Confirmed Speakers SEED 2018

Keynote Speakers:

• James Collins, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Jay Keasling, University of California, Berkeley
• Floyd E. Romesberg, The Scripps Research Institute
• Pamela Ronald, University of California, Davis

Additional Speakers:

• Hulya Akdemir Koc, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• Jacob Beal, Raytheon BBN Technologies
• Ahanjit Bhattacharya, University of California San Diego
• Alice Boo, Imperial College London
• Lisa Burdette, University of California, Berkeley
• Amphun Chaiboonchoe, New York University Abu Dhabi
• Anushree Chatterjee, University of Colorado Boulder
• Hui Chen, Conagen
• Carl de Boer, Broad Institute
• Linda Dekker, Imperial College London
• Ilenne Del Valle, Rice University
• Mo Ebrahimkhani, Arizona State University/Mayo Clinic
• Tom Ellis, Imperial College London
• Iman Farasat, Merck
• Jenna Gallegos, Colorado State University
• Ben Gordon, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Broad Foundry
• Guido Grossi, Aarhus University
• Shakked O. Halperin, University of California, Berkeley
• Kevin Holden, Synthego
• Tammy M. Hsu, University of California, Berkeley
• Hsin-Ho Huang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Samira Kiani, Arizona State University
• Aditya Kunjapur, Harvard Medical School
• Joshua LaBaer, Arizona State University
• Yan Liang, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• Theresa B. Loveless, University of California, Irvine
• Leonardo Morsut, University of Southern California
• Nikhil U. Nair, Tufts University
• Cheryl A. Nickerson, Arizona State University
• Minhee Park, Boston University
• Nikit Patel, Boston University
• Pamela Peralta-Yahya, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Abe Pressman, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Pradeep Ramesh, California Institute of Technology
• Itzel Ramos, REG Life Sciences
• Eric W. Schmidt, University of Utah
• Helena Shomar, Delft University of Technology
• Barrett Steinberg, Editas Medicine
• Tanya Tschirhart, Naval Research Laboratory
• Timothy M. Wannier, Harvard Medical School
• Wilson Wong, Boston University
• Di Wu, California Institute of Technology
• Huimin Zhao, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Government Panelists:

• Jermont Chen, Asian Office of Aerospace Research & Development (AOARD)
• Linda A. Chrisey, U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR)
• J. Aura Gimm, U.S. Army Research Office (ARO)
• Elebeoba (Chi-Chi) May, National Science Foundation (NSF)
• Pablo Rabinowicz, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
• David Rampulla, U.S. National Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)
• Patrick Rose, U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR)

Industrial Panelists:

• Adam Fisher, Synlogic
• Richard Fox, Inscripta
• Alex Juminaga, Lanzatech
• Eric Moessinger, Nano Dimension
• Will Schroeder, Ginkgo Bioworks