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Ludmilla Aristilde

Dr. Ludmilla Aristilde grew up in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti. After emigrating to the U.S., Aristilde enjoyed studying her two passions, art and environmental science, at Cornell University where she completed a dual-degree program with a B.F.A. in Fine Arts and a B.S. in Science of Earth Systems. During her doctoral studies at the University of California-Berkeley, Aristilde worked on the environmental chemistry and toxicology of veterinary antibiotics under the supervision of Dr. Garrison Sposito. Following the completion of her PhD, Aristilde went to Grenoble (France) as an American...Read more

Karsten Temme

Karsten Temme, Ph.D. is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Pivot Bio, a leading nitrogen innovator. Driven by a vision of a more sustainable food system, Dr. Temme has dedicated his career translating new technology into commercial solutions that improve financial and environmental outcomes for farmers.

During his doctoral work in bioengineering, Dr. Temme and his Pivot Bio co-founder invented a breakthrough technology that enables cereal crops to self-fertilize. Together with his co-founder, they launched Pivot Bio in 2011 to lift up farmers and accelerate progress...Read more

Christie Peebles

Dr. Christie Peebles earned her B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from Texas Tech University and received her Ph.D. in Bioengineering from Rice University in 2008.  While at Rice, Dr. Peebles worked on the metabolic engineering of the Madagascar periwinkle (Catharanthus roseus) to increase production of two important anti-cancer drugs, vinblastine and vincristine.  Following her time at Rice, she spent a year of postdoctoral research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology working on biofuels production in E. coli.  At CSU, Dr. Peebles research is focused in the...Read more

Bill Bickford

Bill Bickford is the design director for the Packaging Innovation Americas group for L’Oreal USA, supporting brands and overseeing all strategic product & packaging design for transformative and blue sky projects.  Across more than 20 years of design experience, he has followed a twisting path of design, science, process and marketing to his creative approach, and has pioneered breakthrough products in cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and consumer products.  Bill studied Industrial Design at the Savannah College of Art & Design and also holds an MBA and an MS...Read more

Susan Rosser

Susan is Professor of Synthetic Biology at the University of Edinburgh.  She is Director of the Edinburgh Mammalian Synthetic Biology Research Centre, Co-director of the Edinburgh Genome Foundry for synthetic DNA synthesis and assembly.  She also holds a prestigious EPSRC Leadership Fellowship in Synthetic Biology.  Her research focuses on developing tools for synthetic biology approaches for pathway and genome engineering in bacteria, yeast and mammalian cell systems. The applications of her work include rapid strain engineering for production of high value secondary...Read more

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