Appendix II
Conference Participant Lists by Year
The following lists of conference participants are reproduced from those previously published in conference summaries. Names, affiliations, and titles are accurate as of when the conference occurred and may not reflect a particpant’s current information. Participant lists for the 2003 Signaling conference and 2017 Beyond Boundaries conference were drawn from conference rosters as no conference summary was published for those meetings.
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative Conference Participants Signals, Decisions, and Meaning in Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and Engineering November 14–16, 2003, Irvine, CA
Invited Research Participants
Uri Alon
Senior Scientist Weizmann Institute of Science
Department of Molecular Cell Biology and Physics of Complex Systems
Steven Altschuler
Fellow
Harvard University
Center for Genomics Research
Robert Anholt
Professor
North Carolina State University
Department of Zoology and Genetics
Adam Arkin
Assistant Professor
University of California, Berkeley
Departments of Bioengineering and Chemistry
Anand Asthagiri
Assistant Professor
California Institute of Technology
Department of Chemical Engineering
Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
Emil T. Hofman Professor of Physics
University of Notre Dame
Department of Physics
Lee Bardwell
Assistant Professor
University of California, Irvine
Department of Developmental and Cell Biology
Bonnie Bassler
Associate Professor
Princeton University
Department of Molecular Biology
Kevin Bassler
Assistant Professor
University of Houston
Department of Physics
Toby Berger
Professor
Cornell University
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
William Bialek
Professor
Princeton University
Department of Physics
Mina Bissell
Distinguished Scientist
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Life Sciences Division
Richard Blahut
Department Head and Professor
University of Illinois
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
David Botstein
Professor
Princeton University
Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics
Jehoshua Bruck
Gordon & Betty Moore Professor
California Institute of Technology
Computation & Neural Systems and Electrical Engineering
Joan Brugge
Professor
Harvard Medical School
Department of Cell Biology
Linda Buck
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
John Byrne
Professor and Chairman
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy
Christopher Chen
Assistant Professor
Johns Hopkins University
Department of Biomedical Engineering
David F. Clayton
Professor
University of Illinois
Department of Cell & Structural Biology
Oliver Collins
Professor
University of Notre Dame
Department of Electrical Engineering
Thomas Cover
Kwoh-Ting Li Professor
Stanford University
Information Systems Laboratory
Fred Cross
Professor
The Rockefeller University
Peter Devreotes
Professor
Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine
Scott Diamond
Professor
University of Pennsylvania
Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
Emmanuele DiBenedetto
Centennial Professor of Mathematics
Vanderbilt University
David Donoho
Professor
Stanford University
Department of Statistics
John Doyle
Professor
California Institute of Technology
Department of Computer Science
Jay Dunlap
Dartmouth Medical School
Department of Genetics
Michael Elowitz
Assistant Professor
California Institute of Technology
Michale Fee
Associate Professor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Jim Ferrell
Professor
Stanford University
School of Medicine
Daniel Fisher
Professor
Harvard University
Department of Physics and Applied Physics
Ernest Fraenkel
Whitehead Fellow
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
Judith Frydman
Assistant Professor
Stanford University
Department of Biological Sciences and BioX Program
John Gerhardt
Professor
University of California, Berkeley
Graduate School of Cell Development and Cell Biology
Deda Gillespie
University of Pittsburgh
Department of Neurobiology
Albert Goldbeter
Université Libre de Bruxelles
Faculté des Sciences
Richard Gomer
Investigator and Professor
Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Rice University
Department of Biochemistry & Cell Biology
Kun-Liang Guan
Professor
University of Michigan
Medical School
Department of Biological Chemistry
Klaus Hahn
The Scripps Research Institute
Department of Cell Biology
Bruce Hajek
Professor
University of Illinois
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Kim Hamad-Schifferli
Horner A. Burnell Assistant Professor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Mechanical and Biological Engineering
Heidi Elizabeth Hamm
Professor and Chair
Vanderbilt University
School of Medicine
Department of Pharmacology
Jeff Hasty
University of California, San Diego
Department of Bioengineering
Vassily Hatzimanikatis
Assistant Professor
Northwestern University
Xi He
Associate Professor
Children’s Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Division of Neuroscience & Biology
Dennis Healy
Program Manager
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Gregory Hoffman
Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellow
Harvard Medical School
Department of Cell Biology
Christopher Hughes
Associate Professor
University of California, Irvine
School of Biological Sciences
Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
Terence Hwa
Professor
University of California, San Diego
Department of Physics
Donald Ingber
Professor and Senior Research Associate
Children’s Hospital
Vascular Biology Program
Douglas Jones
Professor
University of Illinois
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Yannis Kevrekidis
Professor
Princeton University
Department of Chemical Engineering
Marc Kirschner
Professor and Chairman
Harvard Medical School
Department of Cell Biology
Roy Kishony
Fellow
Harvard University
Doug Lauffenburger
Professor and Director
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Chemical Engineering & Biology
Gilles Laurent
Professor
California Institute of Technology
Division of Biology
James Leary
Professor
University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Andre Levchenko
Assistant Professor
Johns Hopkins University
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Herbert Levine
Professor
University of California, San Diego
Department of Physics
Hod Lipson
Assistant Professor
Cornell University
Trudy Mackay
William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor of Genetics
North Carolina State University
Department of Genetics
J. Lawrence Marsh
Professor
University of California, Irvine
School of Biological Sciences
Gero Miesenbock
Assistant Professor
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Program
Cellular Biochemistry and Biophysics Program
Zina Ben Miled
Assistant Professor
Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Chris Myers
Senior Research Associate
Cornell University
Cornell Theory Center
Radhika Nagpal
Postdoctoral Lecturer
Harvard University
Medical School/Computer Science
Janet Oliver
Regent’s Professor
University of New Mexico School of Medicine
Department of Pathology
Bruno Olshausen
Associate Professor
University of California, Davis
Redwood Neuroscience Institute
Department of Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior
Gordon Osbourn
Laboratory Fellow
Sandia National Laboratories
Erin O’Shea
University of California, San Francisco
Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics
Maria Pallavicini
Dean
University of California, Merced
School of Natural Sciences
Wolfgang Porod
Professor
University of Notre Dame
Department of Electrical Engineering
Sharad Ramanathan
Member of Technical Staff
Lucent Technologies
Bell Labs
Oliver Rando
Genome Fellow
Harvard University
Bauer Center for Genomic Research
Rama Ranganathan
Assistant Professor
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Department of Pharmacology
Animesh Ray
Associate Professor
Keck Graduate Institute
Aviv Regev
Harvard University
Bauer Center for Genomics Research
David Schaffer
Assistant Professor
University of California, Berkeley
Department of Chemical Engineering and Neuroscience
James Schwaber
Professor
Thomas Jefferson University
Terrence Sejnowski
Professor and Head of the Computational Neurobiology Laboratory
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Eva Sevick-Muraca
Professor
Texas A&M University
Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry
Stanislav Shvartsman
Assistant Professor
Princeton University
Lewis-Sigler Institute
Jennie Si
Professor
Arizona State University
Department of Electrical Engineering
Pamela Silver
Professor
Harvard Medical School
Department of Biological Chemistry & Molecular Pharmacology
Michael Simpson
Group Leader
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Molecular-Scale Engineering and Nanoscience Technologies
Michael Springer
University of California, San Francisco
Cynthia Stokes
Principal Scientist
Entelos, Inc.
Silico R&D Department
Prapun Suksompong
Cornell University
Michael Surette
Professor
University of Calgary
Jonathan Sweedler
Lycan Professor
University of Illinois
John Swets
Chief Scientist, Emeritus
BBN Technologies
David Tank
Professor
Princeton University
Peter Thomas
Research Associate & Professor
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Computational Neurobiology Laboratory
Claire Tomlin
Assistant Professor
Stanford University
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Yuhai Tu
Research Staff Member
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Physical Sciences Department
John Tyson
Professor
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Department of Biology
Andrew Viterbi
President
The Viterbi Group
Christopher Voigt
Assistant Professor
University of California, San Francisco
Samuel Wang
Assistant Professor
Princeton University
Department of Molecular Biology
Rebecca Ward
Director
Harvard Medical School
Institute of Chemistry and Cell Biology
Jonathan Weissman
Professor and Assistant Investigator
University of California, San Francisco
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
John Whitmarsh
Program Director
National Institute of General Medicine Sciences
Division of Cell Biology and Biophysics
H. Steven Wiley
Director
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Biomolecular Systems Initiative
Ned Wingreen
Senior Research Scientist
NEC Laboratories America, Inc.
Joyce Wong
Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor
Boston University
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Lani Wu
Fellow
Harvard University
Center of Genomics Research
Ryohei Yasuda
Postdoctoral Researcher
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Mark Yeckel
Assistant Professor
Yale University
School of Medicine
Department of Neurobiology
Lingchong You
Postdoctoral Scholar
California Institute of Technology
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Muhammad Yousaf
Damon Runvon and Burroughs Wellcome Interface Postdoctoral Fellow
Harvard Medical School
Phillip Zamore
Associate Professor
University of Massachusetts Worcester
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Pharmacology
Representatives from Private and Public Funding Agencies, Universities, Professional Societies, Journals, and the Science Media
Marcia Bartusiak
Author
Enriqueta Bond
President
Burroughs Wellcome Fund
Philip Campbell
Editor
Nature
Marvin Cassman
Director
QB3 Initiative, UCSF/UCB/UCSC
Barbara Culliton
Vice President for Publishing and Editor in Chief
Genome News Network
The Center for the Advancement of Genomics
Ellie Ehrenfeld
Chief
Picornavirus Replication Section
National Institutes of Health
Susan Fitzpatrick
Vice President
James S. McDonnell Foundation
Richard N. Foster
Member, Board of Directors
W. M. Keck Foundation
Evelyn Fox Keller
Professor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Program in Science, Technology, and Society
Laura Garwin
Director
Harvard University
Bauer Center for Genomics Research
Peggy Girshman
Assistant Managing Editor
National Public Radio
Barry Gold
Program Officer
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Bruce Hamilton
Division Director
National Science Foundation
Division of Bioengineering and Environmental Systems
Maryanna Henkart
Division Director
National Science Foundation
Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences
Robert Leheny
Deputy Director
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Microsystems Technology Office
John Linehan
Vice President
Whitaker Foundation
Larry McIntire
Georgia Tech and Emory University
The Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering
Jeanne Narum
Director
Project Kaleidoscope
Joe Palca
Correspondent
National Public Radio
Maria Pellegrini
W. M. Keck Foundation
Andrew Revkin
Environment Reporter
The New York Times
Carl Safina
President
Blue Ocean Institute
John Schaefer
President
Research Corporation
Vivian Siegel
Executive Director
Public Library of Science
Mercedes Talley
W. M. Keck Foundation
John Tarbell
CUNY and Wallace Coulter Distinguished Professor
The City College of New York/CUNY
Department of Biomedical Engineering
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative Conference Participants Designing Nanostructures at the Interface Between Biomedical and Physical Systems
Pre-Conference
Videoconference between the Keck Center of the National Academies (Washington, DC) and the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center of the National Academies (Irvine, CA)
September 18–19, 2004
Conference
Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center of the National Academies (Irvine, CA)
November 18–21, 2004
Invited Research Participants
Rigoberto Advincula
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry
University of Houston
Daniel Akins
Center for Analysis of Structures and Interfaces
The City College of New York
Andreas Andreou
Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Johns Hopkins University
Ananth Annapragada
Associate Professor
Department of Bioinformatics
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Raymond Dean Astumian
Professor
Department of Physics
University of Maine
Orlando Auciello
Senior Scientist
Materials Science Division
Argonne National Laboratory
Robert Austin
Professor
Department of Physics
Princeton University
James R. Baker, Jr.
Ruth Dow Doan Professor
Internal Medicine-Allergy Division
Center for Biological Nanotechnology
University of Michigan
Nathan Baker
Assistant Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
Washington University in St. Louis
Mark Banaszak Holl
Professsor
Department of Chemistry
University of Michigan
Prabhakar Bandaru
Assistant Professor
Materials Science Program
University of California, San Diego
Allen Bard
Professor (Hackerman-Welch Regents Chair)
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
The University of Texas at Austin
Andrew Barron
Charles W. Duncan, Jr.–Welch Chair of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry
Rice University
Angela Belcher
John Chipman Career Development Associate Professor of Materials Science
Department of Materials Science, Engineering, and Bioengineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stephen Boppart
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ronald Breslow
Professor
Department of Chemistry
Columbia University
Clemens Burda
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry
Case Western Reserve University
Peter Burke
Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Integrated Nanosystems Research Facility
University of California, Irvine
Jennifer Cha
Research Staff Member
Department of Advanced Organic Materials
IBM Almaden Research Center
Mary Jane Cunningham
Associate Director
Department of Life Sciences & Health
Houston Advanced Research Center
Michael Darby
Warren C. Cordner Professor of Money and Financial Markets and Policy Studies
Department of Public Policy
University of California, Los Angeles
Tejal Desai
Associate Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Boston University
Andrew Ellington
Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology
The University of Texas at Austin
Andres Garcia
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Sharon Glotzer
Associate Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Michigan
Rachel S. Goldman
Associate Professor
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
University of Michigan
David S. Goodsell
Associate Professor
Department of Molecular Biology
The Scripps Research Institute
Richard Groff
Postdoctoral Research Engineer
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley
Jason Hafner
Assistant Professor
Department of Physics & Astronomy
Rice University
Kimberly Hamad-Schifferli
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineeering & Biological Engineering Division
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Brian P. Helmke
Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering University of Virginia
Mark Hersam
Assistant Professor
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Northwestern University
Evelyn Hu
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering & Materials
University of California, Santa Barbara
Co-Director
California NanoSystems Institute
University of California
Mark Humayan
Professor
School of Medicine
University of Southern California
Gyeong Hwang
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
The University of Texas at Austin
Donald Ingber
Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology
Department of Pathology and Surgery
Harvard Medical School-Children’s Hospital
Shana Kelley
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry
Boston College
Andrew Kent
Professor
Department of Physics
New York University
William King
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Kent Kirshenbaum
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry
New York University
Michael Koonce
Research Scientist
Department of Molecular Medicine
Wadsworth Center
Kurt Krause
Associate Professor
Department of Biology, Biochemistry, and Chemistry
University of Houston
Way Kuo
Dean of Engineering and University Distinguished Professor
College of Engineering
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Yue Kuo
Dow Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
Texas A&M University
Greg Lanza
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Department of Medicine and Biomedical Engineering
Washington University Medical Center
Cato Laurencin
University Professor
Department of Orthopedic Surgery
University of Virginia Health System
David LaVan
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Yale University
Philip LeDuc
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
Abraham Lee
Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of California, Irvine
Luke Lee
Professor
Department of Bioengineering
University of California, Berkeley
Woo Lee
Professor and Director
Department of Chemical, Biomedical, and Materials Engineering
Stevens Institute of Technology
Randolph Lewis
Professor
Department of Molecular Biology
University of Wyoming
Shuang Fang Lim
Postdoc
Princeton University
Jan Liphardt
Assistant Professor
Department of Physics
University of California, Berkeley
Christopher Love
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Pathology
Harvard Medical School
Dan Luo
Assistant Professor
Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering
Cornell University
David Lynn
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Andrew Lyon
Associate Professor
School of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Georgia Institute of Technology
Peter Ma
Associate Professor
School of Dentistry
University of Michigan
Hari Manoharan
Assistant Professor
Department of Physics
Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials
Stanford University
Chengde Mao
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry
Purdue University
Hiroshi Matsui
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry
Hunter College
Andy McCammon
J. E. Mayer Professor of Theoretical Chemistry
Department of Theoretical Chemistry
University of California, San Diego
Adrienne Minerick
Assistant Professor
Dave C. Swalm School of Chemical Engineering Mississippi State University
Nancy Monteiro-Riviere
Professor of Investigative Dermatology and Toxicology
Center for Chemical Toxicology Research and Pharmacokinetics
North Carolina State University
Liviu Movileanu
Assistant Professor
Department of Physics
Syracuse University
Cherry Murray
Deputy Director for Science and Technology
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Pennsylvania State University
Paul Nealey
Professor
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
University of Wisconsin
Shuming Nie
Professor
Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering
Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology
James Noyes
Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Computational Science Minor
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Whittenberg University
Bradford Orr
Professor of Physics, Director of Applied Physics
Department of Physics
University of Michigan
Sean Palecek
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Babak Parviz
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering
University of Washington
Thomas Perkins
Associate JILA Fellow
National Institute of Standards and Technology and University of Colorado Boulder
Thomas Pollard
Eugene Higgins Professor
Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Yale University
Jon Pratt
Manufacturing Metrology Division
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Suzie Pun
Assistant Professor
Department of Bioengineering
University of Washington
G. Ramanath
Associate Professor
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Robert Raphael
Law Assistant Professor
Department of Bioengineering
Rice University
Mark Ratner
Morrison Professor of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry
Northwestern University
Mark Reed
Harold Hodgkinson Professor of Engineering and Applied Science
Department of Engineering
Yale University
Vincent Rotello
Professor
Department of Chemistry
University of Massachusetts
Michael Roukes
Professor, Director Kavli Nanoscience Institute
Department of Physics, Applied Physics, and Bioengineering
Condensed Matter Physics
California Institute of Technology
Gary W. Rubloff
Professor
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
University of Maryland
Erkki Ruoslahti
Distinguished Professor
The Burnham Institute
Alan Russell
Director
McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine
University of Pittsburgh
Michael Sailor
Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of California, San Diego
Edward (Ted) Sargent
Associate Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Toronto
Holger Schmidt
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering
School of Engineering
University of California, Santa Cruz
Joel Schnur
Director
Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering
Naval Research Laboratory
Ali Shakouri
Associate Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering
Baskin School of Engineering
University of California, Santa Cruz
Michael Simpson
Distinguished Scientist and Professor
Department of Molecular-Scale Engineering
Oak Ridge National Laboratory and University of Tennessee
Peter Singer
Director
Joint Centre for Bioethics
University of Toronto
Meera Sitharam
Associate Professor
Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering
University of Florida
Henry I. Smith
Keithley Professor of Electrical Engineering
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Daniel Sodickson
Director
Laboratory for Biomedical Imaging Research
Harvard Medical School
Lydia L. Sohn
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of California, Berkeley
Judith Stein
Chief Technologist-Emerging Technologies
Department of Polymer and Specialty Materials
GE Global Research
John V. Stone
Applied Anthropologist
Institute for Food and Agricultural Standards
Michigan State University
Samuel Stupp
Board of Trustees
Professor of Materials Science, Chemistry, and Medicine
Director
Institute for Bioengineering and
Nanoscience in Advanced Medicine
Northwestern University
Xing Su
Senior Staff Scientist
Intel Research
Intel Corporation
Judith Swain
Chair
Department of Medicine
Arthur L. Bloomfield and George E. Becker Professors of Medicine
School of Medicine
Stanford University
Todd Thorsen
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Victor Ugaz
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
Texas A&M University
Peter Vikesland
Assistant Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Virginia Tech
George Whitesides
Professor
Department of Chemistry
Harvard University
Samuel Wickline
Professor of Medicine, Physics, and Biomedical Engineering
School of Medicine
Cardiovascular Division
Washington University
Erik Winfree
Assistant Professor
Computer Science and Computation Neural Systems
California Institute of Technology
Patrick Winter
Research Instructor
Cardiovascular Division
Washington University
Peter Wolynes
Principal Investigator
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of California, San Diego
Michael Wong
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
Rice University
Hao Yan
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Arizona State University
Minami Yoda
Associate Professor
School of Mechanical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Bi-Botti Youan
Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
Bernard Yurke
Optical Physics Research Department
Bell Labs
Markus Zahn
Thomas and Gerd Perkins Professor of Electrical Engineering
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lynne Zucker
Professor
Department of Sociology
University of California, Los Angeles
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Ivan Amato
Associate Editor, Science News; Freelance Writer; Book Author
David Auston
President
Kavli Foundation
Barbara Baird
NBTC Director
Nanobiotechnology Center
Cornell University
Marcia Bartusiak
Author
Professor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Maria Bellantone
Editor
Nature
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Associate Editor
FNH News Service
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Science Writer
Science Communication Program
University of California, Santa Cruz
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Graduate Science Communication Student
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Distinguished Professor-Della Martin Chair of Psychiatry
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
University of California, Irvine
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Associate Program Director
Heart Research Program, DHVD
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Institute for Nanoscience
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Executive Director
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Director
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Richard Foster
Chief Executive Officer
Caxton Health Holdings
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W. M. Keck Foundation
Susan Hackwood
Executive Director
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2004 National Academies Communication Award Winner
Stu Hutson
Graduate Science Writing Student
Boston University
Bob Hwang
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Director
Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
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Acting Director
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Deputy Director
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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Reporter
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Correspondent
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Director
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Program Director
W. M. Keck Foundation
Pat Phibbs
Reporter
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Wolfgang Porod
Director
Center for NanoScience and Technology
Department of Electrical Engineering
Notre Dame University
Matt Ridley
Author
2004 National Academies Communication Award Winner
Jeff Schloss
Program Director, Technology Development
National Human Genome Research Institute
National Institutes of Health
Richard J. Schwartz
Co-Director
Purdue University/Birck Nanotechnology Center
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Goody L. Solomon
Exectutive Editor
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Fraser Stoddart
Director
California NanoSystems Institute
Jonathan Stroud
Graduate Student
Science Writing Program
University of Southern California
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Special Assistant for the Chief Strategy Officer
Director External Affairs
American Chemical Society
Philip Szuromi
Supervisory Senior Editor
Science Magazine
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Program Director
W. M. Keck Foundation
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Vice President
Corporate Technology Group
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Intel Corporation
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Reporter
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University of California, Santa Cruz
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Director
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President
National Academy of Sciences
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Program Director
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Executive Director
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Editorial Associate
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Wm. A. Wulf
President
National Academy of Engineering
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative Conference Participants The Genomic Revolution: Implications for Treatment and Control of Infectious Disease
November 10–13, 2005, Irvine, CA
Asem Alkhateeb
Postdoctoral Scholar
Department of Human Genetics
University of Chicago
Megan Atkinson
Senior Program Specialist
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
Philip Awadalla
Assistant Professor
Department of Genetics
North Carolina State University
Agnes Awomoyi
Postdoctoral Scholar
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
University of Maryland, Baltimore
Myles Axton
Editor
Nature Genetics
John Barry
Writer
Benjamin Bates
Assistant Professor
School of Communication Studies
Ohio University
Phillip Berman
Scientific Director
Global Solutions for Infectious Diseases
Bruce Beutler
Professor
Department of Immunology
The Scripps Research Institute
Corey Binns
Graduate Student
Department of Science Journalism
New York University
Sally Blower
Professor
Department of Biomathematics
University of California, Los Angeles
Katie Brenner
Doctoral Candidate
Department of Bioengineering
California Institute of Technology
Steven Brenner
Associate Professor
Department of Plant & Microbial Biology
University of California, Berkeley
James Brody
Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of California, Irvine
Lawrence Brody
Senior Investigator
Genome Technology Branch
National Human Genome Research Institute
William Bunney, Jr.
