March 2022

Wilfried Weber is professor of synthetic biology at the University of Freiburg. He studied in Germany, France and Switzerland and earned his PhD with Martin Fussenegger at ETH Zurich. He established his own research group at the Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering at ETH Zurich prior to being appointed as full professor at the University of Freiburg. The research of Wilfried Weber focusses on the intersection of synthetic biology and materials sciences towards the development of interactive cells and materials systems with applications in drug delivery, tissue engineering and...Read more

Karmella A. Haynes, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech School of Engineering and Emory University School of Medicine. Prior to joining Emory, Dr. Haynes was on the faculty in the School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering at Arizona State University.

Dr. Haynes is a member of the Cell and Molecular Biology Research Program at Winship Cancer Institute.

Dr. Haynes earned her PhD studying epigenetics and chromatin in Drosophila at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri...Read more

Elly Tanaka received her AB at Harvard, her PhD at UCSF and post-doctoral work at University College London. She became groupleader at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics Dresden then Professor at the TU Dresden where from 2014-2016 was the Director of the Center for Regenerative Therapies. Since 2016 she has been a Senior Scientist at the Institute for Molecular Pathology, Vienna. Her work has focused on developing molecular genetics in the highly regenerative salamander, Amybstoma mexicanum, to understand the fundamental principles of limb and spinal cord...Read more