Dr. Gerdes is an assistant professor of technical communication and rhetoric at Virginia Tech. She studies institutional communication about and during public health emergencies of international concern (PHEICs). Her forthcoming book, Infectious Urgency: The Making of an International Public Health Emergency moves from spillover to the circulation of behavior messages to examine concepts of rhetoric, … Read more
Colin E. Bishop PhD holds the position of Professor in the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine. His research interests include Gene Editing, Reproductive Genetics and Stem Cell Biology. His current research involves the construction of a human “body on a chip” using Organ Tissue Equivalents (Organoids) for fast predictive toxicology studies and disease modeling.
Dr. Bento is an assistant professor of infectious disease ecology in the Department of Public & Ecosystem Health at Cornell University. She leads a team of transdisciplinary researchers to shape, develop and coordinate integrative research into how data-driven modeling can end current and prevent future pandemics. At the Bento Lab the approach is to develop … Read more
Dr. Anthony Atala the W. Boyce Professor and Chair of the Department of Urology at the Wake Forest School of Medicine and the G. Link Professor and Director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine. His work focuses on bioprinting and growing human cells, tissues and organs for transplantation and therapy and for developing … Read more