May 2021

Michael Elowitz is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering, and Applied Physics at Caltech. Dr. Elowitz's laboratory has introduced synthetic biology approaches to build and understand genetic circuits in living cells and tissues. As a graduate student with Stanislas Leibler, Elowitz developed the Repressilator, an artificial genetic clock that generates gene expression oscillations in individual E. coli cells. Since then, he has continued to design and build synthetic genetic circuits, bringing a “build to understand” approach to...Read more

Pieter Schmal is a Research Associate at ExxonMobil Research & Engineering since May 2019. He has a M.Sc. & Ph.D. from TU Delft in The Netherlands on large-scale dynamic modeling for online applications. Pieter did a post-doc on irreversible thermodynamics, design and control of the heat-integrated distillation column. He had his own company to commercialize a patent on a new separation method. In 2008 Pieter joined Process Systems Enterprise and was responsible for the technical sales team in the Americas, head of PSE Academic and director of the Process...Read more