Matthew Kay is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering at George Washington University. Dr. Kay’s research team develops innovative technologies to study hypoxia, heart failure, and sleep apnea, with an emphasis on mitochondrial function, arrhythmia mechanisms, and recent emphasis in neurocardiology. His lab has specific expertise in high-speed optical assessments of organ level physiology, including optical mapping, time-resolved absorbance spectroscopy, and neurocardiac optogenetics. Panoramic optical mapping of membrane potential is used to study the spatiotemporal dynamics of arrhythmias...Read more
Lukasz Bugaj is an Assistant Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania.
“Our mission is to understand the principles by which cell signaling drives cell behavior. We aim to determine how cells interpret their environment to make essential decisions like whether to divide, differentiate, or die. Towards these goals, our lab develops innovative light activatible – or, optogenetic – probes to perturb cell signals with exquisite spatial and temporal precision. We use these and other approaches to study cell diverse processes including stem cell differentiation...Read more
Seongjun Park is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Bio and Brain Engineering and the Program of Brain and Cognitive Engineering at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). He received his B.S in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Seoul National University in 2013, and continued on to receive his M.S. and Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering, and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, respectively, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Park’s lab at KAIST, the Bio and Neural Interfaces Laboratory, conducts research on Fiber-based...Read more
Kelly Montes de Oca is Director of Sustainability and Market Outreach Communications at the American Chemistry Council, where, among other priority areas, she manages ACC and member company initiatives related to enhancing diversity, equity and inclusion in the chemical industry. ...Read more
Janneke Balk studied Molecular and Cell Biology at the Agricultural University in Wageningen, the Netherlands. She obtained her D.Phil from the University of Oxford in 2000, where she studied the molecular basis of cytoplasmic male sterility in sunflower with relevance for hybrid crops. After 2 years as a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow at the University of Marburg in Germany, she returned to the UK to start her own research group at the University of Cambridge in 2005. Her research is focussed on iron in plants, including the biosynthesis of iron-sulfur...Read more
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