Distinguished Professor
Della Martin Chair of Psychiatry
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
University of California, Irvine
Karen Burg
Hunter Chair and Professor
Department of Bioengineering
Clemson University
Frederic Bushman
Professor
Department of Microbiology
University of Pennsylvania
Robert Carlson
Senior Scientist
Department of Electrical Engineering
University of Washington
Shu Chien
University Professor of Bioengineering and Medicine
Chair, Department of Bioengineering
University of California, San Diego
Ralph J. Cicerone
President
National Academy of Sciences
Alex Cohen
Research Associate/Programmer
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
Gareth Cook
Reporter
The Boston Globe
Robert Cook-Deegan
Director, Center for Genome Ethics, Law and Policy
Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy
Duke University
Brad Cookson
Associate Professor
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Microbiology
University of Washington
Elliott Crouser
Assistant Professor
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
The Ohio State University Medical Center
Karen T. Cuenco
Research Assistant Professor
School of Medicine
Boston University
Barbara Culliton
Deputy Editor
Health Affairs
Mary Jane Cunningham
Associate Director
Life Sciences and Health Group
Houston Advanced Research Center
Dat Dao
Director
Life Sciences and Health Group
Houston Advanced Research Center
Ronald W. Davis
Professor of Biochemistry and Genetics and Director
Stanford Genome Technology Center
Stanford University School of Medicine
Austin Demby
Senior Staff Fellow
Global AIDS Program
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
George Dimopoulos
Assistant Professor
Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Cecilia Dobbs
Graduate Student
Department of Science Journalism
New York University
Siobhan Dolan
Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women’s Health
Albert Einstein College of Medicine and March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation
Dennis Drayna
Chief, Section on Systems Biology of Communication Disorders
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
National Institutes of Health
Georgia Dunston
Professor
Department of Microbiology
National Human Genome Center
Howard University
Leah Moore Eisenstadt
Graduate Student
Department of Science Journalism
Boston University
Alison Farrell
Senior Editor
Nature Medicine
Michael Fasullo
Senior Research Scientist
Department of Cancer Research
Ordway Research Institute
Jeffrey Feder
Associate Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
University of Notre Dame
Harvey V. Fineberg
President
Institute of Medicine
Daniel A. Fletcher
Assistant Professor
Department of Bioengineering
University of California, Berkeley
Roxanne Ford
Program Director
W. M. Keck Foundation
Richard N. Foster
Managing Partner
Foster Health Partners, LLC
Board Member
W. M. Keck Foundation
Stephanie Malia Fullerton
Assistant Professor
Department of Medical History and Ethics
University of Washington School of Medicine
Kenneth R. Fulton
Executive Director
National Academy of Sciences
Sonja Gerrard
Assistant Professor
Department of Epidemiology
University of Michigan
Peggy Girshman
Assistant Managing Editor
National Public Radio
Lenette Golding
Doctoral Student
Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication
University of Georgia
Ananda Goldrath
Assistant Professor
Department of Biology
University of California, San Diego
Mark Guyer
Director
Division of Extramural Research
National Human Genome Research Institute
Kiryn Haslinger
Science Writer
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
David Haussler
Director of the Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering
and Professor of Biomolecular Engineering
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
University of California, Santa Cruz
Lyla M. Hernandez
Senior Program Officer
Board on Health Sciences Policy
Institute of Medicine
Ezra C. Holston
Assistant Professor
School of Nursing
University of California, Los Angeles
Barbara R. Jasny
Supervisory Senior Editor
Science Magazine
Stephen Albert Johnston
Director and Professor
Center for Innovations in Medicine
Biodesign Institute
Arizona State University
Jonathan Kahn
Assistant Professor
School of Law
Hamline University
Amos Kenigsberg
Graduate Student
Center for Science and Medical Journalism
Boston University
Rima F. Khabbaz
Acting Deputy Director
National Center for Infectious Diseases
Muin J. Khoury
Director
Office of Genomics and Disease Prevention
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Rob Knight
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of Colorado Boulder
Leonid Kruglyak
Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics
Princeton University
Paul Laibinis
Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
Vanderbilt University
Corinne Lengsfeld
Associate Professor
Department of Engineering
University of Denver
Kam Leong
Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Johns Hopkins University
Rachel Lesinski
Senior Program Specialist
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
Thomas Levenson
Associate Professor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mary E. Lidstrom
Associate Dean
New Initiatives in Engineering
University of Washington
Hod Lipson
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Cornell University
Robin Liu
Manager
Microfluidics Biochip
Combimatrix Corporation
Michael Lorenz
Assistant Professor
Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
The University of Texas Health Science Center
Allison Loudermilk
Graduate Student
Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication
University of Georgia
Dan Luo
Assistant Professor
Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering
Cornell University
Alan McBride
Researcher
Goncalo Moniz Research Center
Oswaldo Cruz Foundation
Colleen McBride
Chief
Social and Behavioral Research Branch
National Human Genome Research Institute
Catherine McCarty
Interim Director and Senior Research Scientist
Center for Human Genetics
Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation
Erin McClelland
Research Fellow
Department of Medicine
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Susanne McDowell
Graduate Student
Department of Science Communication
University of California, Santa Cruz
Ulrich Melcher
R.J. Sirny Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Oklahoma State University
Deirdre Meldrum
Director
Center of Excellence in Genomic Science
Microscale Life Sciences Center
National Institutes of Health
Professor of Electrical Engineering
University of Washington
Arcady Mushegian
Director
Bioinformatics Center
Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Isaac Mwase
Associate Professor
Department of Philosophy and Bioethics
National Center for Bioethics in Research and Healthcare
Tuskegee University
Gary Nabel
Director
Vaccine Research Center
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
National Institutes of Health
Daniel Oerther
Associate Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Cincinnati
Susan Okie
Contributing Editor
New England Journal of Medicine
Marc Orbach
Associate Professor
Division of Plant Pathology
University of Arizona
George O’Toole
Associate Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Dartmouth Medical School
Mihri Ozkan
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering
University of California, Riverside
Claire Panosian
Professor of Medicine
Division of Infectious Diseases
David Geffen School of Medicine
University of California, Los Angeles
Babak Parviz
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering
University of Washington
Fabienne Paumet
Associate Research Scientist
Department of Physiology and Biophysics
Columbia University
Aria Pearson
Graduate Student
Science Writing
University of California, Santa Cruz
P. Hunter Peckham
Director, FES Center
Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Case Western Reserve University
Marty Perreault
Program Director
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
Gregory A. Petsko
Gyula and Katica Tauber Professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry
Director, Rosenstiel Center
Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center
Brandeis University
Christopher Plowe
Professor
Department of Medicine
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Haley Poland
Graduate Student
Annenberg School of Journalism
University of Southern California
Alan Porter
Evaluation Coordinating Consultant
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
Mary Reichler
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
David Relman
Assistant Professor
Division of Infectious Diseases
Stanford University
Karin Remington
Vice-President
Bioinformatics Research
J. Craig Venter Institute
Anne W. Rimoin
Assistant Professor
Department of Epidemiology
School of Public Health
University of California, Los Angeles
Bob Roehr
Freelance Science Writer
Dave Roessner
Senior Evaluation Consultant
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
Michael Rose
Director
Intercampus Research Program on Experimental Evolution
University of California (systemwide)
Charles Rotimi
Professor and Director
National Human Genome Center
Howard University
Bernhard Rupp
Structural Genomics Group Leader
Biosciences
University of California Lawrence Livermore National Lab
Daniel Salsbury
Managing Editor
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Paul Schaudies
Assistant Vice-President
Biological and Chemical Defense Division
Science Applications International Corporation
Holger Schmidt
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering
University of California, Santa Cruz
Debra Schwinn
James B. Duke Professor
Department of Anesthesiology and Pharmacology
Duke University Medical Center
Beatrice Seguin
Postdoctoral Fellow
Canadian Program on Genomics and Global Health
University of Toronto
Chandra Shekhar
Graduate Student
Department of Science Writing
University of California, Santa Cruz
Mona Singh
Assistant Professor
Computer Science and Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics
Princeton University
Upinder Singh
Assistant Professor
Department of Internal Medicine, Microbiology, and Immunology
Stanford University
Bill Skane
Executive Director
Office of News and Public Information
The National Academies
Christina Smolke
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
California Institute of Technology
Katherine Spindler
Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
University of Michigan Medical School
Jonathan Stroud
Graduate Student
Annenberg School of Journalism
University of Southern California
Lubert Stryer
Winzer Professor, Emeritus
Department of Neurobiology
Stanford University School of Medicine
Shankar Subramaniam
Professor
Department of Bioengineering
University of California, San Diego
Diane Sullenberger
Executive Editor
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
William Sullivan
Professor
Department of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
University of California, Santa Cruz
Hongmin Sun
Life Science Institute
University of Michigan
Mercedes Talley
Program Director
W. M. Keck Foundation
Todd Thorsen
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sarah Tishkoff
Associate Professor
Department of Biology
University of Maryland
Eric Topol
Provost and Chief Academic Officer
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Victor Ugaz
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
Texas A&M University
Timothy Umland
Department of Structural Biology
Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute
Luis Villarreal
Professor
Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
University of California, Irvine
Joseph Vockley
Laboratory Director
Life Sciences Division
Science Applications International Corporation
Shan Wang
Associate Professor
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Stanford University
Michael Waterman
Professor
Department of Computational Biology
University of Southern California
Robert Waterston
William H. Gates III Endowed Chair in Biomedical Sciences, Chair and Professor
Department of Genome Sciences
University of Washington
Debra Weiner
Attending Physician
Emergency Medicine
Children’s Hospital Boston
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Harvard Medical School
Lloyd Whitman
Head
Code 6177
The Surface Nanoscience and Sensor Technology Section
Naval Research Laboratory
John Wikswo
Gordon A. Cain University Professor
Vanderbilt Institute for Integrated Biosystems Research and Education
Vanderbilt University
John E. Wiktorowicz
Associate Professor
Department of Human Biological Chemistry and Genetics
The University of Texas Medical Branch
Huntington Willard
Director and Professor
Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy
Duke University
Marc S. Williams
Director
Clinical Genetics Institute
Intermountain Health Care
Mary Wilson
Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine and Associate Professor of Population and International Health
Harvard School of Public Health
Harvard Medical School
Elizabeth Winzeler
Associate Professor
Department of Cell Biology
The Scripps Research Institute
Steven Wolinsky
Samuel J. Sackett Professor of Medicine
Medicine
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Wm. A. Wulf
President
National Academy of Engineering
Zhenhua Yang
Assistant Professor
Department of Epidemiology
University of Michigan School of Public Health
Hsiang-Yu Yuan
Graduate Student
Institute of Biomedical Sciences
Academia Sinica
Lyna Zhang
National Center for Infectious Disease
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Hongyu Zhao
Ira V. Hiscock Associate Professor
Department of Public Health and Genetics
Yale University
Shaying Zhao
Assistant Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Institute of Bioinformatics
University of Georgia
Michael Zwick
Assistant Professor
Department of Human Genetics
Emory University School of Medicine
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative Conference Participants Smart Prosthetics: Exploring Assistive Devices for the Body and Mind
November 9–11, 2006, Irvine, CA
James Abbas
Co-Director
Center for Adaptive Neural Systems
The Biodesign Institute
Mark Abel
Professor of Orthopedic Surgery and Pediatrics
Motor Analysis and Motor Performance Laboratory
University of Virginia
Andrew Alleyne
Ralph and Catherine Fisher Professor of Engineering
Mechanical Science and Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Eric Altschuler
Instructor
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
Farid Amirouche
CEO and President
Ortho Sensing Technologies
Richard Andersen
Professor
Biology
Caltech
John L. Anderson
Provost and University Vice President
Case Western Reserve University
Megan Atkinson
Senior Program Specialist
The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
Orlando Auciello
Materials Science Department
Argonne National Laboratory
Dennis Barbour
Assistant Professor
Biomedical Engineering
Washington University in St. Louis
Scott Beardsley
Assistant Professor
Biomedical Engineering Department
Marquette University
Ravi Bellamkonda
Professor
Biomedical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Bradford Bennett
Assistant Professor of Research
Research Director
Motion Analysis and Motor Performance Laboratory
Orthopaedic Surgery
University of Virginia
Theodore Berger
David Packard Professor of Engineering
Director, Center for Neural Engineering
University of Southern California
Gary Berke
President
American Academy of Orthotists and Prosthetists
William Bunney, Jr.
Distinguished Professor
Della Martin Chair of Psychiatry
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
University of California, Irvine
Karen Burg
Hunter Endowed Chair and Professor
Bioengineering Department
Clemson University
Jennifer Byers
Recruiting Editor
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Nancy Byl
Professor and Chair
Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science Department
University of California, San Francisco
Ewen Callaway
Graduate Science Writing Student
University of California, Santa Cruz
Jose M. Carmena
Assistant Professor
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
University of California, Berkeley
Julia Chan
Associate Professor
Chemistry
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Megan Chao
Graduate Student in Broadcast Journalism
Annenberg School for Communication
University of Southern California
Daofen Chen
Program Director
Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Ralph J. Cicerone
President
National Academy of Sciences
Jose Luis Contreras-Vidal
Associate Professor
Kinesiology, Bioengineering, and Neuroscience Program
University of Maryland
Rory Cooper
Distinguished Professor
FISA/PVA Chair
Department of Rehabilitation Science and Technology
University of Pittsburgh
Barbara Culliton
Journalist: Previously Deputy Editor, Nature, and News Editor, Science
Kenneth C. Curley
Chief Scientist
U.S. Army Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center
Chet de Groat
Professor of Pharmacology
University of Pittsburgh
John Donoghue
Director, Brain Science Program
Neuroscience Department
Brown University
Michael Dorman
Professor
Speech and Hearing Science
Arizona State University
Alexander Dromerick
Professor
Rehabilitation Medicine and Neurology Department
National Rehabilitation Hospital
Georgetown University
Donald Eigler
IBM Fellow
IBM Almaden Research Center
Jennifer Elisseeff
Assistant Professor
Biomedical Engineering
Johns Hopkins University
Leon Esterowitz
Program Director
Bioengineering and Environmental Systems
National Science Foundation
Boyd Evans
Research Staff
Biomedical Sciences
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
James Fallon
Professor
Anatomy and Neurobiology
University of California, Irvine
Gary K. Fedder
Howard M. Wilkoff Professor of ECE and Robotics
Director, Institute for Complex Engineered Systems
Carnegie Mellon University
Kirk Fernandes
Graduate Student/Journalist
Center for Science and Medical Journalism
Boston University
Harvey V. Fineberg
President
Institute of Medicine
Kate Fink
Graduate Student, Science Journalism
Boston University
Susan Fitzpatrick
Vice President
James S. McDonnell Foundation
Richard Foster
Managing Partner, Investment and Advisory Services LLC
Board Member, W. M. Keck Foundation
William Foster
Assistant Professor
Physics
University of Houston
Joseph Francis
Assistant Professor
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology
State University of New York Downstate Medical Center
Robert C. Froemke
Postdoc
Department of Otolaryngology
University of California, San Francisco
Ken Fulton
Executive Director
National Academy of Sciences
Fred Gage
Vi and John Adler Professor
Laboratory of Genetics LOG-G
The Salk Institute of Biological Studies
Steven Gard
Research Associate Professor
Physical Medicine Rehabilitation
Northwestern University
Apostolos Georgopoulos
Regents Professor
Director, The Domenici Research Center for Mental Illness Department
University of Minnesota Medical School
Jeremy L. Gilbert
Professor and Associate Dean for Research
Biomedical and Chemical Engineering
Syracuse University
Brent Gillespie
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
University of Michigan
Simon Giszter
Associate Professor
Neurobiology and Anatomy
Drexel University College of Medicine
Steve Goldstein
Henry Ruppenthal Professor
Orthopaedic Surgery and Bioengineering Department
University of Michigan
Kevin Granata
Associate Professor
Musculoskeletal Biomechanics Laboratory
Virginia Tech
Elias Greenbaum
Corporate Fellow
Chemical Sciences Division
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Warren M. Grill
Associate Professor
Biomedical Engineering and Surgery
Duke University
Selcuk Guceri
Dean
College of Engineering
Drexel University
Aparna Gupta
Assistant Professor
Decision Sciences and Engineering Systems
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Brian Hafner
Research Director
Prosthetics Research Study
William Hammack
Professor
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Andrew Hansen
Research Assistant Professor
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Northwestern University
Stuart Harshbarger
System Integrator
The Applied Physics Laboratory
Johns Hopkins University
Jiping He
Professor and Director
Bioengineering and Center for Neural Interface Design
Arizona State University
Anne Heberger
Research Associate
The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
William Heetderks
Director
Extramural Science Program
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
National Institutes of Health
Sarah Heilshorn
Assistant Professor
Materials Science and Engineering
Stanford University
Hugh Herr
Assistant Professor
Program in Media Arts and Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Leigh Hochberg
Instructor/Investigator
Neurology/Neuroscience Department
Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital/Brown University/Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Zhiyu (“Jerry”) Hu
Research Scientist
Life Sciences Division
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Gareth Hughes
Senior Engineer Biomedical
Zyvex Corporation
Mark Humayan
Professor of Ophthalmology
Associate Director of Research
Keck School of Medicine
Doheny Retina Institute
University of Southern California
Star Hy
Booz Allen Hamilton
SETA Support for Program Manager
DARPA/DSO
Pedro Irazoqui
Assistant Professor
Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering
Purdue University
Edwin Iversen
Vice President of Research and Development
Motion Control Inc.
Kenneth Jaffe
Professor, Rehabilitation Medicine
Adjunct Professor, Pediatrics and Neurological Surgery
Editor in Chief, Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
University of Washington School of Medicine
Ranu Jung
Co-Director, Center for Adaptive Neural Systems, The Biodesign Institute
Associate Professor of Bioengineering
Arizona State University
Alla Katsnelson
Graduate Science Writing Student
University of California, Santa Cruz
Homayoon Kazerooni
Professor
Mechanical Engineering
University of California, Berkeley
Danielle Kerkovich
Rehabilitation Research and Development Service
Department of Veterans Affairs
Robert Kirsch
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Case Western Reserve University
Zelma Kiss
Assistant Professor
Department of Clinical Neurosciences
University of Calgary
Elizabeth Kolbert
Staff Writer
The New Yorker
Jack Kotovsky
Engineer
Meso Micro and NanoTechnology
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Conrad Kufta
Director of Clinical Development
Innovative Neurotronics Inc.
