Assistant Professor
Electrical Engineering
University of Washington
Rob Knight
Assistant Professor
Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of Colorado, Boulder
Melissa Knothe Tate
Professor
Biomedical and Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Case Western Reserve University
Carla Koehler
Professor
Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of California, Los Angeles
Jane Kondev
Professor of Physics
Physics and Program in Quantitative Biology
Brandeis University
Tanja Kortemme
Assistant Professor
Bioengineering & Therapeutic Sciences
UCSF & California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences
Olga P. Kuchment
Science Writing Program
University of California, Santa Cruz
Jay B. Labov
Senior Advisor for Education and Communication
National Academy of Sciences
The National Academies
Paul Laibinis
Professor
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Vanderbilt University
David A. LaVan
Project Leader
Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Joshua Leonard
Assistant Professor
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Northwestern University
Rachel Lesinski
Program Associate
National Academies Keck Futures Intiative
The National Academies
Wendell Lim
Professor
Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology
Biochemistry and Biophysics
University of California, San Francisco
Qing Lin
Assistant Professor
Chemistry
University at Buffalo
Kerry Love
Posdoctoral Associate
Chemical Engineering
Massachusets Insttitute of Technology
Yi Lu
Professor
Chemistry
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Michel Maharbiz
Assistant Professor
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley
Noah Malmstadt
Assistant Professor
Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
University of Southern California
John March
Assistant Professor
Biological Engineering and Environmental Engineering
Cornell University
Ichiro Matsumura
Associate Professor
Biochemistry
Emory University School of Medicine
Kathleen Matthews
Stewart Memorial Professor
Biochemistry & Cell Biology
Rice University
Jennifer Maynard
Assistant Professor
Chemical Engineering
University of Texas at Austin
Linda Miller
Executive Editor
Nature and the Nature Journals
Nature Publishing Group
Ronald Milligan
Professor, Director
Cell Biology, Center for Integrative Molecular Biosciences
The Scripps Research Institute
Shalini Misra
Planning, Policy and Design
School of Social Ecology
University of California, Irvine
Alexander Mitrophanov
Research Scientist
Biotechnology High-Performance Computing Software
Applications Institute
Russell Monds
Senior Fellow
Chemical and Systems Biology
Stanford University
Richard Murray
Professor
Control & Dynamical Systems and Bioengineering
California Institute of Technology
Robert Nerem
Professor and Director
Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience
Georgia Institute of Technology
Alexander J. Ninfa
Professor
Biological Chemistry
University of Michigan Medical School
Julie Norville
Ph.D Candidate
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Santa J. Ono
Senior Vice Provost
Emory University
Erin K. O’Shea
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Professor, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Department of Molecular Biology and Cellular Biology
Harvard University
Norman Packard
CEO
ProtoLife Inc.
Joe Palca
Science Correpondent
NPR
Lynne R. Peeples
Graduate Student
Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program
New York University
Maria Pellegrini
Executive Director, Programs
W.M. Keck Foundation
Todd Peterson
Vice President, Research and Development
Genomics Technologies R&D
Molecular Biology Systems
Invitrogen, Life Technologies
Jeffrey L. Poet
Associate Professor of Mathematics
Computer Science, Math and Physics
Missouri Western State University
Kristala L. J. Prather
Assistant Professor
Chemical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nathan Price
Assistant Professor
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering & Institute for Genomic Biology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Christopher Rao
Assistant Professor
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Sohi Rastegar
Director
Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation
National Science Foundation
Ann Reid
Director
American Society for Microbiology
Brandon R. Reynolds
Freelance Writer
University of Southern California
Penny Riggs
Assistant Professor
Animal Science
Texas A&M University
Richard Roberts
Professor
Chemistry, Chemical Engineering/Materials Science & Biology
University of Southern California
Alexander Rose
Executive Director
The Longnow Foundation
Deboleena Roy
Associate Professor
Women’s Studies and Neuroscience and Behavior Biology
Emory University
Katherine S. Ryan
Postdoctoral Scholar
Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine
Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD
Stephen Ryan
President, Doheny Eye Institute
Grace and Emery Beardsley Distinguished Professor in Ophthalmology
Board Member W.M. Keck Foundation
