Discover the latest advancements in biomarkers at the 8th Annual Biomarker & Precision Medicine US Congress. Join experts from global pharma, top biotechs, and renowned academic institutions to explore emerging tools and strategies in translational science, diagnostics, and biomarker development. Built with industry experts in mind, the conference program highlights: • Exciting biomarker technologies impacting R&D in 2024 • Multi-omics, spatial biology, digital markers, and next-gen diagnostics • The opportunity to engage with regulators, diagnostics manufacturers, and biopharma peers ..read more

I am a Ph.D. student in Systems Engineering at Colorado State University, working in Dr. Peccoud’s research group on the development of a high-throughput plasmid assembly pipeline. I previously worked with liposomal interface interactions of small molecules, earning my Masters Degree in Analytical Chemistry in the Spring of 2023. I use this background in chemistry to support the processes that I develop in the lab to better automate workflows in the production and sequencing of plasmids ..read more

I started as a biological chemistry PhD graduate student in 2020, after studying enzymes involved in plant starch degradation in my undergraduate studies. Here, I conduct research in cell free reconstitution of protein-based mesoscale structures derived from bacteria. I am interested in protein engineering and developing mesoscale protein-based tools. I am also interested in applying the protein tools I develop for reductionistic studies of the biological systems they’re derived from ..read more

I am the founder of Orion Integrated Biosciences. I lead a group of researchers developing new techniques to decode microbes’ genomic information and map short DNA fragments to their source of origin, virulence, and possible genetic manipulation. My research includes the use of artificial intelligence algorithms including large language models, neural networks, and generative adversarial networks to design a new generation of biotentities for biotechnology applications. I also lead the advancement of a new generation of analytical tools for risk assessment and early warning of biothreats that ..read more

Publication Date: March 2024 | Originally published in the Journal of Science Policy & Governance Global challenges are complex and must be tackled in a holistic manner. Understanding and addressing them requires collaboration across disciplines, often uniting the humanities and social and natural sciences, to ask better questions and identify practical and revolutionary solutions. Universities can be excellent vehicles for transformational change as they educate the next generation of civically-motivated thinkers to create meaningful action and impact. Too often systemic, artificial barri ..read more

Research in cell culture models and synthetic biology innovations ..read more

I’m a postdoctoral fellow at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and the Joint BioEnergy Institute, specializing in biochemistry and molecular biology. My research focuses on characterizing sugar catabolism and engineering bacteria for sustainable biofuel production. Additionally, I’m exploring chemical biology tools to uncover new pathways in microbial communities, aiming to contribute to the bioeconomy and environmental well-being ..read more

Anne Villacastin (she/her) is a postdoctoral fellow at the Joint BioEnergy Institute of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). She joined LBNL in 2022 and has since been dedicated to discovering optimized transformation methods for the sorghum cereal crop, a promising source of renewable biofuels and bioproducts. Prior to this, she was awarded her PhD in Biological Sciences from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in 2022. Her doctoral research focused on studying the roles of drought-related genes in rice through the application of a multiplex CRISPR triple-gene knockout system ..read more

Lynn Rothschild is passionate astrobiologist focusing on the origin and evolution of life on Earth and elsewhere, while at the same time pioneering the use of engineering biology to enable space exploration. Her research focuses on how life, particularly microbes, has evolved in the context of the physical environment, both here and potentially elsewhere. A graduate of Yale, Indiana University and Brown, she has brought her imagination and creativity to the burgeoning field of synthetic biology, articulating a vision for the future of synthetic biology as an enabling technology for NASA’s miss ..read more

Goncagul Cengiz Baris is a doctoral student in law at the T.C. Beirne Law School, University of Queensland and the ARC Centre of Excellency in Synthetic Biology. She is also a bursary and part of the Australian National Science Agency, CSIRO’s Advanced Engineering Biology Future Science Platform, supervised by Rob Speight, the director of AEB FSP and a member of EBRC. Her thesis research seeks to understand the role of law in establishing, implementing, and regulating the standards of Synthetic Biology by looking at the intersection between collective knowledge management and intellectual prop ..read more