Challa Kumar
Group Leader
Nanofabrication
Center for Advanced Microstructures and Devices
Louisiana State University
Themis Kyriakides
Assistant Professor
Biomedical Engineering and Pathology
Yale University
Joerg Lahann
Assistant Professor
Chemical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering
University of Michigan
Cato Laurencin
University Professor
Department of Orthopedic Surgery
University of Virginia Health System
Kendall Lee
Assistant Professor
Neurosurgery, Physiology, Biomedical Engineering, and Neurosurgery
Mayo Clinic Rochester
Irene W. Leigh
Professor
Department of Psychology
Gallaudet University
Rachel Lesinski
Senior Program Specialist
The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
Hod Lipson
Assistant Professor
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Cornell University
Treena Livingston Arinzeh
Assistant Professor
Biomedical Engineering
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Gerald Loeb
Professor
Biomedical Engineering
University of Southern California
Helen H. Lu
Assistant Professor Biomedical Engineering
Columbia University
Charles C. Mann
Author
David Martin
Professor
Materials Science and Engineering Department
University of Michigan
Yoky Matsuoka
Associate Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
University of Washington
Cameron McIntyre
Assistant Professor
Biomedical Engineering
Cleveland Clinic
Michael Merzenich
Francis Sooy Professor of Otolaryngology
Keck Center for Integrative Neurosciences
University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine
Seth Messinger
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Mahesh Mohanty
Project Manager
Advanced Technology
Stryker Orthopaedics
Pedram Mohseni
Assistant Professor
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Case Western Reserve University
David Mooney
Professor
Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Harvard University
Karen Moxon
Associate Professor
School of Biomedical Engineering
Drexel University
Naomi Murray
Senior Research Engineer
R&D—Technology Development
Stryker Orthopaedics
Vivian Mushahwar
Assistant Professor and AHFMR Scholar
Biomedical Engineering and Center for Neuroscience
University of Alberta
Isaac Mwase
Associate Professor of Philosophy and Bioethics
National Center for Bioethics
Tuskegee University
Hamid Najib
Personal Computer and Program Support Specialist
The National Academies
Erica Naone
Graduate Student
Science Writing
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Roger Narayan
Associate Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of North Carolina
Richard Normann
Professor
Bioengineering Department
University of Utah
Randolph Nudo
Director, Landon Center of Aging
Professor, Molecular and Integrative Physiology
The University of Kansas Medical Center
Matthew O’Donnell
Dean
College of Engineering
University of Washington
Marcia O’Malley
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Rice University
Santa Ono
Vice Provost and Deputy Provost
Emory University
Kevin Otto
Assistant Professor
Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering and Biological Sciences
Purdue University
Cengiz Ozkan
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
University of California, Riverside
Joseph Pancrazio
Program Director
Repair and Plasticity Cluster Department
Division Extramural Research
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
National Institutes of Health
Hunter Peckham
Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Case Western Reserve University
Maria Pellegrini
Vice President for Research
Brandeis University
Carlos Pena
Senior Science Policy Analyst
OC/OSHC
Food and Drug Administration
Marty Perreault
Program Director
The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
Haley Poland
Print Journalism Graduate Student
Annenberg School of Communication
University of Southern California
Alan Porter
Evaluation Coordinating Consultant
The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
Steve Potter
Assistant Professor
Laboratory for Neuroengineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Elizabeth (“Beth”) Quill
Graduate Science Writing Student
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sasha (Alexander) Rabchevsky
Assistant Professor of Physiology
Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Center
University of Kentucky
Walter Racette
Director
Certified Prosthetist/Orthotist Assistant Clinical Professor
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
University of California, San Francisco
Buddy Ratner
Professor
Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering
Director, University of Washington Engineered Biomaterials (UWEB)
University of Washington
Vilupanur Ravi
Professor
Chemical and Materials Engineering
California State Polytechnic University
Aristides Requicha
Gordon Marshall Chair in Engineering
Computer Science Department
University of Southern California
Frances Richmond
Director
Regulatory Science Program
School of Pharmacy
University of Southern California
Dave Roessner
Evaluation Consultant
The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
Robert Sah
Professor and Vice Chair
Department of Bioengineering
University of California, San Diego
Khaled Saleh
Associate Professor
Orthopedic Surgery
Division Head and Fellowship Director
Adult Reconstruction
University of Virginia
Gerwin Schalk
Research Scientist IV
Brain-Computer Interface R&D Program
Wadsworth Center
New York State Department of Health
Steven Schiff
Brush Chair Professor of Engineering
Center for Neural Engineering
The Pennsylvania State University
Elmar T. Schmeisser
Neurophysiology and Cognitive Neurosciences
U.S. Army Research Office
Karen Schrock
Science, Health, and Environmental Reporting Program
New York University
Joseph Schulman
President and Chief Scientist
Alfred Mann Foundation
Jeffrey Schwartz
Professor
Chemistry
Princeton University
Arthur M. Sherwood
Science and Technology Advisor
National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research
Department of Education
Patricia Shewokis
Associate Professor and Movement Scientist
College of Nursing and Health Professions
Drexel University
Molly Shoichet
Professor and Director, Undergraduate Collaborative Bioengineering
Canada Research Chair in Tissue Engineering
University of Toronto
William Skane
Executive Director
Office of News and Public Information
The National Academies
Judith Stein
Chief Technologist
Chemical Nanotechnologies Lab Department
GE Global Research
Mercedes Talley
Program Director
W. M. Keck Foundation
Michael E. Tompkins
President
Animated Prosthetics Inc.
Dennis Turner
Professor
Neurosurgery, Neurobiology, and Neuroengineering
Duke University Medical Center
Dustin Tyler
Assistant Professor
Biomedical Engineering
Case Western Reserve University
Heinz Wässle
Professor, Doctor
Max-Planck-Institut
Michael Weinrich
Director
National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research
National Institutes of Health
Bruce Wheeler
Professor and Interim Head
Bioengineering Department
University of Illinois
Blake Wilson
Senior Fellow
RTI International
George Wittenberg
Assistant Professor
Department of Neurology
University of Maryland
Geriatrics Research, Education, and Clinical Center
VA Maryland HCS
Wm. A. Wulf
President
National Academy of Engineering
Nic Young
Executive Producer
Lion House
Edyta Zielinska
Graduate Science Writing Student
New York University
Tom Zimmerman
Graduate Student
Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication
University of Georgia
Wendi Zongker
Graduate Student
Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication
University of Georgia
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative Conference Participants The Future of Human Healthspan: Demography, Evolution, Medicine, and Bioengineering
November 14–16, 2007, Irvine, CA
Steven Abramowitch
Research Assistant Professor
Bioengineering
University of Pittsburgh
Jad Abumrad
Host/Producer
WNYC
Richard Allman
Professor and Director
Center for Aging
University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)
Andrea Anderson
Graduate Science Writing Student
New York University
Suresh K. Arya
Program Director & Senior Investigator
National Cancer Institute
National Institutes of Health
Megan Atkinson
Senior Program Specialist
Keck Futures Initiative
The National Academies
Craig Atwood
Associate Proessor
Medicine
University of Wisconsin–Madison/VA Hospital
Steven N. Austad
Professor
Cellular and Structural Biology
The University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio
Abraham Aviv
Professor and Director
The Center of Human Development and Aging
New Jersey Medical School, UMDNJ
Myles Axton
Editor
Nature Genetics
Nature Publishing Group
Albert Banes
Professor
Biomedical Engineering
NC State/UNC Chapel Hill Joint Dept.
Noah Barron
Graduate Science Writing Student
University of Southern California
Lazelle Benefield
Professor & Parry Chair in Gerontological Nursing
College of Nursing
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Allyson Bennett
Assistant Professor
Physiology and Pharmacology; Pediatrics
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Floyd E. Bloom
Professor Emeritus
Molecular & Integrative Neuroscience
The Scripps Research Institute
Kath Bogie
Senior Reseach Associate/Senior Research Scientist
Orthopaedics
Case Western Reserve University
Bambi Brewer
Assistant Professor
Rehabilitation Science and Technology
University of Pittsburgh
Liming Cai
Senior Service Fellow
National Center for Health Statistics
Judith Campisi
Senior Scientist, Professor
Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Buck Institute for Age Research
John Cannon
Graduate Science Writing Student
Science Communication Program
University of California, Santa Cruz
James Carey
Professor
Entomology
University of California
Laura L. Carstensen
Professor and Vice Chair and Director
Psychology
Stanford University
Nadeen Chahine
Lawrence Fellow
Engineering Technologies Division
Lawrence Livermore National Lab
Megan Chao
Graduate Science Writing Student
University of Southern California
Daofen Chen
Director
Sensorimotor Integration Program
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Ralph J. Cicerone
President
National Academy of Sciences
Allyson Collins
Graduate Science Writing Student
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Rory Cooper
Distinguished Professor, FISA/PVA Chair
Rehabilitation Science and Technology
University of Pittsburgh
Eileen Crimmins
Professor
Center on Biodemography & Population Health
University of Southern California
Clifford Dacso
Executive Director
Abramson Center for the Future of Health
The Methodist Hospital Research Institute
Cristina Davis
Assistant Professor
Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering
University of California, Davis
Nandini Deshpande
Assistant Professor
Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Sciences
University of Kansas Medical Center
John Doyle
John G. Braun Professor of Control and Dynamical Systems, Electrical Engineering and BioEngineering
California Institute of Technology
Rita Effros
Professor
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles
Leon Esterowitz
Program Director
Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems
National Science Foundation
Alicia Figueiredo
Director
The Presidents’ Circle
The National Academies
Caleb Finch
ARCO-William F. Kieschnick Professor in the Neurobiology of Aging and co-Director
Alzheimer Disease Research Center
University of Southern California
Harvey V. Fineberg
President
Institute of Medicine
Dorothy Fleisher
Program Director
W. M. Keck Foundation
Richard N. Foster
Managing Partner, Millbrook Management Group, LLC
Board Member, W. M. Keck Foundation
Vicki Freedman
Professor
Health Systems and Policy
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
Ken Fulton
Executive Director
National Academy of Sciences
Shea Gardner
Computations
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Diddahally Govindaraju
Associate Professor
Neurology
Boston University School of Medicine
Christine Grant
Professor of Chemical Engineering
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
North Carolina State University
Geoffrey Graybeal
Graduate Science Writing Student
Grady College of Journalism & Mass Communication
University of Georgia
X Edward Guo
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical Engineering
Columbia University
Mary Haan
Professor
Epidemiology
University of Michigan
Jong-in Hahm
Assistant Professor
Chemical Engineering
The Pennsylvania State University
Arun Hampapur
Manager and Research Staff Member
Exploratory Computer Vision Group
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Stuart Harshbarger
System Integrator
NSTD
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Anne Heberger
Evaluation Research Associate
Keck Futures Initative
The National Academies
James Herndon
Research Professor of Neuroscience
Yerkes National Primate Research Center
Emory University
Richard J. Hodes
Director
National Institute on Aging
National Institute of Health
Scott Hofer
Professor
Human Development and Family Sciences
Oregon State University
Brian Hofland
Program Director, International Aging Team
The Atlantic Philanthropies (USA) Inc
Stephen Intille
Technology Director, House_n
Architecture
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Robert Jaeger
Program Director
National Science Foundation
Nan Jokerst
J. A. Jones Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Duke University
Matt Kaeberlein
Assistant Professor
Pathology
University of Washington
James Kahan
Adjunct Behavioral Scientist
RAND Corporation
Eric Kandel
Author
Columbia University
Jeffrey Kaye
Professor
Neurology & Biomedical Engineering
Oregon Health & Science University
Don Kennedy
Editor-In-Chief
Science
Corey Keyes
Associate Professor
Sociology, with a joint appt. in Public Health
Emory University
Lauren Gerard Koch
Assistant Professor
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
University of Michigan
Steven Kou
Associate Professor
Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Columbia University
Bruce Kristal
Associate Professor
Department of Neurosurgery
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Robert Krulwich
Co-Host
WNYC
George A. Kuchel
Travelers Chair (Geriatrics), Professor (Medicine)
Director, UConn Center on Aging
University of Connecticut Health Center
Vikram Kumar
Chief Medical Officer
Cogito Health Inc.
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Sarah Kummerfeld
Developmental Biology
Stanford University
Jay B. Labov
Senior Advisor for Education & Communication
Center for Education
National Academy of Sciences
Kenneth Langa
Associate Professor
General Medicine and Institute for Social Research
University of Michigan
Erin Lavik
Assistant Professor
Biomedical Engineering
Yale University
Stephanie Lederman
Executive Director
American Federation for Aging Research
Kyongbum Lee
Assistant Professor
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Tufts University
Ronald Lee
Professor
Demography
University of California, Berkeley
Sean Leng
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Rachel Lesinski
Senior Program Specialist
Keck Futures Intiative
The National Academies
Howard Leventhal
Board of Governors Professor of Health Psychology
Institute for Health and Department of Psychology
Rutgers University
Jane Liaw
Graduate Science Writing Student
University of California, Santa Cruz
Su-Ju Lin
Assistant professor
Microbiology
University of California, Davis
Valter Longo
Associate Professor, Hanson Chair of Biogerontology
Gerontology and Molecular and Computational Biology
University of Southern California Los Angeles
Christopher Love
Assistant Professor
Chemical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Natalia Mackenzie
Graduate Science Writing Student
Boston University
Richard Macko
Director, Maryland Exercise & Robotics Center
Neurology, Medicine, Physical Therapy
University Maryland School Medicine, Baltimore VA
Joao Magalhaes
Genetics
Harvard Medical School
Kenneth Manton
Research Professor, Arts and Sciences
Duke University
George M. Martin
Professor of Pathology Emeritus; Director Emeritus
Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center
University of Washington
Maja Mataric
Professor, Sr. Associate Dean for Research
Computer Science & Neuroscience
University of Southern California
Richard Mayeux
Gertrude H. Sergievsky Professor
Neurology, Psychiatry and Epidemiology
Columbia Univeristy
Stephen McAleavey
Assistant Professor
Biomedical Engineering
University of Rochester
Graham J. McDougall, Jr.
Professor
Nursing
The University of Texas at Austin
Michael Merzenich
Francis Sooy Professor of Otolaryngology
Neurosciences
University of California, San Francisco
Saira Mian
Computer Staff Scientist
Life Sciences Division (MS 74-197)
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Linda Miller
U.S. Executive Editor
Nature & The Nature Journals
Nature Publishing Group
Richard Miller
Professor
Pathology and Geriatrics
University of Michigan
Duncan Moore
Professor of Optical Engineering
The Institute of Optics
University of Rochester
Russell E. Morgan, Jr.
President
SPRY Foundation
Laura Mosqueda
Director, Professor
Geriatrics
UCI Medical Center
Laurence Mueller
Professor
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
University of California, Irvine
Karim Nader
William Dawson Chair
Psychology
McGill University
Hamid Najib
Personal Computer and Program Support Specialist
The National Academies
Robert M. Nerem
Parker H. Petit Distinguished Chair for Engineering in Medicine, Institute Professor and Director of the Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience
Georgia Institute of Technology
Greg O’Neill
Director
National Academy on an Aging Society
Santa Jeremy Ono
Vice Provost, Deputy Provost
Academic Initiatives
Emory University
Elaine Oran
Laboratory for Computational Physics
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
Steven Orzack
President and Senior Research Scientist
Fresh Pond Research Institute
Chris Patil
Postdoctoral Scholar
Life Sciences
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Hunter Peckham
Professor
Biomedical Engineering
Case Western Reserve University
Sara Peckham
Wellness Consultant
Margaret Perkinson
Associate Professor
Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy
Saint Louis University
Marty Perreault
Director
Sustainability Roundtable
Science and Technology for Sustainability Program
The National Academies
Daniel Perry
Executive Director
Alliance for Aging Research
Alissa Poh
Graduate Science Writing Student
Science Communication Program
University of California, Santa Cruz
Alan Porter
Evaluation Coordinating Consultant
Technology Policy and Assessment Center
Georgia Tech
Ismael Rafols
Marie-Curie Intra-European Research Fellow
University of Sussex
Shane Rea
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
James Rimmer
Professor/Director
National Center on Physical Activity and Disability
University of Illinois at Chicago
Dave Roessner
Evaluation Consultant
Keck Futures Initiative
The National Academies
Michael Rose
Professor
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of California, Irvine
Corinna Ross
Postdoctoral Fellow
Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies
University of Texas Health Science Center
John W. (Jack) Rowe
Executive Chair
Health Policy and Management
Columbia University
Donald Royall
MD/Chief: Division of Aging and Geriatric Psychiatry
Psychiatry, Medicine and Pharmacology
University of Texas HSC San Antonio
Khaled Saleh
Associate Professor, Orthapedic Surgery and Health Evaluative Sciences Division
Division Head and Fellowship Director, Adult Reconstruction
University of Virginia
Judith A. Salerno
Deputy Director
National Institute on Aging
National Institute of Health
Chris Schaffer
Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Cornell University
Nicholas Schork
Director of Research, Scripps Genomic Medicines, Scripps Health
Molecular and Experimental Medicine
Scripps Genomic Medicine, Scripps Health
Teresa Seeman
Professor
Division of Geriatrics/Department of Medicine
University of California, Los Angeles
Jerry Shay
Professor
Cell Biology
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Felipe Sierra
Director
Biology of Aging Program
National Institute on Aging
James Simpkins
Professor and Chair
Pharmacology & Neuroscience
University of North Texas Health Science Center
William Skane
Executive Director
Office of News & Public Information
The National Academies
Richard Sprott
Executive Director
Ellison Medical Foundation
Rob Stephenson
Assistant Professor
Hubert Department of Global Health
Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health
David Stopak
Recruiting Editor
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
The National Academies
Kimberly Suda-Blake
Program Director
Keck Futures Initiative
The National Academies
Richard Suzman
Director
Behavioral and Social Research Program
National Institute on Aging
National Institutes of Health
Mercedes Talley
Program Director
W. M. Keck Foundation
Michael Tannebaum
Graduate Science Writing Student
University of Georgia
Charlotte A. Tate
Dean
College of Applied Health Sciences
University of Illinois at Chicago
Heidi A. Tissenbaum
Associate Professor
Program in Gene Function and Expression
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Eric Topol
Director, Tranlslational Science Institute
Molecular and Experimental Medicine
The Scripps Research Institute
Michael Torry
Director
Biomechanics Research Laboratory
Steadman-Hawkins Research/Foundation
Iris Tse
Graduate Science Writing Student
Boston University
Ken Turteltaub
Senior Staff Scientist
Chemistry, Materials & Life Sciences
Lawrence LIvermore National Laboratory
Rachel VanCott
Graduate Science Writing Student
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Charles Vest
President
National Academy of Engineering
Helen Vlassara
Mount Sinai Professor in Diabetes and Aging
Division of Experimental Diabetes and Aging
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Ken Wachter
Professor and Chair
Demography and Statistics
University of California, Berkeley
Jonathan Wanagat
Senior Fellow/Acting Instructor
Gerontology & Geriatric Medicine
University of Washington
David J. Waters
Professor and Associate Director
Center on Aging and the Life Course
Purdue University
Molly Webster
Graduate Science Writing Student
New York University
Heinz-Ulrich G. Weier
Staff Scientist
Life Sciences Division
E.O. Lawrence Berkeley Natl. Laboratory
Mike Weinrich
Director
National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research
Mary White
Chief Epidemiology & Applied Research Branch
Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, CDC
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Catherine Wolkow
Tenure-track Investigator
Laboratory of Neurosciences
NIA IRP, NIH
Savio L-Y Woo
Whiteford Professor and Director
Musculoskeletal Research Center/Dept. of Bioengineering
University of Pittsburgh
Woodring Wright
Professor
Cell Biology
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Anatoli Yashin
Professor
Center for Population Health and Aging
Duke University
Carl Zimmer
Freelance Writer
Thomas Zimmerman
Research Staff Member
Computer Science NWE-B2
IBM Almaden Research Center
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative Conference Participants Complex Systems
November 12–15, 2008, Irvine, CA
Luis Amaral
Associate Professor
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Northwestern University
Ananth Annapragada
Associate Professor
Health Information Sciences
University of Texas Houston
Megan Atkinson
Program Associate
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
The National Academies
Craig Atwood
Associate Professor
Medicine
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Lajos Balogh
Professor of Oncology and Director of Nanotechnology Research
Radiation Medicine
Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Albert-László Barabási
Distinguished University Professor
Center for Complex Network Research,
Department of Physics
Northeastern University
Department of Medicine, Harvard University
Noah Barron
Reporter/Annenberg Graduate
University of Southern California
James B. Bassingthwaighte
Professor of Bioengineering and Radiology
Department of Bioengineering
University of Washington
Amy Bauer
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Theoretical Division
Los Alamos National Laboratory
John M. Beggs
Assistant Professor
Physics
Indiana University
Kirstie Bellman
Principal Director
Aerospace Integration Science Center
The Aerospace Corporation
Sally Blower
Professor
Semel Institute for Neuroscience & Human Behavior
David Geffen School of Medicine
University of California, Los Angeles
Stephen J. Bonasera
Assistant Professor
Division of Geriatrics, Department of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco
Edward Boyden
Benesse Career Development Professor
Media Lab, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Department of Biological Engineering
MIT
Alan Boyle
Science Editor
MSNBC.com Cassandra Brooks
Graduate Science Writing Student
University of California, Santa Cruz
Lizzie Buchen
Graduate Science Writing Student
University of California, Santa Cruz
Timothy G. Buchman
Edison Professor of Surgery, Professor of Anesthesiology and of Medicine
Department of Surgery
Washington University in Saint Louis
George Butler
President, Director, Producer
White Mountain Films
David K. Campbell
University Provost, Professor
Department of Physics and Electrical Engineering
Boston University
Tansu Celikel
Assistant Professor
Neurobiology
University of Southern California
Kee Chan
Assistant Professor
Health Sciences
Boston University
