November 2021

Dr. Liqun Zhang is an assistant professor at Tennessee Technological University. She runs her lab that focuses on two research areas: 1). Human beta Defensin type 3 (HBD-3) structure, dynamics, and interaction with chemokine receptors such as CCR2b, CXCR4, and EphA2-EphrinA1 receptors; 2). Bioasphalt from renewable biomass.Read more

Mario Moisés Álvarez is a Mexican researcher, born in Cd. Juárez, Chihuahua. He was a Visiting Professor at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technologies, at the Brigham Women's Hospital of the Harvard Medical School, in Cambridge Massachusetts (2014-2017). He also collaborated as a visiting professor in the Microsystems Technology Laboratories at MIT (2015-2016). He conducts research at the BIRC (Biomaterials Innovation Research Center) in the areas of Tissue Engineering, Biomaterials, and Microfluidics. Today, Mario Moisés...Read more

Peter Q. Nguyen is a senior staff scientist at Harvard University's Wyss Institute of Biologically Inspired Engineering. In Nguyen’s postdoctoral work at Harvard University, he has conceived, designed, and fully developed a technology platform BIND (Biofilm-Integrated Nanofiber Display) that allows for the re-engineering of the bacterial bioflm extracellular material to have programmed artificial functions. These "Engineered Living Materials" establish living systems as biological self-replicating nanomaterials factories. Nguyen’s other work...Read more