Dr. Asaf Salamov is a researcher at the E O Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He received his B.Sc. from Baku State University, and his Ph.D. from the Institute of Cytology and Genetics (Novosibirsk, Russia), was a postdoc at the Baylor College of Medicine (USA). He is a staff scientist at the Joint Genome Institute (LBNL) where he is developing computational methods for the analysis of genomic data. His research interests include fungal phylogeny and genetics.
Dr. Blake A. Simmons is a Division Director of Biological Systems & Engineering at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is a strong information and engineering technology professional with a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) focused in Chemical Engineering and Biochemical Engineering from Tulane University. His research interests include Renewable Energy, Bioenergy, Synthetic Biology, Sustainability, Bioeconomy, Biomanufacturing, Bioeconomy, Bioeconomy, Carbon Capture and Utilization, Chemical Engineering, Thin Films, Bioinformatics, Analytical Skills, Materials Science, Microfluidics and Protein Chemistry.
Dr. Matthias Brock
is an Assistant Professor at the University of Nottingham in the Fungal Biology
and Genetics Group. In 1998, he received his Diploma in Microbiology at the
Philipps University Marburg, Germany, and then he got a PhD here. His teaching
includes all aspects of fungi. This includes the production of toxins as well
as antibiotics or psychedelic drugs, fungal infections of plants, humans,
insects, and nematodes, biotechnological exploitation as producers of enzymes
and small molecules, and immune interactions of fungal pathogens. He focuses on
filamentous fungi and yeasts that are of medical or industrial importance.