Casim Sarkar
Assistant Professor
Bioengineering
University of Pennsylvania
Alanna Schepartz
Milton Harris ’29 Ph.D. Professor
Chemistry and of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Yale University
Jeffery A. Schloss
Program Director, Technology Development Coordination
Extramural Research
National Human Genome Research Institute
National Institutes of Health
Claudia Schmidt-Dannert
Professor
Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics
University of Minnesota
Stephanie W. Schupska
Graduate Student
Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication
University of Georgia
Georg Seelig
Assistant Professor
Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
University of Washington
Ehud Shapiro
Professor
Department of Computer Science and Applied Math and Dept of Biological Chemistry
Weizmann Institute of Science
Reshma Shetty
DNA Hacker
Ginkgo BioWorks
Michael L. Shuler
McCormick Chair of Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical Engineering
Cornell University
Samuel Sia
Assistant Professor
Biomedical Engineering
Columbia University
Michael Sismour
NIH Postdoctoral Fellow
Genetics
Harvard University
Steven Skiena
Professor
Computer Science
Stony Brook University
Christina D. Smolke
Assistant Professor, Bioengineering
Department of Bioengineering
Stanford University
H.Tom Soh
Associate Professor
Materials and Mechanical Engineering
University of California, Santa Barbara
Eileen M. Spain
Professor
Chemistry
Occidental College
David Sprinzak
Postdoctoral Scholar
Biology
California Institute of Technology
Narayan Srinivasa
Senior Research Scientist
Information and System Sciences
HRL Laboratories LLC
Daniel Stokols
Chancellor’s Professor
Department of Planning, Policy and Design and Department of Psychology and Social Behavior
Program in Public Health and Department of Epidemiology
School of Social Ecology and College of Health Sciences
University of California, Irvine
David Stopak
Recruiting Editor
PNAS
The National Academies
Daniel W. Strain
Science Communication
University of Southern California
Michael Strano
Charles and Hilda Roddey Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Kimberly Suda-Blake
Program Director
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
The National Academies
Nancy Sung
Senior Program Officer
Burroughs Wellcome Fund
Jeffrey Tabor
Postdoctoral Fellow
Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco
Mercedes Talley
Program Director
W.M. Keck Foundation
Yinjie Tang
Assistant Professor
Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering
Washington University
Jingdong Tian
Assistant Professor
Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
David Tirrell
Ross McCollum-William H. Corcoran Professor
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
California Institute of Technology
Daniel van der Lelie
Scientist
Biology
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Valda Vinson
Senior Editor
Science Editorial
Science, AAAS
Christopher Voigt
Associate Professor
Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco
Clifford Wang
Assistant Professor
Chemical Engineering
Stanford University
Pin Wang
Assistant Professor
Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
University of Southern California
Yingxiao Wang
Assistant Professor
Bioengineering and Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Douglas Weibel
Assistant Professor
Biochemistry
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Leor Weinberger
Assistant Professor / Pew Scholar
Chemistry & Biochemistry, and
Whitaker Institute for Biomedical Engineering
University of California, San Diego
Ron Weiss
Associate Professor
Bioengineering and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jonathan S. Weissman
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Professor, Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology
Professor, Biochemistry and Biophysics
University of California, San Francisco
Joshua Weitz
Assistant Professor
Biology and Physics
Georgia Institute of Technology
Lauren M. Whaley
Masters Candidate
Specialized Journalism
University of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communications & Journalism
Jan A. Witkowski
Executive Director
Banbury Center
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Eileen Woo
Postdoctoral Fellow
Chemical and Systems Biology
Stanford University
Bing Xu
Associate Professor
Chemistry
Brandeis University
Elsa Yan
Assistant Professor
Chemistry
Yale University
Peng Yin
Senior Postdoctoral Scholar
Bioengineering, Computer Science, Center for Biological Circuit Design
California Institute of Technology
Hang Yin
Assistant Professor
Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of Colorado at Boulder
Yohei Yokobayashi
Assistant Professor
Biomedical Engineering
University of California, Davis
Lingchong You
Assistant Professor
Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
Huimin Zhao
Professor
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Laurie Zoloth
Director
Center for Bioethics, Science and Society
Northwestern University
