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Mauricio Antunes

Dr. Antunes graduated from a PhD at Purdue University and is now Assistant Professor at Colorado State University. He is interested in developing artificially-controlled genetic networks to program plants and plant cells to perform desired functions. Synthetic genetic switches can be introduced into plants to precisely control gene expression, rewiring natural signaling and metabolic pathways, or generating novel traits. Engineering these systems to behave according to specific inputs can serve both basic research and field-applied purposes, allowing applications that range from enhancing...Read more

Amoolya H. Singh

Amoolya H. Singh, PhD, is a senior scientist in computational biology at Amyris, Inc. (Email: info@amyris.com), where she leads the Scientific Computing group, whose work includes innovations in genotype representation and data visualization; building mathematical and statistical models to analyze high-throughput, multivariate genotype and phenotype data; metabolic modeling and design of experiments to perturb microbial biochemical pathways and identify bottlenecks therein; and statistical process control to accelerate Amyris’ design-build-test-...Read more

Adam L. Meadows

Adam L. Meadows, PhD, is a senior scientist in the Biology Dept. at Amyris, Inc. (Email: meadows@amyris.com). Since joining Amyris’s Computational  Biology group in 2007, he has been involved in a variety of projects to model, analyze, and improve the performance of microbes that make small molecules at both the lab and industrial scales. Currently, he leads a project to significantly reduce the cost and time required to develop new strains for producing any target molecule of interest. Before joining Amyris, he was a postdoctoral research...Read more

Jefferson C. Lievense

Jeff Lievense is Founder & CEO of Lievense Bioengineering LLC, and in that capacity, he serves as an advisor to several biotechnology and chemical companies. Previously, he was Senior Advisor to the CEO, Bioengineering & Technology, at Genomatica, a leader in commercial development of biobased process technologies for more sustainable chemical production. He has decades of industrial metabolic engineering, fermentation process development, and process scale-up experience at several companies. His technical contributions span a range of first-of-a-kind biobased processes and...Read more

Paul W. Hill

Paul W. Hill is Vice President of Process Development and Engineering at Amyris, Inc. (Email: hill@amyris.com), where he oversees the creation and implementation of unit operations that maximize the potential of Amyris-developed microorganisms by cost-efficiently producing, isolating, and purifying novel products that meet customer specifications. For the past fourteen years, he has led or contributed to the development and transfer of novel Amyris fermentation and recovery process operations for various gaseous, liquid, and solid products to...Read more

Brian H. Davison

Brian H. Davison is a Corporate Fellow and Chief Scientist for Systems Biology and Biotechnology, Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He is the Chief Science Officer for the Center For Bioenergy Innovation from 2017-present. He was the Science Coordinator in the DOE Bioenergy Science Center from 2007 to 2017. He is the PI for the ongoing DOE-BER project on “Visualization of Solvent Disruption of Biomass and Biomembrane Structures in the Production of Advanced Biofuels and Bioproducts”. He is an Adjunct Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, University of Tennessee-Knoxville. He...Read more

Bernard Cooker

Bernard Cooker, PhD, is the Principal and Owner of the consultancy firm Chemical Processing Solutions (Email: bcooker@chemprosol.com). He has conducted industrially oriented experimental R&D for more than 30 years. He recently worked for biotechnology start-ups in California, investigating lignocellulosic biomass deconstruction through ultra-high-shear and conversion of recycled cellulosics to benzene, toluene, and xylenes. His research also included novel, co-product-free routes to propylene oxide; catalyst preparation, characterization,...Read more

Joel R. Cherry

Joel R. Cherry, PhD, is President of R&D at Amyris, Inc. (Email: info@amyris.com), where he oversees the development of microorganisms that efficiently convert plant-derived feedstocks to chemicals for use in pharmaceuticals, fuels, fragrances, and consumer goods. He has more than 24 years of experience in industrial biotechnology, with a track record of bringing biotech products to market. During a 16-year tenure at Novozymes, he served as Director of Bioenergy Biotechnology and was a member of the R&D executive management team, specializing in...Read more

Kirsten R. Benjamin

Kirsten R. Benjamin has over 16 years of experience in industrial biotechnology and has contributed to the successful launch of nine new fermentation-derived chemical products. She is currently a Vice President of R&D at Pivot Bio, where she leads the team that discovers and optimizes nitrogen-fixing microbes that act as living fertilizers for non-leguminous crops, via a Design-Build-Test-Learn engineering cycle. In 2023, Pivot’s products were used for >5% of the US corn acres, thereby reducing the negative impacts of synthetic nitrogen fertilizers. Before working at Pivot Bio,...Read more

Sangeeta Bhatia

Sangeeta Bhatia is a cancer researcher, MIT professor, and biotech entrepreneur who works to adapt technologies developed in the computer industry for medical innovation. Trained as both a physician and engineer at Harvard, MIT, and Brown University, Bhatia’s laboratory leverages ‘tiny technologies’ of miniaturization to yield inventions with new applications in tissue regeneration, stem cell differentiation, medical diagnostics, predictive toxicology, and drug delivery. She and her trainees have launched more than 10 biotechnology companies to improve human health....Read more

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