Chairs:
- Karmella Haynes, Arizona State University
- Ryan Gill, University of Colorado Boulder
Organizing Committee:
- Caroline Ajo-Franklin, LBNL
- Will Blake, Wyss Institute at Harvard
- Abhishek Chatterjee, Boston College
- John Dueber, University of California, Berkeley
- Jeffrey "Clem" Fortman, U.S. Department of Defense
- Ahmad (Mo) Khalil, Boston University
- Julius Lucks, Northwestern University
- Molly Megraw, Oregon State University
- Hemai Parthasarathy, Breakout Labs
- Vatsan Raman, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Howard Salis, Pennsylvania State University
- Steve Shih, Concordia University
- Wilson Wong, Boston University
Karmella A. Haynes
Karmella Haynes is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Emory University. She earned her Ph.D. studying epigenetics and chromatin in Drosophila at Washington University, St. Louis. Postdoctoral fellowships at Davidson College and Harvard Medical School introduced her to synthetic biology. Today, her research aims to identify how the intrinsic properties of chromatin, the DNA-protein structure that packages eukaryotic genes, can be used to control cell development in tissues. Her HHMI postdoctoral fellowship project on bacterial computers was recognized as “Publication...Read more
Ryan T. Gill
Ryan Gill is a Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at CU Boulder and is the Associate Director for Research at RASEI. He was the founding Managing Director at the Colorado Center for Biorefining and Biofuels (C2B2) and was co-founder and board member at OPXBio.Read more