Sponsoring Societies of Life Sciences
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H. Chitsaz is assistant professor of Computer Science at Wayne State University, Detroit, MI. Prior to joining Wayne State University, Dr. Chitsaz was a postdoctoral scholar at University of California, San Diego where he initiated single-cell genome assembly in collaboration with Pavel Pevzner and Glenn …
Dr. Stephen Quake, D.Phil., is a Professor of Bioengineering and of Applied Physics at Stanford University. He pioneered the development of Microfluidic Large Scale Integration (LSI), demonstrating the first integrated microfluidic devices with thousands of mechanical valves. This technology is helping to pave the way …
(NOTE: William Heetderks bio and photo from NIBIB web site)
As a child, William Heetderks was fascinated with gadgets, especially radios. He says, “In those days, they had these little crystal radios. They had an antenna and a little diode that could take enough power out …
Geoffrey Luke is a graduate student in the Department of Electrical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. He received a B.S. in Computer Engineering and Mathematics and a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wyoming, where he developed a sensor based …
Stanislav Y. Emelianov (B.S. and Ph.D. from The Moscow State University, Russia) is currently a Professor and an Associate Chair for Research in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin where he directs the Ultrasound Imaging and Therapeutics Research Laboratory. …
Jean-Michel Escoffre earned his M.Sc. degrees in Vectorology, Gene Therapy, Vaccinology and Cell Biophysics in 2005 and 2006 respectively, at the University Paul Sabatier (Toulouse, France). He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Cell Biophysics in 2010 at the Institute of Pharmacology and Structural Biology (CNRS, …
Ayache Bouakaz graduated from the University of Sétif, Algeria, from the Department of Electrical Engineering. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in 1996 from the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon (INSA Lyon), France. In 1998, he joined the …
Dominique Schreurs received the M.Sc. degree and Ph.D. degree in electronic engineering from University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium. As post-doc fellow, she was visiting scientist with Agilent Technologies (USA), E.T.H. Zürich (Switzerland), and NIST (USA). She is now a Full Professor at KU Leuven. …
Ping Jack Soh was born in Sabah, Malaysia. He received the Bachelor and Master degrees in Electrical Engineering from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Johor, Malaysia, in 2002 and 2005, respectively. From 2002 to 2004, he was a Test Engineer working on new products’ test definition …
Marco Mercuri was born in Calabria, Italy in 1985. He received the Bachelor and Master degrees in electronic engineering from the Università della Calabria (UNICAL), Arcavacata di Rende, Italy, in 2006 and 2009, respectively. He is currently working towards the Ph.D degree within the TELEMIC …
