SPEAKERS

Ivana Haluskova Balter, PhD, Medical advisor for R&D and Science, French Society of Immunology

Nicholas Be, PhD, Deputy Group Leader, Genomics, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Cory Bernhards, PhD, Research Microbiologist, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, CCDC Chemical Biological Center

Roby Bhattacharyya, PhD., Assistant in Medicine, MGH Division of Infectious Diseases; Instructor, Harvard Medical School; Researcher, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Stacey Broomall, Chief, BioTechnology Branch, Edgewood Chemical Biological Center, U.S. Army

Sara Del Valle, PhD, Project Leader, Los Alamos National Lab

Alina Deshpande, PhD, Group Leader, Biosecurity and Public Health, Bioscience Division, Los Alamos

National Laboratory

Eric Garber, PhD, Division of Bioanalytical Chemistry, Office of Regulatory Science, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, FDA

Dylan George, Associate Director, B.Next, In-Q-Tel, Former Senior Advisor, Biological Threats Defense, Office of Science and Technology Policy, White House

Lallan Giri, PhD, CEO, Biologics Resources, LLC

Jason Harper, PhD, Senior Member of the Technical Staff, Bioenergy and Defense Technologies Department, Sandia National Laboratory

Steven Hatfill, PhD, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Division of Clinical Research and Leadership, George Washington University School of Medicine

David L. Hirschberg, PhD, Lecturer and Scientist, Department of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences and the Institute of Global Engagement, University of Washington, Tacoma

Chris Hoefler, PhD, Computational Biologist, Draper

Joany Jackman, PhD, Senior Scientist, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

Patrick Mcnutt, PhD, Principal Investigator, US Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense, USAMRICD

Luther Lindler, PhD, Chief Scientist, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Robert Meagher, PhD, Staff Scientist, Sandia National Laboratory

Harshini Mukundan, PhD, Team Leader, Chemistry Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Sam Nugen, PhD, Associate Professor, Food & Biosystems Engineering, Department of Food Science, Cornell University

Jason Paragas, PhD, Director, Innovation, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Timothy Reed, PhD, Microbiologist, U.S. Army

Lt. Nathanael Reynolds, Researcher, U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit, U.S. Navy

Jüergen Richt, PhD, Regents Distinguished Professor & KBA Eminent Scholar, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University

Yazmin Rivera, PhD, Molecular Biologist, USDA-APHIS

Alan Rudolph, PhD, Vice President for Research, Office of the Vice President for Research, Colorado State University

Cary A. Rue, PhD, Supervisory Microbiologist, FBI Laboratory 

Christopher Russell, Managing Partner, Global Systems Engineering

Wiriya Rutvisuttinunt, PhD, Principal Investigator, Viral Diseases Branch, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research

Peter Saama, PhD, Professor, Michigan State University

Jinzhao Song, PhD, Research Associate, University of Pennsylvania

David Stiefel, National Security Policy Analyst, Office of Homeland Security, USDA

Amber Taylor, Molecular Diagnostics R&D Manager, InDevR Inc.

Chris Taitt, PhD, Research Biologist, United States Naval Research Laboratory

David Ussery, PhD, Helen Adams & the Arkansas Research Alliance Chair in Biomedical Informatics, 

Director, Arkansas Center for Genomic Epidemiology & Medicine, Department of Biomedical

Informatics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

Guy Van Den Eede, Head of Unit, Knowledge for Health and Consumer Safety, Joint Research Centre (JRC), European Commission

Willy A. Valdivia-Granda, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Orion Integrated Biosciences Inc.

Neeraja Venkatesswaran, PhD, Senior Scientist, Tetracore

Zeev Wiesman, PhD, Professor, Biotechnology Engineering, Ben Gurion University