The development of CRISPR systems to facilitate the editing of genomes has created great excitement and inspired new ideas in engineering biology. While transformative, first-generation CRISPR...
Aaron Kimball is the Chief Technology Officer at Zymergen, where he leads the Technology department, developing Zymergen's end-to-end biofacturing R&D platform that leverages software, data science, bioinformatics, and lab automation.
Prior to joining Zymergen, Aaron co-founded WibiData, and he was the first employee at Cloudera. Aaron holds a BS from Cornell University and an MS from the University of Washington, both in Computer Science. He holds several patents on predictive modeling for microbial engineering.
This workshop describes the concepts and implications of privilege and bias, discusses the climate for LGBTQ+ individuals in STEM and ways that allies can support LGBTQ+ students and colleagues, and...
This workshop describes key LGBTQ+ terminology and concepts, explores LGBTQ+ identity development and the coming out process, and offers simple strategies for being an ally and building an inclusive...
Dr. Andrew Ellington received his B.S. in Biochemistry from Michigan State University in 1981, and his Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Harvard in 1988. His post-doctoral work was with Dr. Jack Szostak at Massachusetts General Hospital, where he developed methods for the in vitro selection of functional nucleic acids and coined the term 'aptamer.' He originally received the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator, Cottrell, and Pew Scholar awards, and later was a Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellow of the DoD and a Howard Hughes Professor. Dr. Ellington's lab works...Read more
Laura Segatori is an Associate Professor in Bioengineering at Rice University. She received a Laurea in Industrial Biotechnology from the University of Bologna, Italy in 2000 and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 2005. She conducted her postdoctoral work at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla California and joined the faculty at Rice University in 2007 where she holds joint appointments in the departments of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering and Biosciences. Her lab has been consistently funded by NSF (including the NSF CAREER Award), NIH...Read more
Starting this year (2021), Transport and Energy Processes (TEP) Division will be presenting graduate student awards to papers related to Transport Phenomena in the areas of renewable feedstocks, alternative and flexible fuels, energy efficiency, energy storage and conversion, and clean technologies.
