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Katie Geiger-Schuller

I am a Senior Scientist at Genentech Research and Early Development with 12 years of research experience. I have a very unique skill set and a broad understanding of biology across multiple scales: from the forces dominating protein folding and governing molecular interactions, to the rules regulating cellular circuitry impacting physiology in health and disease. I see clearly how the right biological systems, collaborations, and access to patient data would create a new opportunity to identify the molecular culprits and lynchpins in disease. I’m interested in using the tools I developed...Read more

Rodolphe Barrangou

Rodolphe Barrangou Ph.D. is the T. R. Klaenhammer Distinguished Professor at North Carolina State University. Barrangou is focusing on the characterization of CRISPR-Cas systems, and their applications in bacteria, especially their use for the study and development of probiotics, including for genotyping, phage resistance, screening, genome editing and antimicrobials.

Rodolphe spent 9 years in R&D and M&A at Danisco and DuPont, and has been at NC State since 2013. For his CRISPR work, Rodolphe received several international awards, notably the Canada Gairdner International...Read more

Yiping Qi

Dr. Yiping Qi is an associate professor at the Department of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture at the University of Maryland, College Park. He received a BS degree in Microbiology from Nankai University, an MS degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and a Ph.D. degree in Plant Biology from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Dr. Qi is an expert on plant genome engineering. Funded by federal and private agencies, his lab has developed many CRISPR genome editing and reprogramming tools for enabling foundational and translational research...Read more

Sriram Sathyanarayanan

Ben Adler

Ben Adler is a postdoctoral researcher in the Doudna lab studying how diverse CRISPR-Cas biochemistries impact phage infection and how to leverage these activities to unravel the diverse genetic content they encode. He obtained undergraduate degrees in Bioengineering and Biochemistry/Cell Biology at Rice University, followed by a PhD in Bioengineering at UC-Berkeley/UC-San Francisco in the Arkin lab. Outside of the lab, Ben is an avid home cook, origami-ist, and chili pepper gardener.Read more

Brady Cress

Brady Cress leads research on microbiome editing technologies at the Innovative Genomics Institute at UC Berkeley. Research in his lab focuses on engineering microbial communities to address global challenges associated with human health and climate change. To accomplish this, he is developing CRISPR genome editing and DNA delivery technologies that are specialized for targeted manipulation of microorganisms in the context of their natural communities, expanding beyond the paradigm of performing genetics exclusively on isolated species. These technological platforms aim to efficiently...Read more

Nicole D. Marino

Nicole is a post-doc in the Bondy-Denomy lab identifying and characterizing novel class II anti-CRISPR proteins. She obtained her undergraduate degree in Biochemistry/Cell Biology and Classical Studies at Rice University in Texas. She completed her graduate work in John Boothroyd’s Lab at Stanford University, where she studied how Toxoplasma gondii transports effector proteins into the host cell. In her free time, she enjoys exploring live music and comedy shows in San Francisco and dancing Argentine tango.Read more

Mitchell O'Connell

Dr. Mitchell O’Connell is an Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at University of Rochester and a member of the Center for RNA Biology. Mitchell obtained his PhD in Biochemistry at the University of Sydney under the supervision of Prof. Joel Mackay, where he studied RNA-binding zinc fingers and used combinatorial techniques to design artificial zinc fingers with new RNA-binding specificities. After completing his PhD, Mitchell was a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Dr. Jennifer Doudna at the University of California, Berkeley, where he made a number of discoveries related...Read more

Ailong Ke

Dr. Ailong Ke received his B.S. degree from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1995, and Ph.D. in Biophysics with Cynthia Wolberger from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 2002. After a three-year post-doctoral training with Nobel Laureate Dr. Jennifer Doudna at UC Berkeley, he started his independent career as an Assistant Professor at Cornell University in 2005 and rose to Full Professor in 2017. Since independence, Dr. Ke has been working in the areas of RNA 3’-end processing and degradation, metabolite-sensing...Read more

Peter Fineran

Peter Fineran is a Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Otago, New Zealand and leads the Phage-host interactions (Phi) laboratory. He obtained a BSc (Hons) in Biochemistry from the University of Canterbury, NZ, then completed his PhD and post-doctoral training at the University of Cambridge, UK. Peter’s group researches the interactions between bacteriophages, other mobile elements and their bacterial hosts – in particular in the area of CRISPR-Cas and phage defence. Peter has received many awards in recognition of his research, including the...Read more

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