Individual Members
Margaret Kosal
Margaret E. Kosal is Professor (as of August 2025) of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her research uses theories and concepts from the social sciences, primarily international […]
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Edward Kalkreuter started as an Assistant Professor in Chemistry & Biochemistry at Florida State University in 2024. He received his BS in Chemistry at Emory University and his PhD in […]
More →Taylor Nichols
Taylor is an accomplished scientist and engineer with over a decade of experience across academia and industry developing strategic research initiatives, managing collaborative projects, and driving technical project management. As […]
More →Lauren Rajakovich
Lauren received her B.S. in Chemistry from Wake Forest University in 2011, working in the laboratory of Patricia Dos Santos. Lauren earned her Ph.D. in Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology […]
More →Daniela Matias de Carvalho Bittencourt
Dr. Daniela Matias de C. Bittencourt is a researcher at Embrapa Genetic Resources and Biotechnology and an adjunct researcher at the J. Craig Venter Institute. With over 17 years of […]
More →Ashty Karim
Ashty Karim is an assistant professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Northwestern University. With a foundation in chemical engineering and synthetic biology, he has worked in cell-free systems for […]
More →Pavel Dvořák
Pavel Dvořák, Ph.D. He is currently an associate professor at Masaryk University (MUNI), Brno, Czech Republic, and group leader at the Microbial Bioengineering Laboratory (MBL). Pavel Dvořák is a molecular […]
More →James Coker
James Coker is the Director of the Center for Biotechnology Education, which is a part of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University. As a Professor […]
More →Kyle Lauersen
Dr. Kyle J. Lauersen is an Associate Professor (effective July 1, 2025) at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia. His group is named Sustainable […]
More →Lin Su
Dr. Lin Su is a Lecturer in Engineering Biology at the School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences, Queen Mary University of London. Prior to this role, he served as a […]
More →Sonja Billerbeck
Sonja Billerbeck studied Biochemistry and Microbiology at the University of Tübingen, Germany, completing her Master’s thesis at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology (Protein Evolution Department, Lab of Andrei […]
More →Joanna Tannous
Joanna Tannous is an associate staff scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee, USA, where she works within the Synthetic Biology group of the Biosciences Division and the […]
More →Yalin Li
I am an Assistant Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rutgers University. My research integrates experimental and computational approaches to enhance the sustainability of water and energy systems and […]
More →Nicholas Sandoval
Nicholas Sandoval is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Tulane University. Prior to joining the faculty, Dr. Sandoval was a postdoctoral researcher in the […]
More →Robert Speight
Dr Robert Speight is Director of the Advanced Engineering Biology (AEB) Future Science Platform (FSP) at Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia’s national science agency. CSIRO works with […]
More →Sara Molinari
Dr. Sara Molinari graduated from the Systems, Synthetic and Physical Biology Ph.D. program at Rice University with a thesis on programming differentiation in bacteria. This work enabled the creation of […]
More →Wheaton Schroeder
Wheaton Schroeder is a new Assistant Professor at Washington State University in the Voiland School of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering (started in August 2024). His research lab specializes in computational […]
More →Leopold Green
Leo Green is an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Purdue University. His research program converges DNA nanotechnology, microbiome engineering, and computational models to design bacterial theanostics.
More →James Saenz
Research Summary My lab’s research merges my unique background in geochemistry and microbiology and my interest in synthetic biology and bioengineering to unravel and harness the role of lipids in […]
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