April 2021

Edith Heard is Director General of the EMBL. She studied Natural Sciences specialising in Genetics at Cambridge University and then obtained her PhD from the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in London. After a postdoc at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, she set up her group in 2001 at the Institut Curie where she became Director of the Genetics and Developmental Biology Unit in 2010. She was appointed as Professor of the Collège de France in 2012 to the Chair of Epigenetics and Cellular Memory, and in 2019 she became Director General of EMBL. Edith’s laboratory studies epigenetics, focusing on...Read more

Aaron received a Bachelor of Science in Physics and a Bachelor of Arts in Art at UCLA. He completed his PhD in Applied Physics at Stanford with Dr. Stephen Quake. Aaron then went to Beijing, China as a Whitaker International Postdoctoral Fellow and a Ford postdoctoral fellow and worked with Dr. Yanyi Huang in the Biodynamic Optical Imaging Center (BIOPIC) at Peking University. Aaron joined the faculty of UC Berkeley as an Assistant Professor in Bioengineering in 2016 and is currently a core member of the Biophysics Program and the Center for Computational Biology and he is a Chan...Read more

Harshit lives to blow stuff up; He has B.Tech Chemical Engineering from Uka Tarsadia University. He has published a review on utilization of agriculture waste to water treatment. He is continuously aiming to bridge between creativity, things, and peoples in order to recycle and reuse them. He emphasis that We can’t buy a new planet for our children and reveals population is nothing but the resources we are gathering and we allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their values. Harshit, secure the best research phenomenon in GCPC Gujarat abstracts 2020 journal also he and his...Read more