Raj Judge, corporate partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. Raj Judge is a corporate partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. Raj specializes in corporate and securities law for technology companies and advises on venture financings, IPOs, and mergers and acquisitions. He has been involved in over 500 transactions during the [...]
Christophe Schilling, CEO, co-founder of Genomatica Christophe founded Genomatica in 1998. Since being named CEO in May 2009, he has led Genomatica to widespread recognition as a leader in industrial biotech, with a commercialized first process and plant and multiple leading partners. The company has earned awards for industry impact (recognized in [...]
Bill Peck, CTO at Twist Bioscience. Bill Peck is an expert in managing difficult technology projects and delivering robust scalable biological manufacturing processes. At Complete Genomics he developed sequencer fluidics systems, including silicon nano-array flowcell, and oversaw instrument integration into Human Genome Sequencing Factory. At Agilent, Bill architected two generations of their [...]
Rob Brown, Vice President, Phototrophic Systems at Synthetic Genomics. Rob Brown leads SGI’s world-class phototrophic strain development group. When he joined in 2007, Dr. Brown built a multifunctional team in the design and development of microbes for the production of advanced biofuels. Dr. Brown has over 20 years of experience in molecular [...]
Ruth Shuman, Program Director for Biological Technologies in the SBIR/STTR Program, National Science Foundation. Ruth Shuman joined the National Science Foundation in August 2009 as a Program Director for Biological Technologies in the SBIR/STTR Program. Before coming to NSF, she was the founder, president, and CEO of a successful venture-backed life science [...]
Kristen Brown, Future of Health Reporter at Bloomberg.
John Sundman, Writer. John Sundman is an award-winning novelist and essayist whose books explore implications of new technologies. He has spoken at SynBioBeta Edinburgh and at the DEFCON hacker convention on Art, Ethics and Synthetic Biology. His in-depth interviews with synthetic biology pioneers George Church, Tom Knight, Paul Berg and others are [...]
Hugh Goold, Professional Officer Yeast 2.0/Macquarie University Honorary Research Associate at New South Wales Department of Primary Industries. Dr. Hugh Goold is a researcher working for the New South Wales Department of Primary Industries of Australia. Hugh is currently constructing the synthetic Chromosome XVI of Yeast 2.0 at Macquarie University and is [...]
Ross Zirkle, Director, Biotechnology Innovation at DSM Nutritional Products Ross Zirkle is Director, Biotechnology Innovation at DSM Nutritional Products in Columbia, MD and currently responsible for leading innovation for DSM’s biotechnology projects and products. Ross had previously led R&D activities focused on developing new and improved strains of microalgae to produce nutritional [...]
Oliver Yu, Co-Founder and CEO of Conagen. Dr. Yu has a B. Sc. from Dept. of Biophysics at the Fudan University in Shanghai, and a Ph. D. from Department of Biology at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina. His postdoctoral training was at the DuPont Company in Wilmington, Delaware. He [...]
