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February 2020

Gary S. May

Gary S. May is the seventh chancellor of UC Davis, one of the nation’s most academically and socially diverse universities. His vision is to lead the university to new heights in academic excellence, inclusion, public service, and upward mobility for students of all backgrounds.

He leads the most comprehensive campus in the University of California system, with four colleges and six professional schools. UC Davis enrolls more than 39,000 students, brings in nearly $850 million annually in sponsored research and contributes at least $8 billion annually to California’s economy. In...Read more

Kobi Benenson

Yaakov (Kobi) Benenson is a Professor of Synthetic Biology at the Biosystems Department (D-BSSE) of ETH Zurich in Basel. He studied chemistry and biochemistry at the Technion, and did his PhD at the Weizmann Institute. During his PhD he invented and developed autonomous DNA-based state machines, and was named one of the world’s top 100 young innovators by MIT Technology Review. Between 2005-2010 he was a Bauer Fellow and a group leader at Harvard’s Center for Systems Biology, where his group pioneered multi-input synthetic gene circuits for tumor cell targeting and eradication. Since 2010...Read more

Liz Shepherd

Liz Shepherd is a Co-Founder of Novome Biotechnologies, a pre-clinical biotech company developing engineered gut bacteria as therapeutics. Liz received her PhD in Microbiology & Immunology from Stanford University, where she worked on Novome's foundational platform technology in the laboratory of Justin Sonnenburg. There, she developed a strategy for robust and reliable engraftment of engineered bacteria into the gut microbiome, and published this work in Nature. Prior to her work at Stanford, Liz received her undergraduate degree in Microbiology from the University of Washington,...Read more

Preliminary Technical Program

** Program is subject to change - Last Updated 9/4/2020 All Times are Eastern Time. Tuesday, Sept, 8th 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Keynote Speaker: Engineering Biology for a Sustainable Future Jay Keasling , University of California Berkeley 10:30 AM - 10:35 AM Hallway Chats and Stretch Break 10:35 AM - 12...

February Joint with ANS meeting - Julie Ezold, Heavy Actinides at ORNL

Thursday, February 13, 2020,
6:00pm to 8:30pm
EST
Date: Thursday, February 13, 2020 Location: Rothchild Catering and Conference Center, 8807 Kingston Pike, Knoxville TN 37923 5:00 pm Executive Committee Meeting (All members welcome) 5:30 pm Social/Networking 6:00 pm Dinner - $25 or $28.16 for attendees and free for students (Pay by cash or check...Read more

Postponed - Reese's Plant Tour

Thursday, March 12, 2020, 5:00pm EDT
All -- the Reese's Plant tour has been postponed to an undetermined date.Read more

Whitaker Center AIChE Exhibit

Saturday, February 15, 2020, 9:30am EST to Sunday, February 16, 2020, 4:30pm EST
We are extending our appeal for volunteers for the Whitaker Center AIChE Exhibit on Sat. & Sun. Feb. 15 & 16. Our coordinators, Sue Benjamin and Adam Reimnitz advise all time slots are still open and we need member volunteers to fill them. We require two volunteers per time slot. The time...Read more

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