Professor Chris Willis University of Bristol, UK
Chris Willis is currently Head of the Organic and Biological Chemistry Section at the University of Bristol. Her collaborative research programmes focus on the use of both synthetic biology and organic synthesis to elucidate and manipulate biosynthetic pathways to deliver novel bioactive compounds and biocatalysts, leading to >170 publications. She was awarded the RSC Flintoff Medal in 2008, was a member of the Bristol Polyketides Group awarded the 2013 Rita and John Cornforth Award and recently was recognised by an IUPAC 2019 Distinguished Women in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering Award.
Wenjun Zhang University of California, USA
Wenjun Zhang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at University of California Berkeley and the Charles R. Wilke Endowed Chair in Chemical Engineering. She did her doctoral training with Yi Tang at UCLA and her postdoctoral training with Christopher T. Walsh at Harvard Medical School before joining UC Berkeley in 2011. She is the author of 70+ scientific publications and received awards such as Pew Scholar (2012), NIH Director’s New Innovator (2015), Sloan Research Fellow (2016), American Cancer Society Research Scholar (2017), Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2019), etc. Zhang Lab is broadly interested in natural product discovery, biosynthesis, engineering, and biological studies.
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