March 2025

Michael Baym is a microbiologist and applied mathematician studying bacterial evolution and computational genomics. His lab at Harvard Medical School, where he is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Biomedical Informatics and Microbiology, uses synthetic and computational techniques to study the microbial evolution with a focus on the horizontal transfer of antibiotic resistance. His contributions include the Mega-plate device for visualizing the evolution of antibiotic resistance, algorithms for extremely large microbial genomic datasets, and discoveries from phage biology to...Read more

Dr. Mingfei Zhao is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Alabama, joining in August 2024. She earned her bachelor's and master’s degrees from Shandong University and her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from SUNY Binghamton. She completed postdoctoral training at the University of Chicago and Los Alamos National Laboratory. Dr. Zhao's research focuses on multiscale computational modeling to advance the design of bioinspired functional nanomaterials.Read more

Arvind Ramanathan is a computational biologist in the Data Science and Learning Division at Argonne National Laboratory and a senior scientist at the University of Chicago Consortium for Advanced Science and Engineering (CASE). His research interests are at the intersection of data science, high performance computing and biological/biomedical sciences. His research focuses on the development of for analysis and development of adaptive multi-scale molecular simulations for studying complex biological phenomena using generative artificial intelligence (AI...Read more