Alex obtained both his MSci (2008) and PhD (2012) from the Department of Chemistry, University of Bristol. After a short postdoc there, he moved to the Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, where he was a Research Associate until 2019. During this time, he was also a Visiting Researcher, at the Koch Institute for…

Bernard Henrissat is a CNRS Director of Research and working at the University of Marseille, France, where he heads the Glycogenomics research group and the CAZy database. He has obtained a Ph.D. in Chemistry in 1979 and a D.Sc. in Physical Sciences in 1985, both from the University of Grenoble, France. Over the years he…

Jean-Guy Berrin is a senior research scientist at INRA (Biotechnology and Biodiversity of Filamentous Fungi group, Marseille, France). His main interest is the study of fungal enzymes to improve plant biomass deconstruction, with focus on carbohydrate-active enzymes.

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…

Kevin Kaichuang Yang is a machine learning scientist at Generate Biosciences. Kevin completed his PhD with Frances Arnold in 2018 on machine learning for protein engineering. His research interests uncertainty quantification, Bayesian optimization, deep learning, and their applications to biological sequences. Prior to his PhD, Kevin earned a B.S. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at…

Luiz Juliano is currently a retired full professor at the Federal University of São Paulo. He participates in teaching and works in research at the AC Camargo Cancer Center, with an emphasis on interinstitutional relations and new developments. He has particular experience in the area of Biochemistry, with an emphasis on proteins, acting mainly on…

Márcia Barbosa is a full member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, of the World Academy of Sciences and a full professor at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. She has experience in Physics, with an emphasis on Condensed Matter Physics, working mainly in water. For the study of water anomalies, she won…

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…

The central research of Dr. Miguel Alcalde primarily focusses on the engineering of enzymes by directed evolution for a wide range of environmental, energy and industrial applications (www.miguelalcaldelab.eu). Dr. Alcalde is biologist by the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain (1993) with M.Sc in Plant Physiology (1994). In 1999, he completed his PhD in Biochemistry and…

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…

Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina