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Bruce Armitage

Professor and Co-DirectorCarnegie Mellon University

Bruce Armitage’s current research interests include the use of PNA for sequence-specific recognition of DNA and RNA.

Gokila Dorai, PhD

Assistant ProfessorAugusta University

Dr. Dorai’s area of expertise is mobile/IoT forensics research and developing a targeted data extraction system for digital forensics.

Barbara Shinn-Cunningham

Dean, Mellon College of ScienceCarnegie Mellon University

Barbara Shinn-Cunningham's research explores such issues as how do we make sense of speech and other sounds.

Christopher C. Austin

Professor, Curator of HerpetologyLouisiana State University

Dr. Austin’s research focuses on evolutionary systematics, biogeography, and conservation of reptiles and amphibians.

Andreas Pfenning

Associate Professor, Ray and Stephanie Lane Computational Biology DepartmentCarnegie Mellon University

Andreas Pfenning has published a number of high-impact papers on genomic tools to study sequence differences.

Andrew Yeudall, PhD

Department Chair & ProfessorAugusta University

Mazen Al-Mansour

Assistant ProfessorUniversity of Florida

Dr. Mazen Al-Mansour is an expert in abdominal wall and hernia surgery, focusing on the use of minimally invasive (e.g. robotic) surgery.

Randy Blakely, Ph.D.

Executive Director, FAU Brain Institute & Professor, Biomedical ScienceFlorida Atlantic University

Randy Blakely is an expert in molecular neuroscience, focusing on how diseases and drugs impact the function of brain synapses and circuits.

Jason Pitts, Ph.D.

Director of the Biology of Global Health 4+1 Program | Associate ProfessorBaylor University

Investigates the sensory neuronal basis for behaviors in arthropod disease vectors such as mosquitoes carrying Dengue or Zika viruses.

Christopher J. Cormier

Associate ProfessorLoyola Marymount University

christopher.cormier@lmu.edu