Fahmida N. Chowdhury
Program Director
Cross-Directorate Activities, Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences
National Science Foundation
Noshir S. Contractor
Jane S. & William J. White Professor of Behavioral Sciences
School of Engineering, School of Communication, and the Kellogg School of Management
Northwestern University
Jeffrey Cooper
Chief Innovation Officer
Intelligence, Security and Technology Group
SAIC
Anne-Marie Corley
Graduate Science Writing Student
MIT
Jennifer Couch
Chief
Structural Biology & Molecular Applications Branch
National Institutes of Health
Brian Creech
Graduate Scince Writing Student
University of Georgia
James Crutchfield
Professor of Physics,
Director, Complexity Sciences Center
Complexity Sciences Center and Physics Department
University of California at Davis
Barbara J. Culliton
President
The Culliton Group
Eugenio Culurciello
Assistant Professor
Electrical Engineering
Yale University
Peter Cummings
John Robert Hall Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
Vanderbilt University
Ana Diez Roux
Professor
Epidemiology
University of Michigan
Ramanand Dixit
Assistant Professor
Biology
Washington University in St. Louis
Raissa D’Souza
Associate Professor
Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering and Complexity Sciences Center
University of California, Davis
Jennifer Dunne
Research Fellow, Co-Director
Santa Fe Institute, Pacific Ecoinformatics and Computational Ecology Lab
Tuan Duong
Senior Researcher
Bio-Inspired Technologies and Systems Group
JPL/CIT
Rhonda Dzakpasu
Assistant Professor
Physics
Georgetown University
Nathan Eagle
Research Scientist
MIT/Santa Fe Institute
Nick Ellis
Professor
Psychology
University of Michigan
Veit Elser
Professor
Physics
Cornell University
Thierry Emonet
Assistant Professor
Molecular, Cellular, and
Developmental Biology Department
Yale University
Joshua Epstein
Senior Fellow & Director
Center on Social and Economic Dynamics
The Brookings Institution
Doyne Farmer
Professor
Santa Fe Institute
James Ferrell
Professor
Chemical and Systems Biology
Stanford University
Harvey V. Fineberg
President
Institute of Medicine
Susan Fitzpatrick
Vice President
James S. McDonnell Foundation
Daniel Fletcher
Associate Professor
Bioengineering
University of California, Berkeley
Richard Foster
Managing Partner
Millbrook Management Group, LLC
Board Member, W. M. Keck Foundation
Stuart Fox
Graduate Science Writing Student
New York University
Ken Fulton
Executive Director
National Academy of Sciences
James Gardner
Author and Attorney
Gardner & Gardner, Attorneys, PC
Murray Gell-Mann
Distinguished Fellow
Santa Fe Institute
James Glazier
Director, Biocomplexity Institute
Department of Physics
Indiana University
Nigel Goldenfeld
Professor
Department of Physics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Marta Gonzalez
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Northeastern University
Rebecca Goolsby
Program Officer
Human and Bioengineering Systems
Office of Naval Research
Elias Greenbaum
Corporate Fellow
Chemical Sciences Division
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Robert A. Greenes
Ira A. Fulton Chair and Professor
Biomedical Informatics
Arizona State University
Tony H. Grubesic
Assistant Professor
Geography
Indiana University
Martin Gruebele
Professor
Chemistry, Physics, Biophysics and Computational Biology
University of Illinois
Natali Gulbahce
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Center for Cancer Systems Biology
Dana Farber Cancer Institute;
Center for Complex Networks Research
Northeastern University
Ross Hammond
Fellow
Economic Studies
The Brookings Institution
John Hartman
Assistant Professor
Genetics
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Anne Heberger
Senior Evaluation Associate
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
The National Academies
Monica Heger
Graduate Science Writing Student
New York University
Sarah Heilshorn
Assistant Professor
Materials Science and Engineering
Stanford University
Jessica Hellmann
Assistant Professor
Biological Sciences
University of Notre Dame
Rigoberto Hernandez
Associate Professor
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Georgia Institute of Technology
Amy Herr
Assistant Professor
Bioengineering
University of California, Berkeley
Chen Hou
Postdoctoral Fellow
Santa Fe Institute
Paul Humphreys
Professor
Philosophy
University of Virginia
Alan J. Hurd
Director
Lujan Neutron Scattering Center at LANSCE
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Ted Jackson
Staff Photographer
The Times-Picayune
Barbara Jasny
Deputy Editor
Science/AAAS
George A. Kaplan
Thomas Francis Collegiate Professor of
Public Health
Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health/Dept. of Epidemiology
University of Michigan
Christopher Kello
Associate Professor
Cognitive Science
University of California, Merced
Don Kennedy
President Emeritus and
Bing Professor of Environmental Studies
Institute for International Studies
Stanford University
Editor in Chief Emeritus, Science
Chris Klausmeier
Assistant Professor
W. M. Kellog Biological Station
Michigan State University
Rob Knight
Assistant Professor
Chemistry & Biochemistry
University of Colorado Boulder
Stephen J. Kron
Associate Professor
Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology
The University of Chicago
Challa S. S. R. Kumar
Director
Nanofabrication & Nanomaterials
Center for Advanced Microstructures and Devices
Louisiana State University
Pradeep Kumar
Fellow
Center for Studies in Physics and Biology
Rockefeller University
Ying-Cheng Lai
Professor
Electrical Engineering
Arizona State University
Paul Laibinis
Professor
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Vanderbilt University
Arthur Lander
Professor
Developmental and Cell Biology
University of California, Irvine
James S. Langer
Professor
Department of Physics
University of California, Santa Barbara
Daniel Lathrop
Professor and Director
Physics and Geology
University of Maryland
David Lazer
Associate Professor
Harvard Kennedy School
Harvard University
Philip LeDuc
Associate Professor
Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering, and Biological Sciences
Carnegie Mellon University
Jennifer Lauren Lee
Graduate Science Writing Student
University of Southern California
Hadley Leggett
Graduate Science Writing Student
University of California, Santa Cruz
Rachel Lesinski
Program Associate
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
The National Academies
Brian Litt
Associate Professor
Neurology and Bioengineering
University of Pennsylvania
Wolfgang Losert
Associate Professor
Physics
University of Maryland
Stefan Maas
Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology
Biological Sciences
Lehigh University
Patricia L. Mabry
Behavioral Scientist/Health Science Administrator
Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR)
National Institutes of Health
Robert Marshall
Outdoor Recreation Editor
The Times-Picayune
Maia Martcheva
Associate Professor
Department of Mathematics
University of Florida
Jennifer Martiny
Associate Professor
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of California, Irvine
Davis Masten
Chair
Presidents’ Circle
The National Academies
Grant McCall
Assistant Professor
Anthropology
Tulane University
Susanne Menden-Deuer
Assistant Professor
Oceanography
University of Rhode Island
Saira Mian
Staff Scientist
Life Sciences Division
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
John Miller
Professor of Economics and
Social Science, Research Professor
Social and Decision Sciences
Carnegie Mellon University/Santa Fe Institute
Shayan Mookherjea
Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of California, San Diego
Cristopher Moore
Associate Professor
Computer Science Department, Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of New Mexico
Frederick Moxley
Director of Research for Network Science
U.S. Military Academy
Christopher Myers
Senior Research Associate
Computational Biology Service Unit/Biotechnology Center
Cornell University
Hamid Najib
Personal Computer and Program Support Specialist
The National Academies
Roger Narayan
Associate Professor
Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Michael J. North
Deputy Director
Center for Complex Adaptive Agent Systems Simulation
Argonne National Laboratory
Juan Ocampo
CEO and Founder
Trajectory Asset Management
Caitlin O’Connell-Rodwell
Assistant Professor (Consulting)
Otolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery
Stanford University
Maureen O’Leary
Director, Public Information
Office of News & Public Information
The National Academies
Panos Papadopoulos
Professor
Mechanical Engineering
University of California, Berkeley
Michael Leo Parchman
Associate Professor
University of Texas Health Science Center
South Texas Veterans Heatlh Care System
M. Elisabeth Paté-Cornell
Burt and Deedee McMurtry Professor and Chair
Department of Management Science and Engineering
Stanford University
Vimla L. Patel
Professor and Vice Chair, Biomedical Informatics
Director, Center for Decision Making and Cognition
Arizona State University
Joshua Plotkin
Assistant Professor
Department of Biology
University of Pennsylvania
Alan L. Porter
Evaluation Consultant
Technology Policy & Assessment Center
Georgia Institute of Technology
Richard Puddy
Behavioral Scientist
Division of Violence Prevention - Program Implementation and Dissemination
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Casey Rentz
Graduate Science Writing Student
University of Southern California
Aristides Requicha
Gordon Marshall Chair in Engineering
Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
University of Southern California
Luis Rocha
Associate Professor
Informatics
Indiana University
David Roessner
Evaluation Consultant
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
The National Academies
Stephen Ryan
President
Doheny Eye Institute
Board Member, W. M. Keck Foundation
Iraj Saniee
Director
Mathematics of Networks and Complex Systems
Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent
Jordan Sarver
Graduate Science Writing Student
University of Georgia
Herbert Sauro
Associate Professor
Department of Bioengineering
University of Washington
Michael A. Savageau
Distinguished Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering and Microbiology Graduate Group
University of California, Davis
Suzanne Scarlata
Professor
Physiology & Biophysics
Stony Brook University
Steven Schiff
Director, Center for Neural Engineering
Engineering Science and Mechanics, Neurosurgery, Physics
Penn State University
Mark Schleifstein
Environment and Conservation Reporter
The Times-Picayune
Eric Schwartz
Graduate Science Writing Student
Science Journalism Program
Boston University
Caterina Scoglio
Associate Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Kansas State University
William Skane
Executive Director
Office of News and Public Information
The National Academies
Peter Sloot
Professor
Computational Sciences
University of Amsterdam
Lisa Song
Graduate Science Writing Student
MIT
Olaf Sporns
Professor, Associate Chair
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Indiana University
H. Eugene Stanley
University Professor; Professor of Physics; Professor of Chemistry Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Professor of Physiology (School of Medicine); Director, Center for Polymer Studies
Department of Physics
Boston University
Dagmar Sternad
Professor
Department of Biology, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics
Northeastern University
Charles F. Stevens
Professor and Vincent J. Coates Chair in Molecular Neurobiology
Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory
Salk Institute
Gustavo Stolovitzky
Manager
Functional Genomics and Systems Biology
IBM Research
Kimberly Suda-Blake
Program Director
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
The National Academies
Dan Swenson
Staff Artist
The Times-Picayune
Mercedes Talley
Program Director
W. M. Keck Foundation
Jeffrey Toretsky
Associate Professor
Oncology
Georgetown University
Andreas Trabesinger
Senior Editor
Nature Physics
Jessika Trancik
Postdoctoral Fellow
Santa Fe Institute
Shyni Varghese
Assistant Professor
Bioengineering
University of California, San Diego
Alejandra C. Ventura
Research Fellow
Internal Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology and Comprehensive Cancer
University of Michigan
Alessandro Vespignani
Professor
Department of Informatics, Department of Physics, Department of Statistics
Indiana University
Andreas Wagner
Professor
Department of Biochemistry
University of Zurich
Joseph Wang
Associate Professor
Aerospace and Ocean Engineering
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Qian Wang
Associate Professor
Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of South Carolina
Douglas Weibel
Assistant Professor
Biochemistry
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Leor Weinberger
Assistant Professor, Pew Scholar
Chemistry & Biochemistry
University of California, San Diego
Joshua Weitz
Assistant Professor
School of Biology
Georgia Institute of Technology
John P. Wikswo
Gordon A Cain University Professor
Vanderbilt Institute for Integrative Biosystems Research and Education
Vanderbilt University
Alexandra Worden
Scientist/Assistant Professor
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
Lani Wu
Assistant Professor
Pharmacology & Systems Biology
University of Texas Southwestern
Larry Yaeger
Professor
Informatics
Indiana University
Muhammad H. Zaman
Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering and Institute of Theoretical Chemistry
The University of Texas at Austin
Mingjun Zhang
Associate Professor
Biomedical Program Engineering, Deptartment of Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative Conference Participants Synthetic Biology: Building on Nature’s Inspiration
November 19–22, 2009, Irvine, CA
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 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
Ph.D. Student, Graduate Research Associate
Virginia Bioinformatics Institute
Virginia Tech
Barry Canton
Founder
Ginkgo BioWorks
R. Alta Charo
Senior Advisor
Office of the Commissioner
Food and Drug Administration
Barry Canton
Founder
Ginkgo BioWorks
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 and 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 Reser ve University
Carla Koehler
Professor
Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of California, Los Angeles
Jane Kondev
Professoor 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
Postdoctoral Associate
Chemical Engineering
Massachussets Institute 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 Biongineering
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. Profesor
Chemistry; 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
Dept 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
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
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 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
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative Conference Participants Seeing the Future with Imaging Science
November 16–19, 2010, Irvine, CA
Rigoberto C. Advincula
Professor
Chemistry
University of Houston
Sima Bagheri
Professor
Civil & Environmental Engineering
NJ Institute of Technology
Richard A. Baird
Director, Division of Interdisciplinary Training
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Chandrajit L. Bajaj
Professor of Computer Sciences,
Comp. App. Mathematics Chair in Visualization
Computer Science & Mathematics
University of Texas at Austin
Robert S. Balaban
Scientific Director
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
National Institutes of Health
Harrison H. Barrett
Regents Professor of Optical Sciences Professor of Radiology
Professor of Applied Mathematics
College of Optical Sciences and Department of Radiology
University of Arizona
Robert J. Barretto
Biochemistry and Biophysics
Columbia University
Randy A. Bartels
Associate Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Colorado State University
Mark Bathe
Samuel A. Goldblith Assistant Professor of Applied Biology
Biological Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Shelley A. Batts
Postdoctoral Scholar
NIH NRSA Fellow
Otolaryngology and Bio-X
Stanford University
Stuart S. Berr
Professor of Research
Radiology
University of Virginia
Thomas Bifano
Director (and Professor)
Photonics Center (and Mechanical Engineering)
Boston University
Ali Bilgin
Assistant Professor
Biomedical Engineering
University of Arizona
Floyd E. Bloom
Professor Emeritus
Molecular and Integrative Neuroscience Department
The Scripps Research Institute
Stephen A. Boppart
Professor of Electrical Engineering, Bioengineering, and Medicine
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Liliana Borcea
Noah G. Harding Professor
Computational and Applied Mathematics
Rice University
DuBois Bowman
Associate Professor
Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
Emory University
Joseph E. Burns
Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor
Radiological Sciences
University of California, Irvine School of Medicine
Jordan Calmes
NAKFI Science Writing Scholar
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Owen T. Carmichael
Assistant Professor
Neurology
University of California, Davis
Supriya Chakrabarti
Professor
Astronomy
Boston University
Danny Ziyi Chen
Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
University of Notre Dame
Teng-Leong Chew
Director of University Imaging Resources
Director of Nikon Imaging Center
Cell and Molecular Biology
Northwestern University
Dennis W. Choi
Executive Vice President
Simons Foundation
Frank Chuang
Associate Director for Research
NSF Center for Biophotonics
University of California, Davis Medical Center
Miriam Cohen
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Cellular & Molecular Medicine
University of California, San Diego
Graham P. Collins
Freelance Science Writer/Editor
Richard S. Conroy
Program Director
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
National Institutes of Health
Barbara J. Culliton
President
The Culliton Group/Editorial Strategies
Ivan J. Dmochowski
Associate Professor
Chemistry
University of Pennsylvania
Nadia Drake
NAKFI Science Writing Scholar
Science Communication
University of California, Santa Cruz
Charles Elachi
Director
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Farouk El-Baz
Research Professor and Director
Center for Remote Sensing
Boston University
Emily Elert
NAKFI Science Writing Scholar
New York Univeristy
Alireza Entezari
Assistant Professor
Computer and Information Science and Engineering Department
University of Florida
Marna E. Ericson
Assistant Professor
Dermatology
University of Minnesota
Antonio Facchetti
Chief Technology Officer and Adjunct Professor
Chemistry
Polyera Corporation and Northwestern University
Joyce E. Farrell
Executive Director
Stanford Center for Image Systems Engineering
Stanford University
James A. Ferwerda
Associate Professor
Munsell Color Science Laboratory, Carlson Center for Imaging Science
Rochester Institute of Technology
David A. Fike
Assistant Professor
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Washington University
Harvey V. Fineberg
President
Institute of Medicine
Douglas P. Finkbeiner
Professor
Astronomy & Physics
Harvard University
Susan Fitzpatrick
Vice President
James S. McDonnell Foundation
Jason W. Fleischer
Professor
Electrical Engineering
Princeton University
Felice C. Frankel
Research Associate
Systems Biology
Harvard Medical School
Richard A. Frazin
Assistant Research Scientist
Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences
University of Michigan
Kenneth R. Fulton
Executive Director
National Academy of Sciences
Tia A. Ghose
Freelance Science Writer
Eric Gilleland
Project Scientist
Research Applications Laboratory
National Center for Atmospheric Research
Michael Glenn Easter
NAKFI Science Writing Scholar
New York Univeristy
Alyssa A. Goodman
Professor
Astronomy
Harvard University
Thomas J. Grabowski
Professor of Radiology and Neurology Director Integrated Brain Imaging Center Radiology
University of Washington
Scott T. Grafton
Director, UCSB Brain Imaging Center
Psychology
University of California, Santa Barbara
Ashley Grant
Graduate Student
Experimental Pathology
University of Texas Medical Branch
Cindy M. Grimm
Associate Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
Washington University in St. Louis
Mark A. Griswold
Associate Professor
Director of Magnetic Resonance Physics Research
Radiology
Case Western Reserve University
University Hospitals of Cleveland
George R. Hale
NAKFI Science Writing Scholar
Texas A&M University
Brian P. Hayes
Senior Writer
American Scientist
Daniel P. Holschneider
Associate Professor
Psychiatry & the Behavioral Sciences
University of Southern California
David M. Hondula
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Environmental Sciences
University of Virginia
Xiaoping Hu
Professor and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Imaging
Director, Biomedical Imaging Technology Center
Scientific Director, Center for Systems Imaging
Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical Imaging Technology Center Center for Systems Imaging
Georgia Tech
Emory University
Myrna E. Jacobson Meyers
Assistant Professor (research)
Wrigley Institute of Environmental Science MBBO
University of Southern California
Blake C. Jacquot
Member of Technical Staff
Advanced Detector and Nano Science Technologies
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Hamid Jafarkhani
Chancellor’s Professor
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of California, Irvine
Joseph J. Jankowski
Associate Vice President
Technology Management
Research and Technology Management
Case Western Reserve University
Andreas Jeromin
Associate Director
Banyan Biomarkers, Inc
Jeffrey Johnston
Senior Program Officer
W. M. Keck Foundation
Marcel Adam Just
D. O. Hebb Professor
Psychology
Carnegie Mellon University
Allan V. Kalueff
Assistant Professor of Pharmacology
Pharmacology and Neuroscience Program
Tulane University School of Medicine
Farzad Kamalabadi
Associate Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Illinois
Ana Kasirer-Friede
Associate Project Scientist
Medicine/Hematology-Oncology
University of California, San Diego
Daniel F. Keefe
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Minnesota
Cristen Kelly
Program Associate
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
Olga Khazan
NAKFI Science Writing Scholar
University of Southern California
Jennifer D. T. Kruschwitz
Principal Optical Coatings Engineer–President
JK Consulting
Matthew A. Kupinski
Associate Professor
Optical Sciences
University of Arizona
David S. Lalush
Associate Professor
Associate Department Head
Department of Biomedical Engineering
North Carolina State University
Linda J. Larson-Prior
Research Associate Professor
Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology
Washington University in St. Louis Medical School
Tod R. Lauer
Astronomer
National Optical Astronomy Observatory
Lincoln J. Lauhon
Associate Professor
Materials Science and Engineering
Northwestern University
Peter R. Lawson
Chief Technologist
NASA’s Exoplanet Exploration Program
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Philip R. LeDuc
Associate Professor
Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering, Computational Biology, Biological Science
Carnegie Mellon University
Mark W. Lenox
Director of Imaging
Texas A&M Institute for Preclinical Studies
Texas A&M University
Rachel Lesinski
Program Associate
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
Craig S. Levin
Professor
Radiology, Physics, and Electrical Engineering
Stanford University
Zhi-Pei Liang
Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
K. J. Ray Liu
Professor and Associate Chair
Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Maryland
Robert H. Lupton
Senior Research Astronomer
Astrophysical Sciences
Princeton University
John D. MacKenzie
Assistant Professor in Residence
Radiology and Biomedical Imaging
University of California, San Francisco
Anant Madabhushi
Associate Professor
Biomedical Engineering
Rutgers University
Mohammad H. Mahoor
Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Denver
Jonathan J. Makela
Associate Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Giovanni Marchisio
Principal Scientist
R&D
DigitalGlobe
J. Lawrence Marsh
Professor and Director
Developmental Biology Center
University of California, Irvine
Timothy P. McClanahan
Scientist
Astrochemistry Laboratory
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Carolyn C. Meltzer
William P Timmie Professor
Chair of Radiology
Associate Dean for Research Radiology
Emory University School of Medicine
Shalini Misra
Postdoctoral Fellow
Planning, Policy, and Design
School of Social Ecology
University of California, Irvine
Mahta Moghaddam
Professor
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of Michigan
Victoria Morgan
Assistant Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Vanderbilt University
Kyle J. Myers
Director
Division of Imaging and Applied
Mathematics
Office of Science and Engineering Laboratories
Center for Devices and Radiological Health U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Hamid Najib
IT Program and Support Specialist
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
Teri W. Odom
Associate Professor and Dow Chemical Company Research Professor
Chemistry
Northwestern University
Joseph A. O’Sullivan
Samuel C. Sachs Professor and Dean UMSL/WU Joint Engineering Program
Electrical and Systems Engineering
Washington University
Gregory M. Palmer
Assistant Professor
Radiation Oncology
Duke University Medical Center
