Simão Soares is CEO and co-founder of SilicoLife, a company combining AI and biology for the design of cell factories and novel pathways for the sustainable production of chemicals. MSc Bioinformatics (UMinho), postgraduate in management from NOVA School of Business and Economics and trained in Blue Ocean Strategy at INSEAD. He is also President of P-BIO, Portuguese…
Maria is a Strain Engineer at Ginkgo Bioworks (Boston-USA), where she makes biology easier to engineer by building an automated foundry to design and deliver organisms. Enthusiastic about programming DNA since she was 16, Maria co-founded a synthetic biology hub in Amazonas-Brazil. Currently, she’s engineering yeast as a triterpenoid manufacturing platform, leveraging machine learning, high-throughput…
Prof Jean Marie FRANÇOIS is full professor of Industrial Microbiology and BioNanotechnology at Federal University of Toulouse, School of Engineer. His research activity concerns integrated physiology and functional genomics in microbial systems, with a specific focus on genetic and metabolic regulation and refactoring carbon and energy metabolism towards production of bio-based chemicals for renewable carbon…