Barbara E Engelhardt is a Senior Investigator at Gladstone Institutes and Professor at Stanford University in the Department of Biomedical Data Science. She received her B.S. (Symbolic Systems) and M.S. (Computer Science) from Stanford University and her PhD from UC Berkeley (EECS) advised my Prof. Michael I Jordan. She was a postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Matthew Stephens at the University of Chicago. She was an Assistant Professor at Duke University from 2011-2014, and an Assistant, Associate, and then Full Professor at Princeton University in Computer Science from 2014-2022. She has worked at Jet Propulsion Labs, Google Research, 23andMe, and Genomics plc. In her career, she received an NSF GRFP, the Google Anita Borg Scholarship, the SMBE Walter M. Fitch Prize (2004), a Sloan Faculty Fellowship, an NSF CAREER, and the ISCB Overton Prize (2021).
Dr. Guillaume Bourque is a Professor in the Department of Human Genetics at McGill University and a Canada Research Chair in Computational Genomics and Medicine He leads the Canadian Center for Computational Genomics at McGill and is also a Principal Investigator at the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Biology (ASHBi) of Kyoto University. His research interests are in comparative and functional genomics with a special emphasis on applications of next-generation sequencing technologies and transposable elements.
Tuuli Lappalainen, PhD, is a Professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, the Director of the Genomics Platform and the National Genomics Infrastructure of SciLifeLab, and a Senior Associate Faculty Member at the New York Genome Center. Her research uses both population genomics and CRISPR tools to characterize molecular and cellular effects of genetic variation and their contribution to human traits and diseases. Dr. Lappalainen has contributed to many international research consortia in human genetics and genomics and has received multiple prizes for her contributions to the field.