Thrasyvoulos N. Pappas
Associate Professor & Associate Chair
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Northwestern University
Richard G. Paxman
Chief Scientist and Founder
Diversity Imaging Department
General Dynamics-Advanced Information Systems
Maria Pellegrini
Executive Director, Programs
W. M. Keck Foundation
P. Jonathon Phillips
Electronic Engineer
Information Technology Laboratory
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Rafael Piestun
Director, COSI-IGERT
Electrical Computer and Energy Engineering and Physics
University of Colorado Boulder
Lori Pindar
NAKFI Science Writing Scholar
University of Georgia
Robert B. Pless
Associate Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
Washington University
Steven G. Potkin
Brain Imaging Science Center
Director of Clinical Research
Professor
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
University of California, Irvine
Lisa A. Poyneer
Engineer
Optical Sciences (Physics) and Image and Signal Processing (Engineering)
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Amina A. Qutub
Assistant Professor
Bioengineering
Rice University
Andrew B. Raij
Post Doctoral Fellow
Department of Computer Science
University of Memphis
A. Ravishankar Rao
Research Staff Member
Computational Biology
IBM Research
Kathleen M. Raven
NAKFI Science Writing Scholar
University of Georgia
James M. Rehg
Professor
School of Interactive Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology
Rosalind Reid
Executive Director
Institute for Applied Computational Science
Harvard University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Emmanuel G. Reynaud
School of Biology and Environmental Science
University College Dublin
James E. Rhoads
Associate Professor of Astronomy
School of Earth and Space Exploration
Arizona State University
Bernice E. Rogowitz
Scientist
Texas Advanced Computing Center
The University of Texas at Austin
Bruce R. Rosen
Professor in Radiology at Harvard Medical School
Director, Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging
Department of Radiology
Massachusetts General Hospital
Keith Rozendal
NAKFI Science Writing Scholar
University of California, Santa Cruz
Emily C. Ruppel
NAKFI Science Writing Scholar
School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stephen Ryan
President, Doheny Eye Institute Grace Emery Beardsley Distinguished Professor in Ophthalmology
Board Member, W. M. Keck Foundation
Naoki Saito
Professor of Mathematics
Chair of Graduate Group in Applied Mathematics
Mathematics
University of California, Davis
Lyudmila A. Sakhanenko
Associate Professor
Statistics and Probability
Michigan State University
Philip J. Santangelo
Assistant Professor
Biomedical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Emory University
Suzanne Scarlata
Professor
Physiology & Biophysics
Stony Brook University
Mark J. Schnitzer
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Assistant Professor
Stanford University
Department of Biology
Department of Applied Physics
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Stanford University
Joshua W. Shaevitz
Assistant Professor
Physics and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics
Princeton University
Eero P. Simoncelli
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Professor, Neural Science, Mathematics & Psychology
New York University
Laura Smith
NAKFI Science Writing Scholar
University of Georgia
Allen W. Song
Professor of Radiology, Psychiatry and Biomedical Engineering
Director Brain Imaging and Analysis Center
Duke University Medical Center
Tomasz F. Stepinski
Professor
Department of Geography
University of Cincinnati
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
University of California, Irvine
Roma Subramanian
Graduate Science Writing Student
Texas A&M University
Kimberly Suda-Blake
Senior Program Director
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
Tanveer F. Syeda-Mahmood
Research Manager
Multimodal Mining for Healthcare
IBM Almaden Research Center
Phillip Szuromi
Supervisory Senior Editor
Science Magazine
Mercedes Talley
Program Director
W. M. Keck Foundation
Demetri Terzopoulos
Chancellor’s Professor of Computer Science
Computer Science Department
University of California, Los Angeles
Jerilyn A. Timlin
Principal Member of Technical Staff
Bioenergy and Defense Technologies
Sandia National Laboratories
Derek K. Toomre
Associate Professor
Cell Biology
Yale University School of Medicine
Kimani C. Toussaint
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Science and Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Andrew Tsourkas
Associate Professor
Bioengineering
University of Pennsylvania
Remy Tumbar
Research Scientist
Molecular Biology and Genetics
Cornell University
Kamil Ugurbil
Professor
Center for Magnetic Resonance Research
University of Minnesota
Paul Vaska
Scientist
Medical Department
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Rene Vidal
Associate Professor
Center for Imaging Science
Johns Hopkins University
Tom Vogt
Director Nanocenter
Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry
USC NanoCenter
University of South Carolina
Alexander Walsh
Assistant Professor of Opthalmology
Keck School of Medicine
University of Southern California
Jessika Walsten
NAKFI Science Writing Scholar
University of Southern California
Brian A. Wandell
Isaac and Madeline Stein Family Professor
Department of Psychology
Stanford University
Andrew Z. Wang
Assistant Professor
Radiation Oncology
University of North Carolina
Gordon X. Wang
Postdoctoral Fellow
Molecular and Cellular Physiology
Stanford University
Lihong V. Wang
Gene K. Beare Distinguished Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Washington University in St. Louis
Paul S. Weiss
Fred Kavli Chair in NanoSystems Science California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) Director
Distinguished Professor
CNSI and Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of California, Los Angeles
Emily White
NAKFI Science Writing Scholar
Texas A&M University
Patrick J. Wolfe
Associate Professor
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Department of Statistics
Harvard University
Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
Curtis Woodcock
Professor
Department of Geography and Environment
Boston University
Joseph A. Zasadzinski
Professor
Chemical Engineering and Materials
University of California, Santa Barbara
Hongkai Zhao
Professor
Mathematics
University of California, Irvine
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative Conference Participants Ecosystem Services: Charting a Path to Sustainability
November 10–13, 2011, Irvine, CA
Robyn Abree
Science Writing Scholar
University of Georgia
Joshua N. Adkins
Senior Staff Scientist
Biological Sciences Division
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Brian F. Allan
Assistant Professor
Entomology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Sandy J. Andelman
Vice President
Tropical Ecology, Assessment & Monitoring Network
Conservation International
Richard M. Anderson
Risk and Decision Scientist
Energy and Environment Directorate
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Camille M. Antinori
Academic Coordinator
Agricultural and Resource Economics
University of California, Berkeley
Shota Atsumi
Assistant Professor
Chemistry
University of California, Davis
David L. Bael
Graduate Research Assistant
Deptartment of Applied Economics
Institute on the Environment
University of Minnesota
Julia K. Baum
Assistant Professor
Biology
University of Victoria
Kamaljit S. Bawa
Distinguished Professor
Biology
Univeristy of Massachusetts Boston
John M. Beman
Assistant Professor
School of Natural Sciences
University of California, Merced
Elena M. Bennett
Assistant Professor
McGill School of Environment and Department of Natural Resource Sciences
McGill University
Genevieve Bennett
Ecosystem Marketplace
Will Bourne
Vice President, Editorial
Semi-Linear LLC
Kate A. Brauman
Global Landscapes Initiative Postdoctoral Fellow
Institute on the Environment
University of Minnesota
Cassandra M. Brooks
Marine Scientist and Freelance Science Writer
Independent/Freelance
Sylvie M. Brouder
Professor
Agronomy
Purdue University
Mark T. Brown
Professor & Director
Environmental Engineering Sciences
University of Florida
Sally Brown
Research Associate Professor
School of Forest Resources
University of Washington
David K. Campbell
Professor
Physics and Electrical Engineering
Boston University
Kimberly M. Carlson
School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
Yale University
Stephen R. Carpenter
S.A. Forbes Professor of Zoology
Director, Center for Limonology
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Clyde F. Casey
Ecosystem Services Theme Lead, Science and Decisions Center
U.S. Geographical Survey
Kee Chan
Assistant Professor
Health Sciences
Boston University
Wai Kin (Victor) Chan
Associate Professor
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Robin L. Chazdon
Professor
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of Connecticut
Joel E. Cohen
Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor
Laboratory of Populations
The Rockefeller University and Columbia University
David C. Cook
Senior Economist
South West Agricultural Region
Department of Agriculture and Food, Western Australia
Robert Costanza
University Professor of Sustainability
Director, Institute for Sustainable Solutions
Portland State University
Katherine D. Cowart
Science Writing Scholar
Texas Veterinary Medical Center
Texas A&M University
Christopher B. Craft
Duey Murphy Professor of Rural Land Policy
School of Public and Environmental Affairs
Indiana University
Barbara J. Culliton
President
The Culliton Group/Editorial Strategies
Janet A. Cushing
Biologist/Environmental Planner
Institute for Water Resources
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Gautam Dantas
Assistant Professor
Pathology & Immunology
Washington University School of Medicine
Francis L. de los Reyes
Associate Professor
Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering
North Carolina State University
Fabrice A. J. DeClerck
Professor of Landscape and Community Ecology
Division of Research and Development/Tropical Agriculture Programs
CATIE
Jessica A. Dempsey
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Geography
University of British Columbia
Amanda A. DeSantis
Leader - Sustainability Initiatives
Sustainable Growth Excellence Center
DuPont
Heida L. Diefenderfer
Senior Research Scientist
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science
Francie Diep
Science Writing Scholar
Science, Health and Environmental Reporting
New York University
Joel J. Ducoste
Professor
Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering
North Carolina State University
Anantha K. Duraiappah
Executive Director
International Human Dimensions Programme
United Nations University
Rose Eveleth
Science Writing Scholar
Science, Health and Environmental Reporting
New York University
Kathleen A. Farley
Assistant Professor
Geography
San Diego State University
Catherine M. Febria
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Chesapeake Biological Laboratory - UMCES
University of Maryland
David H. Festa
Vice President, West Coast and Land, Water, Wildlife
Program, Policy, Operations
Environmental Defense Fund (EDF)
Harvey V. Fineberg
President
Institute of Medicine
Susan Fitzpatrick
Vice President
James S. McDonnell Foundation
Jonathan A. Foley
Professor/Director
Institute on the Environment
University of Minnesota
Roxanne Ford
Program Director
W. M. Keck Foundation
Jimena Forero
Ph.D. Student
Biology
University of Puerto Rico
Alan J. Franzluebbers
Research Ecologist
Agricultural Research Service
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Valerie J. Fuchs
Water Resources Engineer
MWH Global
Kenneth R. Fulton
Executive Director
National Academy of Sciences
Gillian L. Galford
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
The Woods Hole Research Center
James L. Garrison
Associate Professor
Aeronautics and Astronautics/Environmental and Ecological Engineering
Purdue University
Andrea Ghermandi
Senior Associate Researcher
Department of Economics
Cà Foscari University of Venice, Italy
Tony Goldberg
Professor of Epidemiology
School of Veterinary Medicine
Department of Pathobiological Sciences
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Rebecca L. Goldman-Benner
Natural Resources Senior Associate
Enviornment and Rural Development
Inter-American Development Bank
Gayathri Gopalakrishnan
Environmental Scientist/Engineer
Energy Systems
Argonne National Laboratory
Patrick Goymer
Senior Editor
Nature
Kimberly A. Gray
Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Northwestern University
Diana S. Grigsby-Toussaint
Assistant Professor
Kinesiology and Community Health
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Judy J. Gunderson
Associate EH&S Environmental Director
The Environmental Technology Center
The Dow Chemical Company
Benjamin S. Halpern
Director, Research Biologist
Center for Marine Assessment and Planning
University of California, Santa Barbara
Steven N. Handel
Professor of Ecology and Evolution
Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources
Rutgers University
Anne Heberger Marino
Senior Evaluation Associate
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
Miroslav Honzak
Senior Advisor
Science and Knowledge
Conservation International
George Hornberger
Director, Vanderbilt Institute for Energy and Environment
Distinguished University Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Vanderbilt Institute for Energy and Environment
Vanderbilt University
Hillary B. Huffer
Student and NOAA GSP Fellow
Economics
ECU and NOAA
Jane Carter Ingram
Lead, Ecosystem Services
Global Conservation
Wildlife Conservation Society
Louise E. Jackson
Professor and Cooperative Extension Specialist
Department of Land, Air and Water Resources
University of California, Davis
Gary W. Johnson
Graduate Researcher
Ecoinformatics Collaboratory
Gund Institute for Ecological Economics
Peter M. Kareiva
Chief Scientist
The Nature Conservancy
Bonnie L. Keeler
Doctoral Student
Natural Resources Science and Management
Univerity of Minnesota
Sarah Jane Keller
Science Writing Scholar
University of California, Santa Cruz
Cristen A. Kelly
Associate Program Officer
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
Peter S. Kettlewell
Professor of Crop Physiology and Research Coordinator
Crop and Environment Research Centre
Harper Adams University College
Vilay H. Khandelwal
Science Writing Scholar
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
University of Southern California
Justin Kitzes
Ph.D. Candidate
Environmental Science, Policy and Management
University of California, Berkeley
Gerhard Klimeck
Director, Network for Computational Nanotechnology
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Network for Computational Nanotechnology
Purdue University
Carolyn Kousky
Fellow
Resources for the Future
Claire Kremen
Associate Professor
Environmental Sciences, Policy and Management
University of California, Berkeley
Kevin J. Krizek
Professor
Director of the Ph.D. Program
Academic Sustainability Coordinator
Planning and Design; Civil Engineering
University of Colorado
Douglas A. Landis
Professor
Entomology
Michigan State University
Meredith Lane
Board Director
Board on Environmental Change and Society
National Research Council
Richard G. Lathrop
Professor
Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources
Rutgers University
Ashley M. Latta
Science Writing Scholar
Philip Merrill College of Journalism
University of Maryland
Rachel Lesinski
Program Associate
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
Heather M. Leslie
Sharpe Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies and Biology
Center for Environmental Studies
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Brown University
Sarah E. Lester
Research Scientist and Program Manager
Sustainable Fisheries Group
Marine Science Institute and Bren School
University of California, Santa Barbara
Wei Liao
Assistant Professor
Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering
Michigan State University
Yiqi Luo
Professor
Botany and Microbiology
University of Oklahoma
Davis L. Masten
Distinguished Visiting Scholar
MediaX
Stanford University
Gregory M. Masters
Science Writing Scholar
Philip Merrill College of Journalism
University of Maryland
Kirk McAlpin
Science Writing Scholar
Georgia Sea Grant
University of Georgia
Abby McBride
Science Writing Scholar
Graduate Program in Science Writing
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
William H. McDowell
Professor
Natural Resources and the Environment
University of New Hampshire
Fernando A. Milano
Veterinarian, Master Science
Área de Recursos Naturales y Sustentabilidad, Dpto. Ciencias Biológicas
Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias
Universidad Nacional del Centro (National University)
Shalini Misra
Postdoctoral Fellow
Planning, Policy, and Design
School of Social Ecology
University of California, Irvine
Beth Marie Mole
Science Writing Scholar
University of California, Santa Cruz
Hal Mooney
Professor of Biology
Department of Biological Sciences
Stanford University
Emilio F. Moran
Distinguished Professor
Anthropology
Indiana University
Helene Morlon
Doctor
Center for Applied Mathematics
CNRS/Ecole Polytechnique, France
David A. Mortensen
Professor-Applied Ecologist
Ecology Inter College Program and Department of Crop and Soil Sciences
The Pennsylvania State University
Katrina Mullan
Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Fellow
Agricultural and Resource Economics
University of California, Berkeley
Suzanne P. Murphy
Researcher (Professor)
Cancer Research Center of Hawaii
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Seth C. Murray
Assistant Professor (Quantitative Genetics and Maize Breeding)
Department of Soil and Crop Sciences
Texas A&M University/Texas AgriLife Research
Shahid Naeem
Professor of Ecology and Chair
Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
Columbia University in the City of New York
Hamid Najib
Information Technology and Program Support Specialist
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
Roseanna M. Neupauer
Associate Professor
Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering
University of Colorado
Eduard T. Niesten
Senior Director
Conservation Stewards Program
Conservation International
Lydia P. Olander
Director of Ecosystem Services Program
Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions
Duke University
Gabriel P. Olchin
Biological Scientist
Office of the Science Advisor
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Jennifer K. O’Leary
Lead Scientist
OneReef
Diane E. Pataki
Associate Professor
Department of Earth System Science
University of California, Irvine
Maria Pellegrini
Executive Director, Programs
W. M. Keck Foundation
Stephen Polasky
Professor of Ecological/Environmental Economics
Department of Applied Economics
University of Minnesota
Alison G. Power
Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Cornell University
Thomas L. Rabaey
Research Agronomist
Agriculture Research and Technology
General Mills Inc.
Volker C. Radeloff
Forest and Wildlife Ecology
University of Wisconsin–Madison
James W. Raich
Professor
Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology
Iowa State University
Richard Ready
Associate Professor of Agricultural and Environmental Economics
Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology
Pennsylvania State University
Taylor H. Ricketts
Director
Gund Institute for Ecological Economics
University of Vermont
Penny K. Riggs
Assistant Professor
Animal Science
Texas A&M University
James A. Riggsbee
President
RiverBank Ecosystems
Adena R. Rissman
Assistant Professor
Forest and Wildlife Ecology
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Jean B. Ristaino
Professor and Director of Global Plant Health Internship Program
Plant Pathology
North Carolina State University
Bruce E. Rittmann
Regents’ Professor of Environmental Engineering
Director, Center for Environmental Biotechnology, Biodesign Institute
Biodesign Institute
Arizona State University
Robert J. Roehr
Journalist
Freelance: BMJ, Medscape, Scientific American Online, AAAS
Diego Rose
Professor
Department of Global Community Health
Tulane University
Todd V. Royer
Associate Professor
School of Public and Environmental Affairs
Indiana University
Keith Rozendal
Science Writing Scholar
Graduate School of Journalism
University of British Columbia-Vancouver
John D. Rummel
Director, Institute for Coastal Science and Policy
Institute for Coastal Science and Policy
East Carolina University
Osvaldo E. Sala
Julie A. Wrigley Chair and Foundation Professor
School of Life Sciences
Arizona State University
James Salzman
Mordecai Professor of Law
Nicholas Professor of Environmental Policy
Law School/Nicholas School of the Environment
Duke University
Jessica A. Sanderson
Manager, Sustainability and Product Stewardship
Energy & Sustainability
USG Corporation
Kathryn A. Saterson
Assistant Laboratory Director
National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Darius J. Semmens
Research Physical Scientist
U.S. Geological Survey
Sabina L. Shaikh
Lecturer & Senior Research Economist
Program on Global Environment
University of Chicago
Laura Smith
Science Writing Scholar
University of Georgia
Jennie C. Stephens
Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Policy
International Development, Community and Environment
Clark University
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
University of California, Irvine
David Stopak
Recruiting Editor
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Mary E. Stromberger
Associate Professor
Soil and Crop Sciences
Colorado State University
Kimberly A. Suda-Blake
Senior Program Director
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
Christina B. Sumners
Science Writing Scholar
Veterinary Integrative Biosciences
Texas A&M University
Ariana E. Sutton-Grier
AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow
Office of Habitat Conservation
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Scott M. Swinton
Professor
Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics
Michigan State University
Gary M. Tabor
Director
Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative
Center for Large Landscape Conservation
Mercedes Talley
Program Director
W. M. Keck Foundation
Berrin Tansel
Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Florida International University
Austin R. Troy
Associate Professor
Rubenstein School of Environmental and Natural Resources and Gund Institute
University of Vermont
B. L. Turner II
Gilbert F. White Professor of Environment and Society
School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning and School of Sustainability
Arizona State University
Kristina M. Twigg
Science Writing Scholar
Texas A&M University
Lisa A. Wainger
Research Associate Professor
Chesapeake Biological Lab
University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
Nathalie F. Walker
Manager, Tropical Agriculture, Forests and Climate Project
International Climate and Energy Program
National Wildlife Federation
Kelly Wendland
Conservation Social Sciences
University of Idaho
Paul K. Westerhoff
Professor (Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Engineering Program)
School of Sustainable Engineering and The Built Environment
Arizona State University
Cranos M. Williams
Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
North Carolina State University
Beth A. Winkelstein
Professor
Bioengineering
University of Pennsylvania
Heather E. Wright
Environment Program Officer
Environment Program
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Fengqi You
Assistant Professor
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Northwestern University
Stephen L. Young
Weed Ecologist
Agronomy & Horticulture
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Mark A. Zondlo
Assistant Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Princeton University
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative Conference Participants The Informed Brain in a Digital World
November 14–17, 2012, Irvine, CA
Dima Amso
Assistant Professor
Cognitive, Linguistic, & Psychological Science
Brown University
Giorgio A. Ascoli
University Professor
Molecular Neuroscience
George Mason University
Paul Atchley
Professor
Psychology
University of Kansas
Cynthia S. Atherton
Program Director
Science Program
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Lisa Aziz-Zadeh
Assistant Professor
Brain and Creativity Institute & Division of Occupational Science
University of Southern California
David Badre
Assistant Professor
Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences
Brown University
Richard G. Baraniuk
Victor E. Cameron Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Rice University
Carole R. Beal
Professor of Information Science Technology & Arts
School of Information Science
University of Arizona
C. Gordon Bell
Principal Researcher
Microsoft Research
Robert M. Bilder
Tennenbaum Family Chair of Creativity Research
Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Science
UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience & Human Behavior
Kim T. Blackwell
Professor
Molecular Neuroscience
George Mason University
Alison Bruzek
Science Writing Scholar
Graduate Program in Science Writing
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jose M. Carmena
Associate Professor
Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences; Neuroscience
University of California, Berkeley
Tara T. Cataldo
Biological/Life Sciences Librarian
Marston Science Library
University of Florida
Vinton G. Cerf
Chief Internet Evangelist
Research
Google, Inc.
