Speaker Profile
Biography
Jay Keasling is the Philomathia Professor of Alternative Energy at the University of California, Berkeley in the Departments of Bioengineering and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, senior faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Chief Executive Officer of the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI). Dr. Keasling’s research focuses on the metabolic engineering of microorganisms for degradation of environmental contaminants or for environmentally friendly synthesis of drugs, chemicals, and fuels. Keasling received a B.S. in Chemistry and Biology from the University of Nebraska and M.S. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan, and did post-doctoral research in biochemistry at Stanford University. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Inventors.
Session Abstract – PMWC 2023 Silicon Valley
Track Chair: Cindy Lawley, Olink
- How New Public-Private Collaboratives Can Catalyze Transformative Health Breakthroughs
Chair: Keith Yamamoto, UCSF
- Douglas Friedman, Engineering Biology Research Consortium (EBRC)
- Jay Keasling, JBEI (Joint BioEnergy Institute)
- Renee Wegrzyn, ARPA-H - Moving Sequencing into the Clinical Setting
Chair: Charles Chiu, UCSF
- Charlotte Hobbs, Rady Children’s Hospital
- Euan Ashley, Stanford University
- Sivan Bercovici, Karius
- Heike Sichtig, Foundation Medicine - Evolving Sequencing Applications: Spatial Single-Cell Multi-Omics
Chair: Michael Rhodes, NanoString
- Chrstina Curtis, Stanford - How will Cheap Genome Sequencing Impact Genomic Medicine (PANEL)
Chair: Euan Ashley, Stanford
- Shawn Levy, Element Biosciences
- Aleks Rajkovic, UCSF
- David Bentley, Illumina
- Stacey Gabriel, Broad Inst.
- Sean Hofherr, Fabric Genomics - Single-cell, Spatial, and in Situ Technologies
Chair: Dina Finan, 10x Genomics
- Carina Emery, Miltenyi Biotec - Combining WGS with a AI-based Tumor Enrichment Method
Chair: Asaf Zviran, C2I
- Multi-omics Approaches Supporting Clinical Translation
Chair: Cindy Lawley, Olink
- Erin Smith, Takeda
- Si Wu, Stanford
- Christopher Whelan, J&J - Molecular Diagnosis New standard with NGS for Neurological and Infectious Conditions
Chair: Scott Rabuka, DNA Genotek
- Forrest Wright, Quadrant Laboratories
- Frank Middleton, SUNY Upstate Medical University - PMWC Showcase
- Josh Lauer, Ultime
- Olivier Lucas, Oxford Nanopore
- Lukasz Boryn, Ardigen