Dr. David N. Thompson is a Distinguished Staff Engineer in the Bioenergy Technologies Department at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL). He joined INL in 1995 as a Postdoctoral Research Associate and became full time staff in 1997 in the Biotechnologies Department. Over his career he has worked to develop and improve distributed methods for sustainably handling and processing renewable feedstocks, including industrial, municipal, and forest products process effluents and wastewaters, and renewable lignocellulosic agricultural residues such as cereal straws and corn stover. In...Read more
Kevin Foster is Professor of Evolutionary Biology at the University of Oxford. He has a joint appointment between the Department of Zoology and the Department of Biochemistry.
Research
The lab applies ecological and evolutionary approaches to the study of microbes and the microbiome. The challenge with studying microbial communities is that they contain many evolving and interacting species, which makes them difficult to understand and predict. We combine theory with experimental work to break down this complexity. The lab has a particular interest in the ways that...Read more
Dr. Barker has over 15 years of safety and risk management experience. He has led quantitative risk assessments (QRA), process hazard analyses (PHA) as well as various risk studies, and is responsible for developing and reviewing safety management systems and risk management systems. He has also been involved in the development and review of risk matrices for international oil and gas, and transportation industries as it relates to pipeline safety.
Dr. Barker received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Bath, UK and is the lead partner of ioMosaic's UK office....Read more
The first AIChE Student Regional Conference in Jordan will feature a Research Poster Competition, plus Networking and Educational opportunities for undergraduate students. An optional tour will be offered for additional cost.
The Cell Free Systems Conference will focus on understanding, harnessing and expanding the capabilities of biological systems without living intact cells.
Yang-Yu Liu is currently an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and an Associate Scientist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH). He received his Ph.D. in Physics from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2009, with thesis research focusing on phase transitions in disordered magnets. After that, he held positions as Postdoctoral Research Associate and then Research Assistant Professor in the Center for Complex Network Research at Northeastern University, before he joined HMS and BWH in 2013. The primary goal of his postdoctoral research has been to combine tools...Read more