Fahmida N. Chowdhury
Program Director
Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences
National Science Foundation
Ann E. Christiano
Frank Karel Endowed Chair in Public Interest Communications and Professor
College of Journalism and Communications
University of Florida
John-Paul Clarke
Associate Professor
Aerospace Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Mark Steven Cohen
Professor
Psychiatry, Neurology, Radiology, Psychology, Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical Physics
University of California, Los Angeles
Todd P. Coleman
Associate Professor
Bioengineering
University of California, San Diego
David C. Cook
Senior Economist
Department of Agriculture and Food
Government of Western Australia
Alan D. J. Cooke
Associate Professor
Marketing
University of Florida
Jana Craig Hare
Assistant Research Professor
Center for Research on Learning
University of Kansas
Carolyn Crist
Science Writing Scholar
Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication
University of Georgia
Barbara J. Culliton
President
The Culliton Group/Editorial Strategies
Robert J. Davenport
Associate Director, Brown Institute for Brain Science
Brown Institute for Brain Science
Brown University
Vincent De Sapio
Research Scientist
Information and Systems Sciences Laboratory
HRL Laboratories, LLC
John Doyle
Professor
Control and Dynamical Systems
California Institute of Technology
Nicole B. Ellison
Associate Professor
School of Information
University of Michigan
Harvey V. Fineberg
President
Institute of Medicine
Paul A. Fishwick
Professor
Computer and Information Science & Engineering
University of Florida
Dorothy Fleisher
Program Director
W. M. Keck Foundation
Roxanne Ford
Program Director
W. M. Keck Foundation
Chris Forsythe
Distinguished Member of Technical Staff
Cognitive Science and Applications
Sandia National Laboratories
Richard N. Foster
Lux Capital; Yale University
Joseph T. Francis
Assistant Professor
Physiology and Pharmacology
SUNY Downstate Medical School
Felice C. Frankel
Research Scientist
Center for Materials Science and Engineering
MIT
Kenneth R. Fulton
Executive Director
National Academy of Sciences
Adam Gazzaley
Associate Professor
Neurology, Psychiatry and Physiology
The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco
Michael S. Gazzaniga
Director
The Sage Center for the Study of the Mind
University of California, Santa Barbara
Apostolos Georgopoulos
Regents Professor and McKnight Presidential Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience
Brain Sciences Center
American Legion Brain Sciences Chair; Professor of Neuroscience, Neurology, and Psychiatry
Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Ricardo Gil da Costa
Salk Institute
Charles D. Gilbert
Arthur and Janet Ross Professor
Laboratory of Neurobiology
The Rockefeller University
Arnold L. Glass
Professor
Psychology
Rutgers University
Scott T. Grafton
Professor
Psychological & Brain Sciences
University of California, Santa Barbara
Robert A. Greenes
Ira A. Fulton Chair and Professor
Department of Biomedical Informatics
Arizona State University
Cathal Gurrin
SFI Stokes Lecturer
School of Computing
Dublin City University
David S. Hachen
Associate Professor
Sociology
University of Notre Dame
Todd F. Heatherton
Lincoln Filene Professor in Human Relations
Dartmouth College
Anne Heberger Marino
Sr. Program Associate
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
Matthew K. Henley
Ph.D. Candidate
Educational Psychology
University of Washington
Zahra Hirji
Science Writing Scholar
Graduate Program in Science Writing
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
David M. Hondula
Research Staff
Department of Environmental Sciences
University of Virginia
Amalia M. Issa
Professor and Chair and Director Health Policy and Public Health
Program in Personalized Medicine & Targeted Therapeutics
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia
Michael A. Keller
Ida M. Green University Librarian; Director of Academic Information Resources
Cecil H. Green Library
Stanford University
Cristen A. Kelly
Associate Program Officer
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
Steven Kotler
Director of Research
Flow Genome Project
Art Kramer
Director and Professor
Beckman Institute
University of Illinois
Shonali Laha
Associate Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Florida International University
Annie Lang
Distinguished Professor
Telecommunications, Cognitive Science
Indiana University
Kenneth M. Langa
Professor of Medicine
Internal Medicine and Institute for Social Research
University of Michigan
Eva K. Lee
Director, NSF-Whitaker Center for Operations Research in Medicine and HealthCare; Co-Director, NSF-I/UCRC Center for Health Organization Transformation; Professor, School of Industrial & Systems Engineering; Distinguished Scholar in Health
Georgia Institute of Technology
Jay Lee
Ohio Eminent Scholar and L.W. Scott Alter Chair Professor
School of Dynamic Systems
University of Cincinnati
Jin Hyung Lee
Assistant Professor
Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Bioengineering
Stanford University
Kalev H. Leetaru
Josie B. Houchens and University of Illinois Fellow
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Illinois
Mark W. Lenox
Director of Imaging
Imaging Core
Texas A&M Institute for Preclinical Studies
Rachel Lesinski
Program Associate
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
Jeffrey Liew
Associate Professor
Educational Psychology
Texas A&M University
John Linehan
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical Engineering
Northwestern University
Julie Linsey
Assistant Professor
Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering
Georgia Tech
Taosheng Liu
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Psychology
Michigan State University
Ning Lu
Associate Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
North Carolina State University
Wei Lu
Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering
University of Michigan
Jessica Luton
Science Writing Scholar
Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication
University of Georgia
Margaret Y. Mahan
Graduate Student
Biomedical Informatics and Computational Biology
University of Minnesota
Andreas Malikopoulos
Alvin M. Weinberg Fellow
Energy & Transportation Science Division
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Narayan B. Mandayam
Peter D. Cherasia Faculty Scholar and Professor of ECE
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Rutgers University
Gloria Mark
Professor
Department of Informatics, Interactive and Collaborative Technologies
Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences
University of California, Irvine
Dejan Markovic
Associate Professor
Electrical Engineering
University of California, Los Angeles
René Marois
Professor
Psychology
Vanderbilt University
Ulrich Mayr
Professor
Psychology
University of Oregon
Kirk McAlpin
Freelance Science Writer
John Devin McAuley
Associate Professor/Director, Interdisciplinary Cognitive Science Program
Psychology
Michigan State University
Todd J. McCallum
Associate Professor of Psychology
Psychological Sciences
Case Western Reserve University
David E. Meyer
Clyde Coombs Distinguished University Professor of Mathematical Psychology
Psychology/Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
University of Michigan
Nikki Mirghafori
Senior Research Scientist
International Computer Science Institute at Berkeley
Jacquelyn F. Morie
Senior Research Scientist
Institute for Creative Technologies
University of Southern California
Hamid Najib
Information Technology and Program Support Specialist
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
Clifford Nass
Thomas M. Storke Professor
Communication
Stanford University
Ani Nenkova
Assistant Professor
Computer and Information Science
University of Pennsylvania
Oded Nov
Assistant Professor
New York University-Polytechnic Institute
Meeko Mitsuko Karen Oishi
Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of New Mexico
Anthony C. Olcott
Scholar
Emerging Trends Center for the Study of Intelligence
Central Intelligence Agency
Paromita Pain
Science Writing Scholar
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
University of Southern California
Chris Palmer
Science Writing Scholar
University of California, Santa Cruz
Satinderpall S. Pannu
Section Leader for the Center for Micro- and Nano-Technology
Engineering
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Roy Pea
David Jacks Professor of Education and Learning Sciences; Director, H-STAR Institute
Graduate School of Education/H-STAR Institute
Stanford University
Maria Pellegrini
Executive Director, Programs
W. M. Keck Foundation
Kimberly F. Raab-Graham
Assistant Professor
Center for Learning and Memory
The University of Texas at Austin
Shriram Ramanathan
Associate Professor
Applied Physics
Harvard University
Adriane B. Randolph
Assistant Professor of Information Systems, KSU BrainLab Director
Information Systems
Kennesaw State University
Parthasarathy Ranganathan
HP Fellow
Hewlett Packard Labs
Ravishankar Rao
Research Staff Member
Computational Biology Center
IBM Research
Karin A. Remington
Chief Technology Officer
Arjuna Solutions
Matt Richtel
The New York Times
Anna W. Roe
Professor
Psychology
Vanderbilt University
Aviva Rutkin
Science Writing Scholar
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stephen Ryan
President, Doheny Eye Institute and Grace and Emery Beardsley Professor
Ophthalmology
Keck School of Medicine
University of Southern California
Paul Sajda
Professor
Biomedical Engineering
Columbia University
Terrence Sejnowski
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Francis Crick Professor
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Thomas Serre
Assistant Professor
Cognitive Linguistic & Psychological Sciences/Brain Institute
Brown University
Kelly Servick
Science Writing Scholar
University of California, Santa Cruz
Rina Shaikh-Lesko
Science Writing Scholar
Science Communication Program
University of California, Santa Cruz
Sam R. Sharar
Professor
Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
University of Washington School of Medicine
Jonathan Z. Simon
Associate Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering/Biology
University of Maryland, College Park
Eliot R. Smith
Chancellor’s Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Indiana University
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
University of California, Irvine
David L. Strayer
Professor of Psychology
Department of Psychology
University of Utah
Aaron D. Striegel
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Notre Dame
Kimberly A. Suda-Blake
Senior Program Director
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
Diane M. Sullenberger
Executive Editor
PNAS
National Academy of Sciences
Laura L. Symonds
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience; Undergraduate Neuroscience Director
Neuroscience
Michigan State University
Mercedes Talley
Program Director
W. M. Keck Foundation
Desney S. Tan
Principal Reseacher
Computational User Experiences
Microsoft Research
Ashley Taylor
Science Writing Scholar
New York University
Kelly Tucker
Science Writing Scholar
M.S. Program in Science & Technology Journalism
Texas A&M
Matthew A. Turk
Professor
Computer Science, Media Arts and Technology
University of California, Santa Barbara
Yalda T. Uhls
Researcher; Regional Director
Psychology
Children’s Digital Media Center@LA
University of California, Los Angeles
Common Sense Media
Clara H. Vaughn
Science Writing Scholar
Philip Merrill College of Journalism
University of Maryland
Anthony D. Wagner
Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
Psychology
Stanford University
Brian A. Wandell
Isaac and Madeline Stein Family Professor
Department of Psychology
Stanford University
Jun Wang
Research Assistant Professor
School of Information Studies
Syracuse University
Qi Wang
Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Columbia University
Brian Waniewski
Managing Director
Institute of Play
Jason M. Watson
Associate Professor
Psychology
University of Utah
Debra L. Weiner
Assistant Professor
Emergency Medicine
Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School
Aaron L. Williams
Graduate Researcher
Systems and Information Engineering
University of Virginia
Kate Yandell
Science Writing Scholar
Arthur L Carter Journalism Institute
New York University
Michelle Yeoman
Science Writing Scholar
M.S. Program in Science & Technology Journalism
Texas A&M
Byron M. Yu
Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering/Biomedical Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
Tian Zhang
Fellow in Hematology-Oncology
Medicine
Duke University Hospital
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative Conference Participants The Future of Advanced Nuclear Technologies: Building a Healthier and Safer Planet
November 14–17, 2013, Irvine, CA
Rodney M. Adams
Publisher
Atomic Insights
S. J. Adelstein
Paul C. Cabot Distinguished Professor of Medical Biophysics
Harvard Medical School
Joonhong Ahn
Professor
Nuclear Engineering
University of California, Berkeley
Nsikan Akpan
Science Writing Scholar
Science Communication
University of California, Santa Cruz
John S. Applegate
Executive Vice President for University Academic Affairs
Indiana University
Shahzeen Z. Attari
Assistant Professor
School of Public and Environmental Affairs
Indiana University
Jesse H. Ausubel
Director, Program for the Human
Environment The Rockefeller University
Yousry Y. Azmy
Professor & Department Head
Nuclear Engineering
North Carolina State University
Brandon P. Behlendorf
Senior Researcher
National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism
University of Maryland, College Park
Marissa Z. Bell
Graduate Student
Geography Department
SUNY University at Buffalo
Stephen T. Bell
Branch Head, Advanced Nuclear Reactor Design
Reactor Engineering Division, Code 08I
Office of Naval Reactors
Sujata K. Bhatia
Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies
Assistant Dean
Biomedical Engineering
Harvard University
Edward D. Blandford
Assistant Professor
Farris Engineering Center
University of New Mexico
Ronald L. Boring
Human Factors Principal Scientist
Human Factors, Control, and Statistics Department
Idaho National Laboratory
Keith S. Bradley
Sr. Nuclear Engineer-Technical Director
Nuclear Engineering
Argonne National Laboratory
Robert L. Brent
Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics, Radiology & Patholgy
Research, Genetics & Pediatrics
Thomas Jefferson University, duPont Hospital for Children
Robert J. Budnitz
Research Scientist
Robert Budnitz, private consultancy
Peter C. Burns
Massman Professor and Director
Civil & Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences, Chemistry & Biochemistry
University of Notre Dame
Carol J. Burns
Deputy Principal Associate Director
Science, Technology and Engineering
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Jeremy T. Busby
Senior Research Scientist
Nuclear Science and Engineering Directorate
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Albert Carnesale
Chancellor Emeritus and Professor
University of California, Los Angeles
Richard E. Carson
Professor
Diagnostic Radiology and Biomedical Engineering
Yale University
Benjamin M. Chase
Nuclear Engineer
Irradiation Testing
Idaho National Laboratory
Thomas B. Cochran
Consulting Senior Scientist and former Director of the Nuclear Program
Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. (NRDC)
Daniel G. Cole
Associate Professor and Interim Director of Nuclear Engineering
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
University of Pittsburgh
Graham P. Collins
Editor/science writer
Freelance
Jacinta C. Conrad
Assistant Professor
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
University of Houston
Lydia M. Contreras
Assistant Professor
Chemical Engineering
The University of Texas at Austin
Michael L. Corradini
Professor
Department of Engineering Physics
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Carolyn Crist
Science Writing Scholar
Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication
University of Georgia
Barbara J. Culliton
President
The Culliton Group/Editorial Strategies
Narasimhan Danthi
Program Director
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
National Institues of Health
Bruce B. Darling
Executive Officer
National Research Council/National Academy of Sciences
Joshua E. Daw
Research Scientist and Engineer
Irradiation Testing
Idaho National Laboratory
Anthony J. Di Pasqua
Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Pharmaceutical Sciences
University of North Texas System College of Pharmacy
Matthew T. Domonkos
Senior Research Physicist
Directed Energy Directorate
Air Force Research Laboratory
Georges El Fakhri
Professor of Radiology; Director, Ctr for Advanced Medical Imaging Sciences Radiology; Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
Massachusetts General Hospital; Harvard Medical School
Frederic H. Fahey
Immediate Past-President
Div of Nuclear Medicine/Molecular Imaging
Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
Michael T. Fasullo
Research Scientist and Associate Professor
Nanobioscience
Research Foundation for SUNY on behalf of College of Nanoscale Sciences and Engineering
Rachel Feltman
Science Writing Scholar
New York University
Audeen W. Fentiman
Professor, Associate Dean
Nuclear Engineering
Purdue University
R. Scott Fletcher
Senior Scientist
Applied Research and Methods
U.S. Government Accountability Office
Michael J. Fluss
Sr. Scientist
Materials Science
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
John J. Gantnier
Mechanical Engineering Group Supervisor
Engineering
Bechtel Power Corporation
Megan Garcia
Program Officer
Nuclear Security Initiative
William & Flora Hewlett Foundation
William A. Garner
Laboratory Coordinator, Office of the Deputy Director General
Nuclear Sciences and Applications
International Atomic Energy Agency
Elisabeth A. Gilmore
Assistant Professor
School of Public Policy
University of Maryland
Sundaresan Gobalakrishnan
Assistant Professor
Radiology
Virginia Commonwealth University
Julia R. Greer
Professor of Materials Science and Mechanics
Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Caltech
Patrick Hahn
Science Writing Scholar
Johns Hopkins University
Mark B. Halper
Journalist/Writer/Editor/Author/Blogger
Freelance
CBS, The Guardian, Weinberg Foundation
David J. Harris
PNAS
National Academy of Sciences
Anne Heberger Marino
Program Officer
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
Kathryn A. Higley
Professor and Head
Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Health Physics
Oregon State University
Seth A. Hoedl
Harvard Law School
John F. Holzrichter
President
Physical-Insights Associates
Jacob M. Hooker
Assistant Professor
Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging
Harvard Medical School/MGH
Kate Horowitz
Science Writing Scholar
AAP, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences
Johns Hopkins University
Peter Hosemann
Asst. Prof.
Nuclear Eng.
University of California, Berkeley
Hedvig Hricak
Chair
Department of Radiology
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Thomas H. Isaacs
E.O. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Visiting Scientist
Efstathios Karathanasis
Assistant Professor
Radiology and Biomedical Engineering
Case Western Reserve University
Cristen A. Kelly
Associate Program Officer
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
Annie B. Kersting
Director Glenn T. Seaborg Institute
Physical & Life Sciences
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Kevin J. Kramer
National Ignition Facility
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Alexa Kurzius
Science Writing Scholar
New York University
Jae W. Kwon
Director and Associate Professor
Center for Advanced Nuclear Technology and Micro Integrated Systems (CANTMIS)
University of Missouri–Columbia
Rachel Lesinski
Program Associate
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
Richard K. Lester
Japan Steel Industry Professor and Head
Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jason S. Lewis
Emily Tow Jackson Chair in Oncology, Vice Chairman for Research; Chief, Radiochemistry and Imaging Sciences
Department of Radiology
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Jie Lian
Associate professor
Mechanic, Aerospace & Nuclear Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Li Liu
Associate Professor
Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Wei Lu
Professor
Mechanical Engineering
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Digby D. Macdonald
Professor in Residence
Nuclear Engineering
University of California, Berkeley
Jyoti Madhusoodanan
Science Writing Scholar
Science Communication Program
University of California, Santa Cruz
Mark W. Maier
Distinguished Engineer
Electronic and Systems Division
The Aerospace Corporation
Annalisa Manera
Associate Professor
University of Michigan
Samuel S. Mao
Adjunct Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of California, Berkeley
Raymond P. Mariella
Senior Scientist
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Brad Marston
Professor
Physics
Brown University
Charles McCombie
President
Arius Association
Michael A. McDonald
Nuclear Medicine Resident
Nuclear Medicine
Johns Hopkins University
Martha L. Mecartney
Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering
Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering
University of California, Irvine
Richard A. Meserve
President
Carnegie Institution for Science
Catherine H. Middlecamp
Professor
Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Warren “Pete” Miller
TEES Distinguished Research Professor
Texas A & M University System
Amit Misra
Laboratory Fellow
Director, Energy Frontier Research Center
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Jessica Morrison
Science Writing Scholar
Jodi Murphy
Science Writing Scholar
Health and Medical Journalism
University Georgia
Hamid Najib
Information Technology and Program Support Specialist
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
William H. Newell
Executive Director
Association for Interdisciplinary Studies
Jessica M. Orwig
Science Writing Scholar
Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
Texas A&M University
Chris Palmer
Conference Summary Writer
National Cancer Institute
Maria Pellegrini
Executive Director, Programs
W. M. Keck Foundation
Mark T. Peters
Deputy Laboratory Director for Programs
Office of the Director
Argonne National Laboratory
Per F. Peterson
Professor
Nuclear Engineering
University of California, Berkeley
Todd E. Peterson
Associate Professor
Radiology and Radiological Sciences
Vanderbilt University
Bojan Petrovic
Professor
Nuclear and Radiological Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
David Petti
Fellow
Idaho National Laboratory
Jonathan K. Pokorski
Asst. Professor
Macromolecular Science and Engineering
Case Western Reserve University
Vikas Prakash
Professor
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Case Western Reserve University
Daniel A. Pryma
Assistant Professor of Radiology
Radiology
University of Pennsylvania
Kathleen L. Purvis-Roberts
Associate Professor of Chemistry & Environmental Science
W. M. Keck Science Department
Pitzer College
Shriram Ramanathan
Associate Professor
Applied Physics/Materials Science
Harvard University
William C. Regli
Associate Dean for Research; Professor of Computer and Information Science
Computer & Information Science
Drexel University
Robert Rosner
Professor
Science and Security Board
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Naveena Sadasivam
Science Writing Scholar
New York University
Natalia V. Saraeva
Nuclear Engineer
Nuclear Engineering
Argonne National Laboratory
Beth-Anne Schuelke-Leech
Senior Research Fellow
Energy From Thorium Foundation
Markus Schwaiger
Professor
Technische Universität München
Raymond J. Sedwick
Associate Professor
Aerospace Engineering
University of Maryland
Kelly Servick
Science Writing Scholar
Science
Aaron J. Simon
Group Leader: Energy
Atmosphere Earth and Energy Division
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Francis Slakey
Associate Director of Public Affairs
American Physical Society
Alexander H. Slocum
Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tanju Sofu
Department Manager
Nuclear Engineering Division
Argonne National Laboratory
Kumar Sridharan
Distinguished Research Professor
Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Nicholas St. Fleur
Science Writing Scholar
Science Communication
University of California, Santa Cruz
Marius Stan
Senior Computational Energy Scientist
Nuclear Engineering
Argonne National Laboratory
Susan M. Stevens-Adams
Cognitive Psychologist
Risk and Reliability Analysis
Sandia National Laboratories
Neal Stewart
Ivan Racheff Chair of Excellence Professor in Plant Molecular Genetics
Plant Sciences
University of Tennessee
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
University of California, Irvine
Kimberly A. Suda-Blake
Senior Program Director
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
Julie L. Sutcliffe
Associate Professor
Internal Medicine and Biomedical Engineering
University of California, Davis
Mark Sutton
Nuclear Fuel Cycle Program Leader (acting)
Energy Security Program
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Mitra L. Taheri
Hoeganaes Assistant Professor
Materials Science & Engineering
Drexel University
Yuan-Chuan Tai
Associate Professor; Director (Interim) of Radiological Chemistry and Imaging Laboratory
Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology
Washington University in St. Louis
Mercedes V. Talley
Program Director
W. M. Keck Foundation
Raymond Thornton
Vice Chair for Quality, Safety, and Performance Improvement
Department of Radiology
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Bernhard R. Tittmann
Professor
Engineering Science and Mechanics
The Pennsylvania State University
Pallavi Tiwari
Research Assistant Professor
Biomedical Engineering
Case Western Reserve University
Bao H. Truong
Reactor Safety Analyst
Reactor Safety and Analysis
TerraPower LLC
Izabela Tworowska
Chief Science Officer
RadioMedix Inc.; RITA Foundation Houston
Kenan Unlu
Professor and Director
Radiation Science and Engineering Center and Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering
Pennsylvania State University
Michael van Dam
Assistant Professor
Molecular & Medical Pharmacology
University of California, Los Angeles
Satish Viswanath
Research Assistant Professor
Biomedical Engineering
Case Western Reserve University
Alan Waltar
Senior Advisor (Retired)
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Wolfgang Weber
Chief, Molecular Imaging and Therapy Service; Director, Laurent and Alberta Gerschel Positron Emission Tomography Center
Department of Radiology
Sloan-Kettering Insitute for Cancer Research
Frank J. Wessel
Scientist (recall)
Physics and Astronomy
University of California, Irvine
Andrew S. Whittaker
Professor; MCEER Director
Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering
University at Buffalo
Paul P.H. Wilson
Professor
Engineering Physics
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Brian D. Wirth
Governor’s Chair Professor of Computational Nuclear Engineering
Nuclear Engineering
University of Tennessee
Chadwick L. Wright
Assistant Professor of Radiology
Department of Radiology, Division of Molecular Imaging and Nuclear Medicine
The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
Jianzhong Wu
Professor
Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering
University of California, Riverside
Julianne Wyrick
Science Writing Scholar
Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication
University of Georgia
Weian Zhao
Assistant professor
Pharmaceutical Sciences
University of California, Irvine
Steven J. Zinkle
Governor’s Chair
Department of Nuclear Engineering
University of Tennessee
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative Conference Participants Collective Behavior: From Cells to Societies
November 12–15, 2014, Irvine, CA
Ehab Abouheif
Associate Professor & Canada Research Chair
Biology
McGill University
Josh N. Adkins
Associate Division Director
Integrative Omics
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
J Arvid Ågren
Ph.D. Candiadate
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of Toronto
Shawn Alter
Science Writing Scholar
Molecular & Systems Pharmacology Program
Emory University
Edward Archer
Research Fellow
Nutrition Obesity Research Center
University of Alabama, Birmingham
Treena L. Arinzeh
Professor
Biomedical Engineering
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Kevin Arnold
Program Officer
Life Sciences and Genetics
John Templeton Foundation
Robert H. Austin
Professor of Physics
Physics
Princeton University
Gabor Balazsi
Henry Laufer Endowed Associate Professor of Physical & Quantitative Biology
Laufer Center for Physical & Quantitative Biology and Department of Biomedical Engineering
Stony Brook University
Kevin E. Bassler
John and Rebecca Moores Professor of Physics and Mathematics
Physics
University of Houston
Bahareh Behkam
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Eng/Biomedical Eng. & Sci.
