Private Sector - For Profit

Jake Bibik
Sr. Scientist
MelaTech, LLC
1 N Haven St
Ste B004
Baltimore, MD 21224
Email
Website
General Area(s) of Research or Interest: Bio-manufacturing, Biomaterials

Alec Brewer
CEO
Executive/Administrator
Ourobio
423 Lexington Ave
Charlottesville, VA 22902
Email
(631) 747-0255
Website
General Area(s) of Research or Interest: synbio, biomaterials, bioremediation, sustainable biomanufacturing, biodegradables, polymer synthesis/deconstruction

Justin Brodie-Kommit, PhD
Venture Capitalist
 Justin Brodie-Kommit Investing
3714 Hickory Ave
Baltimore, MD 21211
Email 
General Area(s) of Research or Interest: synbio, bioremidiation, cellular agriculture, materials, novel hosts

Toni Bucci
Founder, CEO
Executive/Administrator
Study Sable Fermentation, Inc.
2 Davis Dr
PO Box 13169
Research Triangle Park, NC  27709
Email
(908) 455-0888
Website
General Area(s) of Research or Interest: Biomanufacturing

Morgan Crafts
Program Manager, Life Sciences
Community Member
Peraton
12975 Worldgate Dr
Herndon, VA 20171
Email
Website
General Area(s) of Research or Interest: Biosurveillance

Eric Ezenwanne
Machine Learning Researcher
Community Member
Synthesis of Biology
3534 Lower Mill Ct
Ellicott City, MD 21043
Email
(443) 813-3655
Website
General Area(s) of Research or Interest: Ai/Machine Learning for systems & synthetic biology
Resources/Services Available: Machine Learning Research

Andrew Flannery
Scientist – Biotechnology
Executive/Administrator
Smiths Detection
701 E Pratt Street
Baltimore, MD 21202
Email
General Area(s) of Research or Interest: bio-sensors, bio-security, CBRNE

Charles Foster
Scientist
Staff Scientist
dsm-firmenich
6480 Dobbin Rd
Columbia, MD 21045
Email
(845) 490-4041
General Area(s) of Research or Interest: Sustainable feedstocks, computation, systems biology, bio-manufacturing
Resources/Services Available: large-scale fermentation, computational biology

Gene Godbold
Staff Scientist
Signature Science, LLC
1670 Discovery Drive, Suite 240
Charlottesville, VA 22911
Email
(512) 583-2492
Website
General Area(s) of Research or Interest: Biosecurity, Host-microbe interactions

Ben Hund
Vice President
Executive/Administrator
Arcadis
175 Regency Woods Place
Suite 400
Cary, NC 27518
Email
Phone Number (704) 907-0323
Website
General Area(s) of Research or Interest: Bio-Manufacturing
Resources/Services Available: Modular Design

Roger Ison
Founder
Executive/Administrator
Staff Scientist
Miximum Diagnostics
5918 Jordan Drive
Loveland, CO 80537
Email
(970) 290-2667
General Area(s) of Research or Interest: Molecular diagnostics

Masha Kononov
National Director Business Developement
Executive/Administrator
Ingenza Ltd.
7920 Strawberry Meadows St
Raleigh, NC 27613
Email
Phone Number (919) 637-9631
Website
General Area(s) of Research or Interest: bio process development, fermentation, cell line developments, biocatalysts
Resources/Services Available small scale fermentation, molecular design, cell line development (multiple hosts), enzyme engineering

Christina LaPosa
Program Manager
Executive/Administrator
Raytheon BBN
9861 Broken Land Parkway
Suite 400
Columbia, Province: MD 21046
Email
General Area(s) of Research or Interest: bio-manufacturing, bio-security, community engineering, synthetic biology applications of AI/ML

Bangya Ma
CEO
Executive/Administrator
ActiveCross
205 FOREST CT
Johns Creek, GA 30097
Email
Website
General Area(s) of Research or Interest: Develop microbial metabolites for crop protection and bio-manufacturing.

