Dr. Jusiak is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at the University of California Irvine. Her lab has two major focus areas: programming macrophages with synthetic gene circuits against cancer and using the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) as a model system for cancer-host interactions. She earned her PhD in Developmental Biology from Dr. Graeme Mardon’s lab at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, where she studied transcriptional regulation of eye development in Drosophila...Read more
David Truong is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering, and in the Department of Pathology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. He received a B.S. from University of California, San Diego, a Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Austin, and NIGMS F32-supported postdoctoral training with Dr. Jef D. Boeke at NYU Langone Health. Prior to starting his research group, he was a founding team member of Neochromosome Inc (later acquired by Opentrons Robotics) with support of an NIAID small business...Read more
Dr. Peter Yingxiao Wang, Department Chair, Dwight C. and Hildagarde E. Baum Professor, Alfred E. Mann Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, USA; Email: ywang283@usc.edu; Phone: 217-898-2810
Dr. Wang obtained his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Mechanics and Fluid Mechanics from Peking...Read more
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Julian is a functional genomics aficionado with >20 publications and patent applications. During his graduate and post-doctoral studies, he developed novel functional genomics tools for target identification, conducting >70 genome-wide shRNA and CRISPR screens. He also played a key role in creating the Vienna Bioactivity CRISPR (VBC) algorithm for scoring sgRNA designs. As a team leader at a biotech company, he launched and refined the company’s genome engineering and CROP-Seq technology. Now he fuses his passion for functional genomics and problem-solving with Twist’s synthetic DNA...Read more