Virginia Tech
Yehuda Ben-Shahar
Assistant Professor of Biology
Biology
Washington University in St. Louis
Anamaria Berea
Research Associate
Center for Complexity in Business
University of Maryland
Mina J. Bissell
Distinguished Scientist
Life Sciences Division
E.O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Guy Bloch
Chair, Dept. of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior
Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Sarah F. Brosnan
Associate Professor
Psychology & Philosophy, Neuroscience Institute
Georgia State University
Sara E. Carney
Science Writing Scholar
Veterinary Integrative Biosciences
Texas A&M
Matteo Cavaliere
Research Associate
School of Informatics
University of Edinburgh
Danny Z. Chen
Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
University of Notre Dame
Fahmida N. Chowdhury
Program Director
Multidisciplinary Activities, Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences
National Science Foundation
Joel E. Cohen
Abby Rockefeller Mauze Professor of Populations
Laboratory of Populations
Rockefeller University & Columbia University
Itai Cohen
Associate Professor
Physics
Cornell University
Todd P. Coleman
Associate Professor
Bioengineering
University of California, San Diego
Richard S. Conroy
Director of the Division of Applied Science and Technology
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
Lydia M. Contreras
Assistant Professor
Chemical Engineering/Cell Molecular Biology
The University of Texas at Austin
Karen S. Cook
Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor of Sociology
Department of Sociology
Stanford University
Chelsey B. Coombs
Science Writing Scholar
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Iain D. Couzin
Professor
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Princeton University
Margaret C. Crofoot
Assistant Professor
Anthropology
University of California, Davis
Barbara J. Culliton
President
The Culliton Group/Editorial Strategies
Harry Dankowicz
Professor of Mechanical Science and Engineering
Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Bruce B. Darling
Executive Officer
National Research Council/National Academy of Sciences
Frans B. M. de Waal
C.H. Candler Professor of Primate Behavior
Psychology Department
Emory University
Delphine Dean
Gregg-Graniteville Associate Professor
Bioengineering
Clemson University
Dennis E. Discher
Robert D Bent Professor
Chemical & Biomolecular Eng’g; Physics Grad Group
University of Pennsylvania
Maria R. D’Orsogna
Associate Professor
Mathematics
CSUN
Joseph D. Dougherty
Assistant Professor
Dept of Genetics, Dept of Psychiatry
Washington University
John C. Doyle
Jean-Lou Chameau Professor of Control and Dynamical Systems, EE, and BioEng
Control and Dynamical Systems, EE, and BE
Caltech
Nadia Drake
Science Journalist
William W. Driscoll
Postdoctoral Researcher
Ecology, Evolution and Behavior
University of Minnesota
Thierry Emonet
Associate Professor
Molecular Cellular and Develomental Biology & Physics
Yale University
Sarah E. Evans
Deputy Cultural Affairs Officer
Public Affairs Section
U.S. Department of State
William F. Fagan
Professor and Chair
Department of Biology
University of Maryland
Stephen M. Fiore
Associate Professor
Philosophy and Institute for Simulation & Training
University of Central Florida
Richard N. Foster
Lux Capital; Yale University
Jeffrey J. Fredberg
Professor of Bio-engineering and Physiology
Environmental Health
Harvard School of Public Health
Justin Gallivan
Program Manager
Biological Technologies Office
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Tim Gernat
Ph.D. Student
Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Kingshuk Ghosh
Associate Professor
Physics and Astronomy
University of Denver
Nigel Goldenfeld
Professor of Physics
Loomis Laboratory
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Michael D. Goodisman
Associate Professor
Biology
Georgia Tech
Charles J. Goodnight
Professor
Biology
University of Vermont
Deborah M. Gordon
Professor
Dept of Biology
Stanford University
Tyrone W.A. Grandison
CEO
Technology
Proficiency Labs
Warren L. Grayson
Assistant Professor
Biomedical Engineering
Johns Hopkins University
Michael Greshko
Science Writing Scholar
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Christina M Grozinger
Professor of Entomology; Director of the Center for Pollinator Research
Entomology Department
Pennsylvania State University
Brian K. Hammer
Associate Professor
School of Biology
Georgia Institute of Technology
Glenn Hampson
Executive Director
National Science Communication Institute (nSCI)
Florence P. Haseltine
Emerita Scientist
National Institutes of Health
Mark E. Hauber
Professor
Psychology
Hunter College, City University of New York
Anne Heberger Marino
Program Officer
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
Andrew M. Hein
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Princeton University
Hans A. Hofmann
Associate Professor
Integrative Biology
The University of Texas at Austin
Rob Horsch
Deputy Director
Agricultural Development
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Chen Hou
Assistant professor
Biological Sciences
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Fushing Hsieh
Professor
Statistics
University of California, Davis
David Hughes
Assistant Professor
Entomology and Biology
The Pennsylvania State University
Alan J. Hurd
Physicist
Science, Technology, and Engineering
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Oleg A. Igoshin
Associate Professor
Bioengineering
Rice University
Katharine M. Jack
Associate Professor
Anthropology
Tulane University
Barbara R. Jasny
Deputy Editor for Commentary
Editorial
Science/AAAS
Lindsey Johnston
Science Writing Scholar
University of Georgia
Lyndon A. Jordan
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Integrative Biology
The University of Texas at Austin
Cristen A. Kelly
Associate Program Officer
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
Carla Koehler
Professor
Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of California, Los Angeles
Hanna Kokko
Professor
Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies
University of Zurich
Amy A. Kruse
Vice President of Innovation
Intific
Challa Kumar
Director, Nanomaterials and Nanofabrication
Center for Advanced Micro structures and Devices (CAMD)
Louisiana State University
Maureen Langlois
Science Communicator
Freelance
Philip R. LeDuc
Professor
Departments of Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Computational Biology
Carnegie Mellon University
Kalev H. Leetaru
Yahoo! Fellow of the Global Internet
ISD/School of Foreign Service
Georgetown University
Rachel Lesinski
Program Associate
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
Liliana B. Lettieri
Postdoctoral Associate
Zoology
Michigan State University
Joel D. Levine
Associate Professor
Biology
University of Toronto Mississauga
Sarah Lewin
Science Writing Scholar
New York University
Ping-I Lin
Assistant Professor
Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Timothy A. Linksvayer
Assistant Professor
Biology
University of Pennsylvania
Wolfgang Losert
Professor
Physics
University of Maryland
David K. Lubensky
Associate Professor
Physics
University of Michigan
Claudia Lutz
Science Writing Scholar/Media Communications Specialist
Institute for Genomic Biology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Claire Maldarelli
Science Writing Scholar
New York University
Stephen Marcus
Epidemiologist and Program Director, Social and Behavioral Modeling Research Program
Division of Biomedical Technology, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology
National Institute of General Medical Sciences, National Institutes of Health
Gloria J. Mark
Professor
Informatics
University of California, Irvine
Ichiro Matsumura
Associate Professor of Biochemistry
Biochemistry
Emory University School of Medicine
Chris McGee
Science Writing Scholar
University of Georgia
Lisa A. McGraw
Assistant Professor
Biological Sciences
North Carolina State University
Shelie A. Miller
Associate Professor
School of Natural Resources and Environment
University of Michigan
Mustafa A. H. Mir
Postdoctoral Fellow
California Institute of Regenerative Medicine
University of California, Berkeley
Jacob A. Moorad
Lecturer
Institute of Evolutionary Biology
University of Edinburgh
Floria Mora-Kepfer Uy
Research Assistant Professor
Biology
University of Miami
Corrie S. Moreau
Associate Curator
Department of Science and Education
Field Museum of Natural History
Thomas Mueller
Junior Professor
Biodiversity and Climate Research Center (BiK-F)
Lilianne R. Mujica-Parodi
Associate Professor
Biomedical Engineering
Stony Brook University
Ziad W. Munson
Associate Professor of Sociology
Department of Sociology & Anthropology
Lehigh University
Julie R. Murrell
R&D Manager, Collaboration Manager
Stem Cell Bioprocessing
EMD Millipore
Karim Nader
James McGill Chair
Psychology
McGill University
Oded Nov
Associate Professor
School of Engineering
New York University
Siobhan O’Brien
College of Life and Environmental Sciences
University of Exeter
LeighAnne Olsen
Senior Program Officer
Gulf Research Program
National Academies
Godfrey Onime
Science Writing Scholar
Johns Hopkins University
Nicholas T. Ouellette
Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Yale University
Ioannis Paschalidis
Professor and Distinguished Faculty Fellow
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Boston University
Theodore P. Pavlic
Associate Research Scientist
School of Life Sciences
Arizona State University
Maria Pellegrini
Executive Director, Programs
W. M. Keck Foundation
Noa Pinter-Wollman
Assistant Research Scientist
BioCircuits Institute
University of California, San Diego
David C. Queller
Spencer T. Olin Professor
Dearptment of BIology
Washington University in St. Louis
Adrien Querbes
Postdoctoral fellow
Social and Decision Sciences
Carnegie Mellon University
Yahya Rahmat-Samii
Northrop Grumman Professor
Electrical Engineering Department
University of California, Los Angeles
Srilakshmi Raj
Postdoctoral Fellow
Molecular Biology and Genetics
Cornell University
William C. Ratcliff
Assistant Professor
Biology
Georgia Institute of Technology
Aristides Requicha
Gordon Marshall Chair in Engineering
Computer Science
USC
Gene E. Robinson
Director, Institute for Genomic Biology and Swanlund Chair of Entomology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Luis M. Rocha
Professor
School of Informatics and Computing
Indiana University
Kelly A. Rooker
Graduate Research Fellow
Mathematics
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Dustin R. Rubenstein
Associate Professor
Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology
Columbia University
Naoki Saito
Professor
Mathematics
University of California, Davis
Iraj Saniee
Director
Mathematics of Networks and Systems
Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent
Anand D. Sarwate
Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Sarah Schwartz
Science Writing Scholar
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Daniel Segre
Associate Professor
Biology, Biomedical Engineering, Physics, Bioinformatics
Boston University
Blanka Sharma
Assistant Professor
Biomedical Engineering
University of Florida
Wenying Shou
Associate Member
Basic Sciences
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Marla B. Sokolowski
University Professor
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of Toronto
Vanessa Sperandio
Professor
Microbiology
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Ashlynn S. Stillwell
Assistant Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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
University of California, Irvine
Joan E. Strassmann
Professor
Department of Biology
Washington University
Claire Sturgeon
Media Communications Specialist
Institute for Genomic Biology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Kimberly A. Suda-Blake
Senior Program Director
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
Diane M. Sullenberger
Executive Editor
PNAS
National Academy of Sciences
Boleslaw K. Szymanski
Claire and Roland Schmitt Distinguished Professor
Computer Science and Cognitive Science
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Mercedes V. Talley
Program Director
W. M. Keck Foundation
Stacey R. Tecot
Assistant Professor
School of Anthropology
University of Arizona
Guy Theraulaz
Research Director
Centre de Recherches sur la Cognition Animale
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Christopher N. Topp
Assistant Member and Princpal Investigator
Topp Lab
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
James Urton
Science Writing Scholar
University of California, Santa Cruz
Jeremy Van Cleve
Assistant Professor
Biology
University of Kentucky
Elizabeth Van Volkenburgh
Professor
Biology
University of Washington
Jennifer Vanos
Assistant Professor
Department of Geosciences
Texas Tech University
Raffaele Vardavas
Mathematician
RAND
Nicholas C. Weiler
Science Writing Scholar
University of California, Santa Cruz
Joshua S. Weitz
Associate Professor
School of Biology and Physics
Georgia Institute of Technology
Daniel K. Wells
Graduate Student
Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
Northwestern University
Timothy E. Weninger
Assistant Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
University of Notre Dame
Douglas White
Science Writing Scholar
Georgia Institute of Technology
Eva C. Wikberg
Postdoctoral Fellow
Integrated Biosciences
University of Tokyo
Mingming Wu
Associate Professor
Biological and Environmental Engineering
Cornell University
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative Conference Participants Art, Design and Science, Engineering and Medicine Frontier Collaborations: Ideation, Translation, Realization
November 11–14, 2015, Irvine, CA
Mariana Amatullo
Co-Founder and Vice President, Pasadena Art Center College of Design
Design and Innovation Fellow, Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University
Scott M. Auerbach
Full Professor/Director
Chemistry/Integrated Concentration in Science
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Lise Autogena
Professor of Cross-Disciplinary Art
The Cultural Communication and Computing Research Institute (C3RI)
Sheffield Hallam University
Brandon Ballengee
Postdoctoral Researcher
Biological Sciences
Louisiana State University
Bill Barclay
Director of Music
Music
Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre
Philip Beesley
Professor
Living Architecture Systems Group in assc. with University of Waterloo
Jonathan Berger
The Denning Family Provostial Professor in Music
Department of Music
Stanford University
Visar S. Berisha
Assistant Professor
Speech and Hearing Science
Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering
Arizona State University
Mina J. Bissell
Distinguished Scientist
Life Sciences Division
E.O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Joelle Bitton
Doctor of Design Candidate
Graduate School of Design
Harvard University
Jeffrey R. Blum
Ph.D. Student
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
McGill University
Katy Borner
Victor H. Yngve Professor of Information Science
ILS/CNS
Indiana University
Naomi Bragin
University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow (UC Riverside), Assistant Professor (University of Washington Bothell)
English
University of California, Riverside
Marc Bretillot
Food Designer
Ian P. Brunswick
Programme Manager
Science Gallery
Karen JL. Burg
Harbor Lights Endowed Chair
University of Georgia
Asa Calow
Director
MadLab (Manchester Digital Laboratory)
David K. Campbell
Professor of Physics, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Materials Science and Engineering
Boston University
Beth Cardier
Storyteller, Narrative Structure Modeler
Research
Sirius-Beta Inc.
Niccolo Casas
Designer, Architect, Professor
Architecture Department
Rhode Island School of Design
Lydia Chain
Science Writing Scholar
New York University
Kee Chan
Principal Investigator
Daniel H. Chitwood
Assistant Member
Donald Danforth Plant Sciences Center
Lisa Chong
Senior Editor
Science Magazine
Itai Cohen
Associate Professor
Physics
Cornell University
Mark S. Cohen
Professor-in-Residence
Psychiatry, Psychology, Neurology, Bioengineering, Radiology, Biomedical Physics
University of California, Los Angeles
Vanessa Cox
Science Writing Scholar
School of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Georgia Institute of Technology
James P. Crutchfield
President
Art and Science Laboratory
Barbara J. Culliton
President
The Culliton Group/Editorial Strategies
Virginia A. Davis
Alumni Professor and Graduate Program Chair
Department of Chemical Engineering
Auburn University
Joe Day
design faculty/principal
SCI-Arc/deegan-day design llc
Tom De Blasis
Founder
(tbd) collective
Daniela de Paulis
Artist and Lecturer
Dhruba Deb
Postdoctoral researcher
Hamon Center for Therapeutic Oncology Research
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Sydney Devine
Science Writing Scholar
University of Georgia
Heather Dewey-Hagborg
Assistant Professor
Art and Technology Studies School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Genevieve Dion
Associate Professor
Design
Drexel University
Nadia Drake
Science Journalist
Melanie Dreyer-Lude
Assistant Professor
Theatre and Dance
Missouri State University
David A. Edwards
Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Idea Translation; Core Member, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering; Founder and Director, Le Laboratoire in Paris, France and Cambridge (USA); Faculty Associate, Center for Nanoscale Systems
Harvard University
Magda El Zarki
Professor
Computer Science
University of California, Irvine
Sarah E. Evans
Assistant Professor
Kellogg Biological Station, Integative Biology, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
Michigan State University
Rachel D. Field
Harvard University
Jonathan D. Fineberg
Visiting Distinguished Prof - UCI; Gutgsell Prof. Emeritus
University of Illinois
Kevin Finneran
Director, Committee on Science, Enginnering and Public Policy
The National Academies
Carrie Fitzsimmons
Executive Director
Le Laboratoire Cambridge
Albert Folch
Associate Professor
Bioengineering Department
University of Washington
Katherine Ellen Foley
Science Writing Scholar
Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program (SHERP)
New York University
Kenneth R. Fulton
Executive Director
National Academy of Sciences
Ken Goldberg
Professor
IEOR, EECS, and Art Practice
UC Berkeley
Dan Goods
Co-Founder
Museum of Awe
Jennifer Hackett
Science Writing Scholar
New York University
Laurel Hamers
Science Writing Scholar
University of California, Santa Cruz
Graham Harwood
Centre for Cultural Studies, GoldsmithsYoha
Florence P. Haseltine
Emerita Scientist
National Institutes of Health
Anne Heberger Marino
Program Officer
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
Eric J. Heller
Professor of Chemistry and Physics
Department of Chemistry
Harvard University
Thomas Holland
Web Specialist/PC Analyst
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
Donald Ingber
Director Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University; Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology, Harvard Medical School & Vascular Biology Program, Boston Children’s Hospital
Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology, Harvard Medical School & Professor of Bioengineering, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Harvard University
Petr Janata
Professor
Center for Mind and Brain
University of California, Davis
Lekelia D. Jenkins
Assistant Professor
School for the Future of Innovation in Society
Arizona State University
Pamela L. Jennings
Executive Director
Center for Design Innovation
Teresa L. Johnson
Science Writing Scholar
Johns Hopkins University
George A. Kaplan
Thomas Francis Jr. Emeritus Collegiate Professor of Public Health
Epidemiology
University of Michigan
Daniel Keefe
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
University of Minnesota
Cristen A. Kelly
Associate Program Officer
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
Youngmoo E. Kim
Director and Associate Professor (Electrical & Computer Engineering)
ExCITe Center
Drexel University
Hannes Koch
Artist/Designer
Random International
Brian A. Korgel
Edward S. Hyman Endowed Chair in Engineering & T. Brockett Hudson Professor of Chemical Engineering
Chemical Engineering
The Unviersity of Texas at Austin
Gail Koshland
Allison N. Kudla
Senior Communications Designer
Communications Institute for Systems Biology
Jeffrey T. La Belle
Assistant Professor
Biomedical Engineering
Arizona State Unviersity
Jay B. Labov
Senior Advisor for Education and Communication
Board on Life Sciences and Division on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Carol J. LaFayette
Professor; Director, Institute for Applied Creativity; SEAD network
Visualization
Texas A&M University
Misia Landau
Science Writer/former Visiting Scholar
Independent
Wyss Institute
Kiju Lee
Assistant Professor
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Case Western Reserve University
Adam Leeb
Cofounder
Astrohaus Inc.
