Dr. Yinjie Tang did his BS/MS in chemical engineering at Tianjin University. He obtained his PhD at University of Washington and his research was on kinetic modeling of marine sediment remediation. He did his postdoc at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He joined Washington University In 2008 and was promoted to full professor in 2018. His research focuses on algal engineering, metabolic flux analysis, and process modeling.
Katia Tarasava is a synthetic biologist working on engineering bacteria to produce and degrade plastics. She got her BA in Biochemistry from Colorado College and a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Colorado Boulder. She is now able to combine these two fields of expertise in her current postdoctoral research at the University of South Florida in Tampa, FL. Katia likes to travel, hike and rock climb, learn about crazy microbes and write about science.
Taylor Ware is an Assistant Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Texas at Dallas. Prior to joining UT Dallas in August 2015, he graduated summa cum laude with his B.S. from the Georgia Institute of Technology (2009) and with his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Dallas (2013) in Materials Science and Engineering. Taylor completed postdoctoral training (2013-2015) at the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate at the Air Force Research Laboratory. His research interests include biomaterials, liquid crystal materials, living materials, flexible and stretchable electronics, and the interfacing of these technologies. Dr. Ware was a recipient of the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (2011), the Air Force Young Investigator Award (2017), and the NSF CAREER award (2018). He is also a member of several professional societies, co-inventor of three awarded patents, and author or co-author of more than 50 scientific publications.
EBRC Annual Meeting Poster Hall & Live Poster Session
Virtual Meeting
In lieu of a poster session at the Annual Meeting, we are organizing a virtual “poster hall” that will be available from March 31 through April 3. On March 31, links to view posters will be provided to those registered for our virtual annual meeting.
On Thursday April 2 from 1:30pm – 3:00pm PST, we will host a Live Poster Session. Poster presenters will be divided into Zoom meeting rooms. Poster viewers will receive a list of poster presenters and associated Zoom links and may enter Zoom rooms to ask questions and hear more about the work of the presenter.
EBRC Roadmapping Working Group
Virtual Meeting
Friday, April 3, 2020
11:00am – 1:00pm PST
We will discuss the dissemination and impact of the 2019 Roadmap (published June 2019), and review and discuss the progress, current status, and upcoming efforts of the 2020 Roadmaps: Materials from Engineering Biology and Microbiomes Engineering. Please join us to learn more about these roadmaps and how EBRC members can contribute.
Participation instructions will be sent to you via email prior to the meeting date.
EBRC SPA SBIR Workshop
Virtual Meeting
Friday, April 3, 2020
9:00am – 11:00pm PST
How to Apply for a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Grant
Are you a graduate student or postdoc interested in entrepreneurship or looking to commercialize your research? Join the SPA for a panel on the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, a federal program that provides funding for startups and small businesses to engage in innovative research and development with commercialization potential. Our panel features Dr. Erik Pierstorff (SBIR/STTR Program Director at the National Science Foundation), Dr. Rachel Jordan (Research Scientist at Lynntech, Inc.), and Dr. Michael Heffernan (Principal at Fannin Innovation Studio).
Participation instructions will be sent to you via email prior to the meeting date.
EBRC Policy & International Engagement Working Group
Virtual Meeting
Friday, April 3, 2020
9:00am – 11:00am PST
The policy & international engagement working group will provide a recap of recent actions and events, including the 2019 Global Forum for Engineering Biology, and discuss efforts to engage the community around relevant policy and international issues. The discussion will focus on developing actions for the working group to focus on for the rest of the EBRC year. We are actively recruiting new and interested EBRC members and welcome anyone interested in this topical area.
Participation instructions will be sent to you via email prior to the meeting date.
EBRC Education Working Group
Virtual Meeting
Thursday, April 2, 2020
11:00am – 1:00pm PST
We will discuss recent and on-going efforts in EBRC Education and Outreach, including the EBRC YouTube channel, current development of agile curriculum modules for engineering biology higher education, and future programs for engineering biology education in the K-12 landscape. Participants can expect to review and/or contribute to the curriculum modules and other plans.
Participation instructions will be sent to you via email prior to the meeting date.
EBRC Security Working Group
Virtual Meeting
Thursday, April 2, 2020
9:00am – 11:00pm PST
The Security Working Group Chairman will provide a short presentation on the background and purpose of the Group. Dr. Mackelprang will talk about her project and provide some questions about the security ontology project. The majority of the time will be spent on discussions on the Malice Analysis program. This will include updates on the roadshow in light of the COVID-19 outbreak, as well as discussions on how to adapt the program for industry and funders of research.
Participation instructions will be sent to you via email prior to the meeting date.
PhD student in Biochemistry and Cell Biology at Rice University. I graduated from Peruvian University Cayetano Heredia in Lima, Peru with BSc in Biology. My current research focused in the optimization of bacterial CRISPR activator systems in James Chappell laboratory.
With in-depth knowledge and expertise (6+ years) relating to microbial fermentation, metabolic engineering and synthetic biology, along with excellent leadership skills and ability to contribute collaboratively, I am seeking a process development for microbial fermentation position. I expect to complete my Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at Arizona State University during Spring 2020.
I have had the opportunity to work in many key bioprocess areas which range from strain engineering to process development. As an indication of my proficiency and broad technical knowledge in fermentation, to date I have published 1 lead author research publication, 4 co-author research publications, 1 lead review paper, 1 lead author book chapter.
R. Alta Charo (Harvard, BA biology 1979; Columbia, JD law 1982) is a 2019-2020 Berggruen Fellow at CASBS, and the Warren P. Knowles Professor of Law and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin, writing on medical ethics and biotechnology regulatory policy. In government, she served as a legal analyst for the former congressional Office of Technology Assessment, policy analyst for the US Agency for International Development and senior policy advisor in the FDA’s Office of the Commissioner. She was a member of the National Bioethics Advisory Commission under President Clinton, and the transition team for President Obama. Charo is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, and co-chaired its committee on Guidelines for Embryonic Stem Cell Research and its 2017 committee on Human Genome Editing: Science, Ethics and Governance. At present, she is a member of the World Health Organization’s committee on global governance of genome editing, of the Nuclear Threat Initiative’s Biosecurity Innovation and Risk Reduction project, and of the steering committee of the International Society for Stem Cell Research’s effort to revise and expand its guidelines for ethical research, including research on chimeras and organoids.
Kenza loves anythying hardware/software/biology related, and preferably works across these disciplines. She’s a PhD candidate at the Center of Applied Synthetic Biology at Concordia University, with an M.Sc. in Bioengineering from KU Leuven (Belgium) and is currently focused on developing novel microfluidic devices for single-cell engineering and analysis. Kenza also sits on the SynBio Canada board, is involved with iGEM as a judge and instructor and is active in community biology.
Dr. Eloe-Fadrosh joined the JGI in 2014 to pursue her research interests in microbial ecology and metagenomics. Her current research focuses on leveraging thousands of metagenomic datasets from host-associated and environmental samples to identify novel microbial life and viral diversity. Prior to joining the JGI, she was a Bioinformatics Program Fellow at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation as part of the Marine Microbiology Initiative. She conducted her postdoctoral training in human microbiome research at the Institute for Genome Sciences at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. She stepped into the Metagenome Program lead position in 2017. She additionally leads the National Microbiome Data Collaborative, a multi-lab partnership that support microbiome data exploration through a sustainable data discovery platform that promotes open science across a broad and diverse community of researchers, funders, publishers, and scientific societies.