About MBDF

Kate Adamala
Associate Professor of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development at the University of Minnesota.

Yasmine Belkaid
President, Institut Pasteur, Paris.

Patrick Yizhi Cai
Chair Professor of Synthetic Genomics at the University of Manchester, UK.

Vaughn Cooper
Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. ASM President-Elect.

John Glass
Professor, Leader of the Synthetic Biology Group, and Director of the La Jolla Campus at the J. Craig Venter Institute.

Wilmot James
Professor of the Practice of Health Services, Policy, and Practice at the Brown University School of Public Health. Former Shadow Minister of Health in South Africa.

Richard Lenski
John A. Hannah Distinguished Professor of Microbial Ecology at Michigan State University.

Chenli Liu
​Pengcheng Distinguished Professor. President, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT), Chinese Academy of Sciences.

David Relman
Thomas C. and Joan M. Merigan Professor in Medicine, Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University.

Jack Szostak
University Professor at the University of Chicago. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009.

Weiwen Zhang
Baiyang Chair Professor at Tianjin University, Director of the Tianjin University Center for Biosafety Research and Strategy.