Patrice Legro
Director
Marian Koshland Science Museum
Valerie J. Leppert
Assoc. Professor
School of Engineering
University of California, Merced
Liz A. Lerman
Faculty
School of Film, Dance, and Theatre
Arizona State University
Rachel Lesinski
Program Associate
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
Caroline Levander
Vice President Strategic Initiatives & Digital Education, Professor
English, Vice President
Rice University
Martha W. Lewis
Visual Artist
N/AN/A
Margaret G. MacDonald
Curatorial Practice
Maryland Institute College of Art
Tricia MacKenzie
Executive Director and Founder
Inter Space
Roger Malina
School of ATEC
The University of Texas at Dallas
Stephen Marcus
Chair, Department of Public Health and Advanced Studies in Public Health Program
Foundation for Advanced Education in the Sciences (FAES) Graduate School
National Institutes of Health
Iveliz Martel
Science Writing Scholar
Texas A&M University
Aaron Marx
Artist/Architect
Architecture
University of Minnesota
David Mascarenas
R&D Engineer
Engineering Institute
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Rachel Mayeri
Artist and Professor of Media Studies
Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts
Harvey Mudd College
Amy McDermott
Science Writing Scholar
University of California, Santa Cruz
Robyn Metcalfe
Director
Food+City @ The University of Texas at Austin
Schaefer Mitchell
Graduate Student
Department of Visualization
Texas A&M University
Roberto Molar Candanosa
Science Writing Scholar
Texas A&M University
Kevin J. Morris
Science Writing Scholar
Emory University
William O’Brien
Senior Advisor for Innovation to the Chairman
Office of the Chairman
National Endowment for the Arts
Daniel B. Oerther
John A. and Susan Mathes Chair of Environmental Health Engineering
Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Joe Palca
Correspondent
National Public Radio
Jennifer Parker
Associate Professor, Chair
Art Department and Digital Art and New Media Program
University of California, Santa Cruz
Christina Patrick
Science Writing Scholar
Johns Hopkins University
Maria Pellegrini
Executive Director, Programs
W. M. Keck Foundation
Michael Pepe
CEO
Acacia Road Ventures
Henry Petroski
Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering and Professor of History
Duke University
Suzanne A. Pierce
Research Scientist/Lecturer
Texas Advanced Computing Center and Jackson School of Geosciences
The University of Texas at Austin
Andrea Polli
Professor and Mesa Del Sol Endowed Chair
Fine Arts and Engineering
University of New Mexico
Kris Price
Director of Program Implementation
ArtScience Prize
Alana Quinn
Senior Program Associate
CPNAS
Laurel Riek
Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
University of Notre Dame
Thomas W. Rudin
Director
Board on Higher Education and Workforce
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Eugene Russo
Editor, Front Matter
PNAS
National Academies
Andrea Sachdeva
International Director of Education
ArtScience Prize
Lauren Schumacker
Science Writing Scholar
University of Georgia
Edward Shanken
Associate Professor, Digital + Media
Rhode Island School of Design
Ian Shipsey
Professor of Experimental Physics
Department of Physics
Oxford University
Ben A. Shneiderman
Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Maryland
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
University of California, Irvine
Kimberly A. Suda-Blake
Senior Program Director
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
JD Talasek
Director, CPNAS
National Academy of Sciences
Mercedes V. Talley
Program Director
W. M. Keck Foundation
Andre Thomas
Director
LIVELab
Texas A&M University
Manuel Toscano
Co-Founder, Principal
Zago
Kentaro Toyama
W. K. Kellogg Associate Professor
School of Information
University of Michigan
Nicola Triscott
Founder and Director, The Arts Catalyst; Co-Founder, Catalyst Rwanda
MaKendra Umstead
Science Writing Scholar
Emory University
Clea T. Waite
Doctoral Fellow
Media Arts + Practice, School of Cinematic Arts
University of Southern California
Timothy W. Weaver
Associate Professor
Emergent Digital Practices
University of Denver
Paul S. Weiss
Distinguished Professor & University of California Presidential Chair
California NanoSystems Institute, Chemistry & Biochemistry, Materials Science & Engineering
University of California, Los Angeles
Ruth West
Associate Professor & Director xREZ Art + Science Lab
Design, New Media, Information Sciences, Computer Science, BIological Sciences
University of North Texas
Lisa M. Wong
Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital; Past President and violinist, Longwood Symphony Orchestra
Lise Worthen-Chaudhari
Research Assistant Professor
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
The Ohio State University
Dongrui Wu
Chief Scientist
DataNova LLC
David Yager
President
The University of the Arts
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative Conference Participants Discovering the Deep Blue Sea: Research, Innovation, Social Engagement
November 9–12, 2016, Irvine, CA
Steering Committee
David M. Karl
Director, Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research & Education (C-MORE), and Director, Simons Collaboration on Ocean Processes and Ecology (SCOPE); Professor of Oceanography
Department of Oceanography
University of Hawaii
Mark R. Abbott
President and Director
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Stephen R. Carpenter
S.A. Forbes Professor of Zoology; Director, Center for Limnology
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Jody W. Deming
Inaugural recipient of the Karl M Banse Professorship in Oceanography
School of Oceanography;
UW Astrobiology Program
University of Washington
David A. Edwards
Professor of the Practice of Idea Translation; Core Member, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering; Founder and Director, Le Laboratoire in Paris, France and Cambridge (USA); Faculty Associate, Center for Nanoscale Systems
Harvard University
Paul G. Falkowski
Bennett L. Smith Professor of Business and Natural Resources, and Director of Rutgers Energy Institute
Depts. of Earth and Planetary Science and Marine and Coastal Sciences
Rutgers University
Morteza (Mory) Gharib
Hans W. Liepmann Professor of Aeronautics and Bio-Inspired Engineering; Director, Graduate Aerospace Laboratories
Aerospace/GALCIT
California Institute of Technology
Margaret Leinen
Director, Scripps Institution of Oceanography; Vice Chancellor
University of California, San Diego
Jonna A. K. Mazet
Professor of Epidemiology & Disease Ecology; Executive Director, One Health Institute Global; Director, PREDICT Project of USAID Emerging Pandemic Threats Program
UC Davis One Health Institute
University of California, Davis
David Relman
Thomas C. and Joan M. Merigan Professor, Depts. of Medicine, and of Microbiology & Immunology; Co-Director, Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC)
Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies; Chief of Infectious Diseases, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Healthcare System
Stanford University
Don Walsh
Honorary President
The Explorers Club
W. M. Keck Foundation Staff
Maria Pellegrini
Executive Director, Programs
W. M. Keck Foundation
Mercedes V. Talley
Program Director
W. M. Keck Foundation
National Academy of Sciences Staff
Marcia K. McNutt
President
National Academy of Sciences
Kenneth R. Fulton
Executive Director
National Academy of Sciences
JD Talasek
Director, Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences
National Academy of Sciences
Alana Quinn
Senior Program Associate, Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences
National Academy of Sciences
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative Staff
Kimberly A. Suda-Blake
Senior Program Director
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
Anne Heberger Marino
Program Officer
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
Cristen A. Kelly
Associate Program Officer
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
Rachel Lesinski
Associate Program Officer
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
Thomas Holland
Web Specialist/PC Analyst
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
Participants
Doug Aitken
Artist and film director
Doug Aitken Workshop
Harriet Alexander
Postdoctoral Fellow
University of California, Davis
Mariana Amatullo
Co-Founder and Vice President, Designmatters, ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena
Design and Innovation Fellow, Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University
Brandon Ballengée
Postdoctoral Researcher
Artist
Ichthyology
Louisiana State University
Ballengee Studio LLC
Mark Ballora
Associate Professor of Music Technology
School of Music/School of Theatre
The Pennsylvania State University
Stephen J. Beckett
Postdoctoral Fellow
School of Biological Sciences
Georgia Institute of Technology
Sandor Becz
Vice President, Engineering
Engineering
Hydroid, Inc.
Philip Beesley
Professor
School of Architecture
University of Waterloo
Kelly Benoit-Bird
Senior Scientist
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
Daniele Bianchi
Assistant Professor
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
University of California, Los Angeles
Jennifer Biddle
Assistant Professor
School of Marine Science and Policy
University of Delaware
Kelsey Bisson
Ph.D. student
Department of Geography
University of California, Santa Barbara
Timothy J. Broderick
Chief Science Officer
Wright State Research Institute
Deborah M. Brosnan
Professor
Biology (Global Change Center and The Resilience Forum)
Virginia Tech
President
Deborah Brosnan & Associates
Ken Buesseler
Senior Scientist
Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Margaret L. Byron
Postdoctoral Fellow
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of California, Irvine
C. Anela Choy
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
Barbara J. Culliton
President
The Culliton Group/Editorial Strategies
Hans G. Dam
Professor
Marine Sciences
University of Connecticut
Lisa J. D’amour
Co-Artistic Director
PearlDamour
Curtis Deutsch
Associate Professor
Oceanography
University of Washington
Mark Dion
Conceptual Artist
Studio
Benjamin Dubansky
Research Scientist
Biological Sciences
University of North Texas
Chris Dupont
Associate Professor
J. Craig Venter Institute
Janeil M. Engelstad
Founding Director
Make Art with Purpose
Stuart Feldman
Head of Schmidt Sciences
Schmidt Philanthropies
Rachel D. Field
Ph.D. Candidate
Biomedical Engineering
Columbia University
Diego F. Figueroa
Assistant Professor
School of Earth, Environmental, and Marine Sciences
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Lisa-ann Gershwin
Research Scientist and Writer
Rebecca E. Green
Office of Environment
U.S. Department of the Interior
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
David F. Gruber
Associate Professor
Natural Sciences
Baruch College, City University of New York
Thomas P. Guilderson
Scientist
Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Steven Haddock
Senior Scientist
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
Christopher T. Hayes
Assistant Professor
Marine Science
University of Southern Mississippi
Julie A. Huber
Associate Scientist
Josephine Bay Paul Center
Marine Biological Laboratory
Jon Kaye
Program Director
Marine Microbiology Initiative
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Margot H. Knight
Executive Director
Djerassi Resident Artists Program
Daniel Kohn
Ligo Project, Kohnworkshop
Elizabeth B. Kujawinski
Associate Scientist
Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
James J. Leichter
Professor
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
University of California, San Diego
Alan P. Leonardi
Director
Ocean Exploration and Research
NOAA
Amy E. Maas
Assistant Scientist
Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences
Jeffrey Marlow
Postdoctoral Scholar
Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Harvard University
Christopher S. Martens
Distinguished Professor
Marine Sciences
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Marty D. Matlock
Professor and Executive Director
Office for Sustainability
University of Arkansas
Jennifer May
Director
Designmatters at ArtCenter College of Design
Shane Mayack
Director
Ligo Project
Lillian R. McCormick
Graduate Student
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
University of California, San Diego
Ryan McKittrick
Director of Artistic Programs/Dramaturg
American Repertory Theater at Harvard University
Anna P. M. Michel
Assistant Scientist
Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Oliver Morton
Briefings Editor
The Economist
David W. Murphy
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
University of South Florida
Richard W. Murray
Division Director
Ocean Sciences
National Science Foundation
Amanda N. Netburn
Knauss Marine Policy Fellow in Ocean Exploration
Office of Ocean Exploration and Research
NOAA
Nuno J. Nunes
Professor
Madeira-ITI
Madeira-ITI, U. Madeira
Elizabeth Nyman
Assistant Professor of Political Science and Maritime Studies Coordinator
Maritime Studies
Texas A&M University at Galveston
Melissa M. Omand
Assistant Professor
Graduate School of Oceanography
University of Rhode Island
Pamela Parker
Experiential Graphic Designer
Undercurrent Design
Larry J. Pratt
Senior Scientist
Physical Oceanography
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
Andrew Quitmeyer
Professor
Digital Naturalism
Shriram Ramanathan
Professor
Materials
Purdue University
Thomas Riedl
Chief Technology Officer
OceanComm, Inc.
Bruce H. Robison
Senior Scientist
Research
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
Warren C. Ruder
Assistant Professor
Virginia Tech
University of Pittsburgh
Alyson E. Santoro
Assistant Professor
Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology
University of California, Santa Barbara
Chris A. Scholin
President and CEO
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
Sha Xin Wei
Professor and Director
School of Arts, Media + Engineering
Arizona State University
Rania Siam
Professor and Chair
Biology Department
American University in Cairo
Michael E. Sieracki
Program Director
Ocean Sciences
National Science Foundation
Tom Skalak
Executive Director
The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group
Adam D. Skarke
Assistant Professor
Department of Geosciences
Mississippi State University
Heather R. Spence
Co-Founder and President
GRACIASS
Tavares Strachan
Contemporary Conceptual Artist
Eleanor Stuart
Visiting Research Fellow
Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science
Australian National University
Liz Taylor
President
DOER Marine
Nicola Triscott
Director
Arts Catalyst
Tempest A. van Schaik
Bioengineering
Science Practice
Imperial College London
Michael Vecchione
Zoologist
NOAA
Luis A. Vega
Specialist
Hawaii Natural Energy Institute
University of Hawaii
Madhvi J. Venkatesh
Curriculum Fellow
Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Harvard Medical School
Clea T. von Chamier-Waite
Ph.D. Fellow
Media Arts + Practice
University of Southern California
Brian von Herzen
Executive Director
Climate Foundation
Maggie L. Walser
Director, Education & Capacity Building
Gulf Research Program
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Timothy W. Weaver
Professor
Emergent Digital Practices
University of Denver
Karen Wishner
Professor of Oceanography
Oceanography
University of Rhode Island
Robert Wood
Professor
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Harvard University
Patricia L. Yager
Professor
Marine Sciences
University of Georgia
Kayley T. You Mak
Science Writing Scholar
Biology
Barnard College
Victor Zykov
Director of Research
Schmidt Ocean Institute
Graduate Design Students ArtCenter College of Design
Janice Chang
Benjamin Chu
Tom Eichacker
Alejandra Fernandez
Grace Haynes
David Hollo
Janet Hwang
Celia Jacobs
Caitlin Joo
Aphinop Aiden Khuiphum
Michelle Kim
Allie Kollias
Joshue Molina
Kristen Torralba
Design Student Adviser
Sherry Hoffman
Design Student Faculty Mentor;
Co-Founder
ArtCenter College of Design; March Studio
Writers
Teresa Carey
Graduate Science Writing Student
University of California, Santa Cruz
Alana Quinn
Senior Program Associate, Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences
National Academy of Sciences
Kathleen M. Raven
Science Writer
Yale Medicine
Yasemin Saplakoglu
Graduate Science Writing Student
University of California, Santa Cruz
Photographer
Paul Kennedy
Photographer
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative Conference Participants Beyond Boundaries: 15 Years of Exploring Intersections in Science, Engineering, and Medicine
November 8–11, 2017, Irvine, CA
Aseem Z. Ansari
Professor
Genome Center & Dept. of Biochemistry
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Megan Atkinson
Program Coordinator
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
Sima Bagheri
Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Brandon H. Ballengée
Artist/Biologist
Museum of Natural Science
Ballengée Studio LLC/Louisiana State University
Benjamin R. Bates
Professor
Communication Studies
Ohio University
Bradford C. Bennett
Assistant Professor
Kinesiology
Cal State Univ. East Bay
Anamaria Berea
Computational Economist
Data Science
ATA
Jonathan J. Berger
Professor
Music
Stanford University
Kelsey Bisson
Ph.D. Candidate
Marine Science
University of California, Santa Barbara
Guy Bloch
Professor of Biology
Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Har Adar, Israel
Kath Bogie
Associate Professor
Orthopaedics
Case Western Reserve University
Stephen J. Bonasera
Associate Professor of Medicine
Internal Medicine
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Kate A. Brauman
Lead Scientist
Institute on the Environment
University of Minnesota
Steven E. Brenner
Professor
Plant & Microbial Biology; Molecular & Cell Biology; Bioengineering
University of California, Berkeley
Sally Brown
Research Professor
School of Environmental and Forest Sciences
University of Washington
Karen J. L. Burg
Harbor Lights Endowed Chair & Professor
College of Veterinary Medicine
University of Georgia
Beth Cardier
Narrative Modeler
Research
Sirius Beta
Niccolo Casas
Designer, Architect, Professor
Architecture Department
The Bartlett University College London
Danny Z. Chen
Professor
Computer Science & Engineering
University of Notre Dame
Ann E. Christiano
Frank Karel Chair in Public Interest Communication
College of Journalism
University of Florida
Jennifer Couch
Branch Chief
Structural Biology and Molecular Application
National Institutes of Health
Barbara J. Culliton
President
The Culliton Group/Editorial Strategies
Clifford Dacso
Professor
Molecular and Cellular Biology
Baylor College of Medicine
Harry Dankowicz
Professor
Mechanical Science and Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Robert Davenport
Managing Director
Brown Institute for Brain Science
Brown University
Virginia A. Davis
Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
Auburn University
Genevieve Dion
Director, Center for Functional Fabrics
Department of Design
Maria R. D’Orsogna
Professor
Mathematics
California State University at Northridge
Melanie Dreyer-Lude
Associate Professor
Theatre and Dance
Missouri State University
Benjamin Dubansky
Research Scientist
Biological Sciences
University of North Texas
Michael Fasullo
Associate Professor of Nanobioscience
Nanobiosciences
SUNY Polytechnic Instittute
Rachel D. Field
Graduate Student
Biomedical Engineering
Columbia University
Diego F. Figueroa
Assistant Professor
School of Earth, Environmental, and Marine Sciences
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Kevin Finneran
Editor-in-Chief
Issues in Science and Technology
National Academies
Stephen M. Fiore
Professor
Philosophy and Institute for Simulation & Training
University of Central Florida
James (Chris) Forsythe
President
Brain Hackers Association
William J. Foster
Professor
Ophthalmology & Bioengineering
Temple University
Kenneth R. Fulton
Executive Director
National Academy of Sciences
Simon F. Giszter
Professor
Neurobiology
Drexel University College of Medicine
James A. Glazier
Professor
Intelligent Systems Engineering
Indiana University
Robert A. Greenes
Prof & Ira A Fulton Chair
Biomedical Informatics
Arizona State University
Diana Grigsby
Associate Professor
Kinesiology and Community Health Division of Nutritional Sciences
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Mark B. Halper
Freelance Journalist
Freelance
Time, Fortune, Guardian, many others
Anne Heberger Marino
Senior Program Director
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
Seth Hoedl
Chief Science & Legal Officer
Post Road Foundation
Thomas Holland
Web Specialist/PC Analyst
National Academy of Sciences
Amalia M. Issa
Professor
Personalized Medicine & Targeted Therapeutics
Petr Janata
Professor
Center for Mind and Brain
University of California, Davis
Ana Kasirer-Friede
Medicine
University of California, San Diego
Cristen A. Kelly
Associate Program Officer
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
Youngmoo Kim
Director
ExCITe Center
Drexel University
Zelma H. T. Kiss
Professor
Clinical Neuroscience
University of Calgary
Margot H. Knight
Executive Director
Djerassi Resident Artists Program
Daniel Kohn
Lead Artist
Kohnworkshop
Brian A. Korgel
Professor
Chemical Engineering
The University of Texas at Austin
Amy A. Kruse
Chief Scientific Officer
Platypus Institute
Allison Kudla
Associate Director of Communications
Institute for Systems Biology
Jay B. Labov
Senior Advisor for Education and Communication
Board on Life Sciences and Division on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Sean X. Leng
Associate Professor
Medicine
Johns Hopkins University
Corinne Lengsfeld
Professor/Associate Provost for Research
Mechanical and Materials Engineering
University of Denver
Valerie J. Leppert
Professor
Materials Science and Engineering
University of California, Merced
Rachel L. Lesinski
Associate Program Officer
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
Jeffrey Liew
Professor
Educational Psychology
Texas A&M University
Jeffrey Liew
Professor
Educational Psychology
Texas A&M University
Julie Linsey
Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Li Liu
Associate Professor
Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Grant S. McCall
Associate Professor
Anthropology
Tulane University
Martha Mecartney
Professor
Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
University of California, Irvine
Deirdre R. Meldrum
Distinguished Professor of Biosignatures Discovery
Fulton School of Engineering/The Biodesign Institute
Arizona State University
Fernando A. Milano
Veterinarian
Ciencias Biologicas
Fac. Ciencias Veterinarias, Universidad Nacional del Centro
Tandil, Argentina
Shelie A. Miller
Associate Professor
School for Environment and Sustainability
University of Michigan
Sean Miller
Associate Professor
University of Florida, Gainesville
Shalini Misra
Assistant Professor
School of Public and International Affairs
Virginia Tech
Link W. Morgan
Student
Louisiana State University
Lilianne R. Mujica-Parodi
Director
Biomedical Engineering
Laboratory for Computational Neurodiagnostics
Julie Murrell
Head of Cell Therapy
Gene Editing and Novel Modalities
MilliporeSigma
Vivian Mushahwar
Assistant Professor and AHFMR Scholar
Biomedical Engineering and Center for Neuroscience
University of Alberta
Roger J. Narayan
Professor
Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of North Carolina and North Carolina State University
Steven Orzack
Senior Research Scientist
Biology
Fresh Pond Research Institute
Sean Palecek
Visiting Scientist
Allen Institute for Cell Science
Theodore P. Pavlic
Assistant Professor
School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering
Arizona State University
Maria Pellegrini
Executive Director, Programs
W. M. Keck Foundation
Michael Pepe
Associate, Department of Psychology
Psychology
Harvard University
Bojan Petrovic
Professor
Nuclear and Radiological Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Robert Pless
Professor and Chair
Computer Science
George Washington University
Alana Quinn
Senior Program Associate
Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences
James W. Raich
Professor
Ecology, Evolution & Organismal Biology
Iowa State University
Srilakshmi Raj
Research Associate
Molecular Biology and Genetics, Applied Economics and Management
Cornell University
A. Ravishankar Rao
Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
Fairleigh Dickinson University
Kathleen M. Raven
Science Writer
Yale Medicine
Thomas Rieker
Senior Program Director
W. M. Keck Foundation
Michael R. Rose
Professor
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of California, Irvine
Naoki Saito
Professor of Mathematics
Mathematics
University of California, Davis
Iraj Saniee
Group Leader
Mathematics & Algorithms Research
Bell Laboratories, Nokia
Natalia V. Saraeva
Principal Nuclear Engineer
Nuclear Engineering
Argonne National Laboratory
Casim A. Sarkar
Associate Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of Minnesota
Caterina Scoglio
Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Kansas State University
Tom Skalak
Executive Director
The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group
Heather R. Spence
Co-Founder & President
Marine Biology
GRACIASS
Daniel Stokols
Chancellor’s Professor Emeritus and Research Professor
Department of Urban Planning and Public Policy; and Department of Psychology and Social Behavior; Program in Public Health and Department of Epidemiology
University of California, Irvine
Kimberly A. Suda-Blake
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
JD Talasek
Director, CPNAS
National Academy of Sciences
Mercedes V. Talley
Program Director
W. M. Keck Foundation
Demetri Terzopoulos
Distinguished Professor
Computer
University of California, Los Angeles
Kimani C. Toussaint
Associate Professor
Mechanical Science and Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Bao Truong
Supervisor, Plant Transient & Accident Analysis
Reactor Safety
TerraPower
Izabela Tworowska
Design and Drug Develoement
RadioMedix Inc
Yalda Uhls
Assistant Adjunct Professor, Direct
Psychology, Consumer
UCLA, Common Sense
Floria F. K. Uy
Research Assistant Professor
Biology
University of Miami
Andrew Z. Wang
Associate Professor
Radiation Oncology
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Timothy W. Weaver
Professor
Emergent Digital Practices
University of Denver
Debra L. Weiner
Emergency Medicine
Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School
Michael Weinrich
Guest Researcher
NIST Center for Neutron Research
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Paul S. Weiss
University of California Presidential Chair & Distinguished Professor
California NanoSystems Institute, Chemistry, & MatSci
University of California, Los Angeles
Ruth West
Associate Professor & Director
Design & Computer Science
University of North Texas, xREZ Art + Science Lab
John E. Wiktorowicz
Director of Proteomics
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
The University of Texas Medical
Carla Williams
Consultant
Michelle Yeoman
Lecturer
Veterinary Integrative Biosciences
Texas A&M University
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