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Appendix B: Biographical Sketches for Workshop Planning Committee and Participants
Pages 63-77

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From page 63...
... Tucker Professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the School of Biological Sciences (adjunct) at the Georgia Institute of Technology and program faculty for the Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University.
From page 64...
... Prior to joining the University of Florida, she was a postdoctoral fellow and research associate at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. In her research program, she takes a biocultural approach that utilizes molecular genetic data to investigate questions about human evolution and disease, particularly diseases that show racial health disparities.
From page 65...
... His laboratory leverages a unique blend of iterative protein engineering and genetic engineering to design novel synthetic biological systems. Current efforts are focused on the area of engineering cooperative systems of functional proteins and cognate genetic elements to create intelligent microorganisms, next-generation biological security and bio-cryptography tools, living therapeutics, and next-generation biosynthesis and biomanufacturing technologies.
From page 66...
... His laboratory utilizes cutting-edge epigenomic approaches to study chromatin state changes and higher order chromatin structure during the evolution of tumor cells. Over the past 20 years, Rai has developed expertise in studying epigenetic processes by identifying factors that perform epigenetic functions and identifying their roles in cellular events that regulate normal organ development and abnormal cell growth during tumorigenesis.
From page 67...
... Her further work on bacteria–animal lateral gene transfer includes sequencing and analysis of numerous microbes, insects, nematode, mouse, and human genomes and transcriptomes as funded over the past decade through a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Transformative R01, an NIH New Innovator Award, and other NIH, National Science Foundation, and private foundation awards.
From page 68...
... MICROBIOME WORKSHOP Moderators Jo Handelsman is the director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, a Vilas Research Professor, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor. She previously served as a science advisor to President Barack Obama as the associate director for science at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, where she served for 3 years until January 2017, and was on the faculty at the University of Wisconsin– Madison and Yale University before that.
From page 69...
... Rosalina Christova is the project director of the Primary Algae Laboratory at California State University San Marcos. The Primary Algae Laboratory is part of the Surface Water Ambient Monitoring Program and is funded by the California Water Resources Control Board.
From page 70...
... She conducted her National Science Foundation minority postdoctoral fellowship at San Diego State University with Forest Rohwer from 2006 to 2009. Jizhong Zhou4 is the George Lynn Cross Research Professor and the director of the Institute for Environmental Genomics at the University of Oklahoma.
From page 71...
... Adamala's postdoctoral work in Ed Boyden's Synthetic Neurobiology group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology focused on developing novel methods for multiplex control and readout of mammalian cells. Eric Gaucher was hired as an associate professor by the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2008, where his group conducts basic and applied research at the interface of molecular evolution and synthetic biology.
From page 72...
... She went on to complete her PhD in applied physics at Stanford University in 2006, where she modularly engineered myosin molecular motors to explain how molecular structure supports mechanical force generation. As a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, San Francisco, she next probed how biological macromolecules self-organize to generate force at the cellular, rather than molecular, length-scale in the mitotic spindle.
From page 73...
... The micro-nano-bio laboratory under Tang's direction aims to develop innovative micro- and nanoscale devices that enable precise manipulation, measurement, and recapitulation of biological systems in order to understand the "rules of life" and accelerate precision medicine and material design for a future with better health and environmental sustainability. Tang was a Stanford Biodesign Faculty Fellow in 2018, and her work has been recognized by multiple awards, including the National Science Foundation CAREER Award and an invited lecture at the Nobel Symposium on Microfluidics in Sweden.
From page 74...
... The Carothers research group combines computational modeling, CRISPR technology development, and RNA aptamer biosensor engineering for applications in synthetic biology. The group's main goals are to understand biological design principles and to engineer biology to produce industrially and medically important chemicals and materials.
From page 75...
... Examples of ongoing research in the Freedman laboratory include investigations to better understand how the forest soil carbon sink will respond to reduced rates of anthropogenic nitrogen deposition, how cropping system decisions affect the production and stabilization of soil carbon, and whether generalizable rules of life govern the succession of microbial communities across systems. Emma Frow is an associate professor at Arizona State University, where she holds a joint appointment with the School for the Future of Innovation in Society and the School of Biological & Health Systems Engineering.
From page 76...
... Before joining Colorado State University, Szymanski served as a postdoctoral researcher in science and technology studies at the University of Edinburgh, following a PhD in science communication, an MA in rhetoric and writing studies, and an MS in microbiology. She writes for diverse scientific, social scientific, humanities, and popular audiences, including a popular wine science book (but also informed by feminist and multispecies science studies)
From page 77...
... Appendix B 77 computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, and in mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania. She received a PhD in statistics from the University of Chicago and a BS in mathematics from Fudan University.


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