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Himadri Pakrasi, Professor, Washington University in St. Louis Cyanobacteria and other photosynthetic microorganisms hold great promise as cell factories for sustainable production of food, fuel, and materials. While these non-model organisms may be more difficult to work with as “chassis” strains for synthetic biology than certain heterotrophs, the unique advantages of autotrophs in biotechnology applications…

Rytas Vilgalys, Professor of Biology, Duke University Vilgalys is a pioneer in the use of DNA to study evolution and ecology of fungi. His publications are listed here. His recent research is focused on the obligately symbiotic, ectomycorrhizal association of the mushroom, Suillus, with Pine and the fungal endophyte system of Poplar. His recent publications…

Paula Welander, Associate Professor, Stanford University " Paula Welander is a microbiologist who received her undergraduate degree from Occidental College in Los Angeles. She pursued her PhD studies in microbiology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and completed her postdoctoral studies at MIT in the Departments of Biology and of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary…

Tim Van Opijnen, Associate Professor, Bonston College "Dr. van Opijnen received his Masters in evolutionary genetics from the University of Amsterdam, and as a graduate student he worked on the evolution of HIV at the Medical School of the University of Amsterdam. As a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Dr. Andrew Camilli at Tufts…