2023 BioEPIC Virtual Research Slam
Berkeley Lab’s Biosciences and Earth & Environmental Sciences Areas celebrate BioEPIC during Earth Month 2023! Lead investigators from each of the four Scientific Focus Areas (SFAs) that will be housed in the building will give a brief overview of their programs. Two scientists from each group will present their research in three-minute presentations for a general audience. Attendees will then vote for their favorite talks.
The 2023 Standings:
- BioEPIC Research Slam Champion – Mingfei Chen, postdoctoral researcher, ENIGMA Science Focus Area (SFA), “Journey to the Depths: A Subterranean Society of Microbial Biofilms”
- First Runner-up – Mohammad Ombadi, postdoctoral researcher, Watershed Function Science Focus Area, “Flowing Against the Odds: The Resilience of Watersheds in the Face of Drought”
- Honorable mention – Avery Roberts, graduate student researcher, m-CAFEs Science Focus Area, “A CRISPR Crossover: Harnessing Anti-Phage Defenses for Targeted Editing of Microbial Communities”
- Honorable mention – Bradley Biggs, postdoctoral researcher, ENIGMA Science Focus Area, “Friends or Foes Forged Under Fire? Using Synthetic Microbial Communities to Understand Field Interactions”
Co-hosts:
Cat Adams,
2022 BioEPIC Slam Champion
Lydia Rachbauer,
2022 BioEPIC SLAM Co-host
Representatives:
Belowground Biogeochemistry
Margaret Torn
Lead Scientist
William Riley
Lead Scientist
Lucy Bennett
Graduate Student Research Assistant, UC Berkeley
Ricardo Eloy Alves
Postdoctoral Researcher
ENIGMA
Paul Adams
Lead Scientist
Adam Arkin
Lead Scientist
Bradley Biggs
Postdoctoral Researcher
Mingfei Chen
Postdoctoral Researcher
m-CAFEs
Trent Northen
Lead Scientist
Adam Deutschbauer
Lead Scientist
Jose Manuel Villalobos Escobedo
Postdoctoral Researcher, UC Berkeley
Avery Roberts
Graduate Research Assistant, North Carolina State University
Watershed Function
Eoin Brodie
Lead Scientist
Ken Williams
Lead Scientist
Mohammed Ombadi
Postdoctoral Researcher
Helen Weierbach
Data Science Research Associate