2023 Speaking Faculty
Mollie Roth, JDConference Chair
The Annual Translational Microbiome Conference
Heidi Hau, Ph.D.VP, Scientific Affairs & Partnerships
Clinical Microbiomics
Chrysi Sergaki, Ph.D.Principal Investigator, Microbiome Group Leader
Medicines & Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency, United Kingdom
Noa Rappaport, Ph.D.Senior Research Scientist, The Hood-Price Lab for Systems Biomedicine
Institute for Systems Biology
Nikole Kimes, Ph.D.Founder
Siolta Therapeutics
Jeremy Wilkinson, Ph.D.Senior Staff Specialist, Microbial Genetics
PacBio
Frank Xu, Ph.D.Head of Analysis & Strain R&D
DSM Nutritional Products
Cassandra IsleyChief Executive Officer
Microbiome Alliance for Disease Prevention
Roshonda Jones, Ph.D.Senior Bioinformatics Scientist
Nom Nom
Leigh Frame, Ph.D.Associate Director, Resiliency & Well-Being Center, Program Director, Integrative Medicine, School of Medicine & Health Sciences,
George Washington University
Cynthia L. Sears, MDBloomberg-Kimmel Professorship of Cancer Immunotherapy, Professor of Medicine
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Nithya KrishnakumarSenior Research Associate II
BCD Bio
Lan Hu, Ph.D.Director, Data Science & Bioinformatics
Viome
Chris Damman, MDClinical Associate Professor
University of Washington
Aaron Del DucaLead, Business Development
One Codex
Rajita Menon, Ph.D.Associate Director, Modeling & Statistics
Vedanta Biosciences
Ping Hu, Ph.D.R&D Director, Principal Scientist
Procter & Gamble
Shawn Green, Ph.D.Founder & CEO
MyFitStrip
Hasan Nur, Ph.D., MBAChief Executive Officer
EZ Biome
Christian Freguia, Ph.D.Senior VP Research
Rise Therapeutics
Laurel Lagenaur, Ph.D.Senior Scientist
Osel
Holly Ganz, Ph.D.Chief Science Officer, Co-Founder,
Animal Biome
Brice Le Francois, Ph.D.Senior R&D Manager - Technology,
DNA Genotek
Christine Taturu, Ph.D.Postdoctoral Researcher,
Oregon State University
Nezar Al-Hebshi, Ph.D.Co-director, Oral Microbiome Research Laboratory, Kornberg School of Dentistry,
Temple University
Kamlesh Oza, Ph.D.Head Technical Formulation & Application Services - North America,
Evonik
Kris Locken, M.Sc.Microbiome Specialist,
Zymo Research Corporation
