June 2012

Dr. Hal Alper is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. He earned his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from MIT in 2006 and was a postdoctoral research associate at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research from 2006-2008, and at Shire Human Genetic Therapies from 2007-2008. He is currently the Principal Investigator of the Laboratory for Cellular and Metabolic Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin where his lab focuses on metabolic and cellular engineering in the context of biofuel, biochemical, and biopharmaceutical production in an array...Read more

Dr. Boone received his Ph.D. in molecular biology in 1989 from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He then did postdoctoral research in yeast genetics at the Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon, in Eugene and, in 1993, founded his own research lab at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada. In 1999, he received the Ontario Government’s Premier's Research Excellence Award. He is also a recipient of the William E. Rawls Award for Research Excellence of the National Cancer Institute of Canada, the 2003 Merck Frosst...Read more

David Schaffer is a Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Bioengineering, and Neuroscience at University of California, Berkeley, where he also serves as the Director of the Berkeley Stem Cell Center. He graduated from Stanford University with a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering in 1993. Afterward, he attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology and earned his Ph.D. also in Chemical Engineering in 1998 with Professor Doug Lauffenburger. While at M.I.T., Dave minored in Molecular and Cell Biology. Finally, he did a postdoctoral fellowship in the laboratory of Fred Gage at...Read more