Our efforts are supported by a wide range of select individuals who assisted in a variety of capacities. The organizations listed are ones they represented at the time of the program.
ALAN PEARSON - US Department of Agriculture
ALEX DEHGAN - Conservation X Labs
ALICIA JACKSON - Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
ANDREW MAYNARD - Arizona State University
ANDREW ROBERTSON - Merck
ANDREW ZOLLI - PopTech
ANNE-MARIE MAZZA - The National Academies
BARBARA GERRATANA - National Institutes of Health
BEN CORB - American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
CATHERINE COLEMAN - National Aeronautical Space Administration (NASA)
CAMILLE ACEY - Boundless
CHRISTINA AGAPAKIS - Ginkgo Bioworks
DAHLIA SOKOLOV - US House of Representatives Committee Staff (D)
DAN WIDMAIER - Bolt Threads
DANA PERLS - Friends of the Earth
DANIEL GRUSHKIN - Biodesign Challenge
DAVID SUN KONG - MIT Lincoln Laborator
DAVID REJESKI - Woodrow Wilson Center
DENNEAL JAMISON-MCCLUNG - University of California, Davis
DIRK STEMERDING - Rathenau Instituut
DREW ENDY - BioBricks Foundation
EDWARD YOU Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
EMMA FROW - Arizona State University
FRANK STEIN - IBM
G. NAGESH RAO - Small Business Administration
GABRIEL HARP - XPlane
GARY BENZION - US Patent and Trademark Office
GENYA DANYA - US Department of State
GREGORY KOBLENTZ - George Mason University
GWEN MCCLUNG - US Environmental Protection Agency
HEMAI PARTHASARATHY - Thiel Foundation
JANE CALVERT - Edinburgh University
JASON KELLY Ginkgo Bioworks
JEANNE BRAHA - American Association for the Advancement of Science
JEFF MORRIS - US Environmental Protection Agency
JENNY BRYAN - Arizona State University
JESSICA TUCKER - National Institutes of Health
JIM AJIOKA - Cambridge University
JOHN CUMBERS - SynBioBeta
KARMELLA HAYNES - Arizona State University
KELLY DRINKWATER - iGEM Foundation
KEN OYE - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
KENNETH BERNARD - Independent
KIM MONTGOMERY - US House of Representatives Committee Staff (D)
KINKEAD REILING - Independent
LARISA RUDENKO - Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
LINDA KAHL - BioBricks Foundation
LINDSAY CHURA - UK Science & Innovation Network
LIONEL CLARKE - UK Synthetic Biology Leadership Council (SBLC)
LLOYD TIMBERLAKE - Independent
MAHMUD FAROOQUE - Center for Science Policy and Outcomes
MARC FACCIOTTI - UC Davis
MARGARET MELLON - Union of Concerned Scientists
MARK BÜNGER - Lux Research
MARK SEGAL - US Environmental Protection Agency
MICHAL GALDZICKI - Arzeda, Sound Bio
NANCY BURGESS - U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
NATALIE KULDELL - BioBuilder Educational Foundation
NATHAN HILLSON - Joint BioEnergy Institute
PABLO RABINOWICZ - US Department of Energy
PATRICK BOYLE - Ginkgo BioWorks
PATRICK WINDHAM - Technology Policy International
PAUL FREEMONT - SynbiCITE
PIERS MILLET - Biosecure Ltd., Woodrow Wilson Center
REID WILLIAMS - Ideo
RICHARD JOHNSON - Global Helix
RICHARD KITNEY - SynbiCITE
RICHARD MURRAY - Independent
RICHARD YAMADA - Committee on Science, Space and Technology, (R)
RINA SINGH - Biotechnology Industry Organization
ROBBIE BARBERO - Office of Science & Technology Policy
ROB CARLSON - BioEconomy Capita
ROCCO CASSAGRANDE - Gryphon Scientific
RYAN RITTERSON - Gryphon Scientific
SAMUEL WEISS EVANS - Harvard Kennedy School
SARA OLSEN - Social Venture Technology (SVT)
SARAH CARTER - J Craig Venter Institute
SARAH MUNRO - National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
SCOTT SCHWARZ - SNP Communications
SPENCER ADLER - Bioeconomy Capital
STEPHAN HERRERA - Evolva
STEPHEN LADERMAN - Agilent Technologies
STEVE BATES - UK BioIndustry Association (BIA)
STEVE EVANS - Dow AgroSciences
THERESA GOOD - US National Science Foundation
TIM DAFFORN - UK Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS)
TODD KHOZEIN - Second Muse
TODD KUIKEN - Woodrow Wilson Center
TOM ARMEL - Quantitative Scientific Solutions, DARPA
VEL PRAKHANTREE - EchoUser
WALTER VALDIVIA - Brookings Institution
WILLIAM BONVILLIAN - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
WILLIAM SO - Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)