Emina A. Stojković obtained a BA degree in chemistry from St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN. From the University of Chicago, she received a PhD degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Following a postdoctoral fellowship in the laboratory of Dr. Keith Moffat at the University of Chicago, Emina assumed the professorship in the Department of Biology at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago, IL. She is currently co-director of NIH Maximizing Access to Research Careers (MARC) training grant, the only one of its kind in the state...Read more
Daria Shcherbakova received M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Chemistry from Moscow State University. During her Ph.D., she studied ribonucleoproteins. As a postdoc in the lab of Professor Verkhusha at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, she switched interest to studies of light-sensing proteins. Her postdoctoral work resulted in a development of a widely used series of near-infrared fluorescent proteins named (m)iRFPs.
Currently she is a Research Assistant Professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Department of Genetics. Her research focuses on engineering of natural photoreceptors...Read more
Pascal Hersen (CNRS, Institut Curie) is a physicist, senior group leader and director of the Physics of Cells and Cancer laboratory (UMR168, Institut Curie, PSL, CNRS, Sorbonne Université). His research team develops methods in microscopy, microfabrication and synthetic biology to study the physics of living cells and specifically how information flows in cellular processes. He is a pioneer in the field of Cybergenetics, a field of research at the interface of control theory and synthetic biology which aims at taking control of cellular processes in real time thanks to external...Read more
tcbiomass2024 focuses on the science of thermochemical conversion of biomass and municipal solid waste (MSW) to renewable methane, LPG, liquid fuels, and chemicals.
Naomi Handly, Ph.D. is the VP of Platform at Octant, Inc. Octant focuses on building medicines for diseases with complex cellular mechanisms using a novel chemical biology platform. Naomi received her Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego under Roy Wollman quantifying how cells communicate with one another to determine their position in relation to a wound. Naomi serves on the BYU Chemistry & Biochemistry Advisory Board. She's passionate about bringing science to the public through effective scientific communication and meaningful technological...Read more
Shawdee Eshghi leads Ginkgo’s portfolio of mammalian gene editing and cell therapy programs. She has been building the Mammalian Foundry at Ginkgo since its inception in 2019 and serves as technical leader for diverse projects in synthetic receptor design, discovery of synthetic regulatory elements and high throughput genome editing. Prior to Ginkgo, Shawdee was most recently at Caribou Biosciences, where she helped build the Cas9 gene editing platform and led assay development for the company’s first allogeneic CAR-T product. Shawdee completed a...Read more
Program Please join us at this signature event as we continue our annual tradition of awarding scholarships to local high school students pursuing careers in chemical engineering. This year we are awarding a scholarship to Paige Mattucci, a senior at East Pennsboro High School. She will be...Read more