Andrew Magyar
Chief Technology Officer
Executive/Administrator
Capra Biosciences, Inc.
11100 Endeavor Ct
Suite 149
Manassas, VA  20109
Email
(617) 869-0843
Website
General Area(s) of Research or Interest: Bio-manufacturing of sustainable chemicals
Resources/Services Available: Capra has a fully equipped wet lab for synthetic biology and has extensive experience developing metabolic pathways in non-model organisms. In addition we have developed our own proprietary technology for chemical biosynthesis. Capra is interested in offering paid internships for college students in the Mid-Atlantic Syn Bio Network

Jason Nichols
Group Lead – Molecular Applications
Faculty/Lab Director
Study Syngenta Seeds
9 Davis Dr
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
Email
General Area(s) of Research or Interest: Plant (crop) engineering, high-throughput plant assays, genomics and phenomics for trait discovery and rapid selection, high-throughput genotyping and phenotyping, AI models for discovery and design.

Michael Norman
BDM
Commercial
Telesis Bio
140 Pearl Wyn Lane
Rising Sun, MD 21911
Email
(443) 945-4488
General Area(s) of Research or Interest: synthetic biology – design/build
Resources/Services Available: mRNA/Oligo/DNA – design & build

David Reed
CEO
Executive/Administrator
Mimetics, LLC
513 Lakeshore Lane
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
Email
(919) 219-0134
Website
General Area(s) of Research or Interest: Computational Biology – Time Series Gene Expression Data
Resources/Services Available: Computational Pipelines for Transcriptional Analysis

Juan Diego Ospina Ramirez
Biologist
Industry
Email
Calle 17 # 40b 185
Medellín, Antioquia 050021
(350) 797-4449
General Area(s) of Research or Interest: Bioremediation, bio manufacturing and bio security

Hanny Rivera
Associate Director for Business Development
Executive/Administrator
Ginkgo Bioworks
27 Drydock Avenue
8th Floor
Boston, MA 02210
Email
Website
General Area(s) of Research or Interest: Bioremediation, bio-mining, agriculture, carbon capture, biodiversity, bio-sensors.

Kobe Rogers
COO
Executive/Administrator
Ourobio
423 Lexington Avenue
Charlottesville, VA 22902
Email
(512) 636-9003
Website
General Area(s) of Research or Interest: bio-manufacturing, circular economy, bio-materials, bio-polymers, synthetic biology

Andrew Ryscavage
Senior Director
Executive/Administrator
Ginkgo Bioworks
27 Drydock Ave. Suite 7
Boston, MA 02210
Email
(202) 642-3884
Website
General Area(s) of Research or Interest: bio-sensors, intelligent medicine, quantum biology, bio-security, bio-manufacturing, carbon sequestration

Dan Siegal
Associate Director – Business Development (DC Office)
Staff
Ginkgo Bioworks
27 Drydock Avenue, 8th Floor
Boston, MA 02210
Email
General Area(s) of Research or Interest: energy, sustainability, environment

Sarit Schwartz
BD
Sarit Schwartz
6008 Stonehenge Pl
Rockville. MD 20852
Email
(917) 755-5016
General Area(s) of Research or Interest: Therapeutics and vaccines

Neil Sharma
VP Corporate Development
Position Executive/Administrator
LuminUltra Technologies, Inc.
805 Pinnacle Drive, Suite M
Linthicum Heights, MD 21090
Email
Phone Number (703) 568-1824
Website
General Area(s) of Research or Interest: Molecular Diagnostics, Biosensors, Bioremediation, Engineered Organisms, Biomanufacturing, Biosecurity
Resources/Services Available: small meeting facilities, fully equipped molecular diagnostics wet lab, custom diagnostics development, kit and reagent manufacturing

Britt Steed
Development Manager
Industry
TelesisBio
10431 Wateridge Circle
San Diego, CA 92121
Email
(919) 971-4180
Website
General Area(s) of Research or Interest: DNA/mRNA synthesis, vector building, NGS sample prep

Leila Strickland
CEO
Executive/Administrator
BIOMILQ
9 Laboratory Drive
STE 162
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-0000
Email
(919) 904-9264
Website
General Area(s) of Research or Interest: Biomanufacturing

Renee Wegrzyn
Vice President
Executive/Administrator
Renee Wegrzyn
5117 Wissioming Rd
Bethesda, MD 20816
Email
(202) 386-8622
Website
General Area(s) of Research or Interest: biosecurity, biomanufacturing, foundries
Resources/Services Available: Foundry Services, Biosecurity Services

Nathan Wilson
Community Member
BASF
2 TW Alexander Dr
Durham, NC 27713
Email
General Area(s) of Research or Interest: Plant Synthetic Biology

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