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Dominique Brossard

Dominique Brossard

Professor and Chair, Department of Life Sciences Communication

Expert on media, science and policy; science and social media; public understanding of science; risk communication; science and fake news

Robert Streiffer

Robert Streiffer

Professor, philosophy and bioethics

Expert on ethics and policy issues arising from agricultural and medical biotechnology

Frank Rath

Frank Rath

Program director, Engineering Professional Development

Expert in applying engineering concepts and tools in biotechnology, build-to-demand/make-to-order manufacturing strategies, risk and hazard analysis

Richard Amasino

Richard Amasino

Professor, biochemistry; member, Genome Center of Wisconsin

Expert in plant biochemistry, bioenergy, regulation of flowering, and genetically modified organisms (GMO).

Nader Behdad

Nader Behdad

McFarland-Bascom Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering; H. I. Romnes Faculty Fellow

Expert on antennas, phased array antennas, wireless devices, microwaves, microwave ablation, wireless communications, medical applications of electromagnetic fields, radio-direction finding and localization, cell phone geolocation.

Chris Brace

Chris Brace

Associate professor: Radiology, Biomedical Engineering

Expert on interventional oncology, interactions of energy with tissue, microwave engineering, thermal tumor ablation

Xudong Wang

Xudong Wang

Grainger Institute for Engineering Professor, Materials Science and Engineering; Grainger Institute for Engineering

Expert on nanomaterial piezoelectric nanostructures, biomechanical energy harvesting, wearable and implantable medical devices, self-powered electrostimulation and electronics

John Yin

John Yin

Professor, chemical & biological engineering; Cellular & Molecular Biology Program

Expert on systems biology, computational biology, quantitative virology and biochemical engineering

Andrew Bent

Andrew Bent

Professor, plant pathology; science adviser to dean of International Studies

Expert in plant molecular biology and biotechnology, especially in relation to agriculture

Jean-Michel Ané

Jean-Michel Ané

Professor, Bacteriology and plant and agroecosystem sciences

Expert on plant-microbe symbioses, nitrogen-fixation, mycorrhizae and legume genetics

Shawn Kaeppler

Shawn Kaeppler

Professor, plant and agroecosystem sciences

Expert in maize, corn, genetics, biofuel, epigenetics, plant breeding, plant biotechnology, transgenic plants, crops for underdeveloped countries, plant roots

Lloyd Smith

Lloyd Smith

Professor, chemistry

Developer of new technologies at the interface of biology and chemistry

Richard Burgess

Richard Burgess

Professor emeritus, oncology

Expert on protein purification, regulation of gene expression, history and development of biotechnology business in Madison

Jae-Hyuk Yu

Jae-Hyuk Yu

Professor, bacteriology, genetics, Food Research Institute

Expert on fungi, molds, mycotoxins, Detoxification of aflatoxin, patulin, and ochratoxin A. Natural antimicrobials using GRAS fungi, Human hair restoration using fermented products

Peter Lalley

Peter Lalley

Emeritus professor, physiology

Expert in brain and spinal cord control of respiration; autonomic nervous system; neurotransmitters and control of respiration, effects of ageing on respiratory nervous system.

David Schwartz

David Schwartz

Professor, chemistry, genetics

Expert in high-speed mapping and sequencing of DNA

Garret Suen

Garret Suen

Assistant professor, bacteriology

Expert in genomics, next-generation sequencing, bioinformatics, functional genomics, metagenomics, microbiology, rumen microbiology, systems biology, biofuels, microbial ecology, evolutionary ecology

Chris Hittinger

Chris Hittinger

Assistant professor, genetics

Expert on the evolution of yeast carbon metabolism, evolutionary genomics/genetics, molecular evolution, phylogenetics, population genetics, evolutionary systems biology

Edmund Elder

Edmund Elder

Director, Lachman Institute for Pharmaceutical Development / Director, Zeeh Pharmaceutical Experiment Station

Expert in drug delivery, formulation development, manufacturing and patents; FDA regulations, generic drugs, nanotechnology; pharmaceutical analysis

Thomas Jeffries

Thomas Jeffries

USDA professor, microbiology

Expert on bioconversion, biorefining, advanced cellulosic biofuels, unconventional yeasts, yeast physiology, metabolic engineering and bioprocess engineering