Dominique is a faculty member in the Department of Biotechnology at MiraCosta College, San Diego, USA. She teaches courses on experimental design, upstream and downstream bioprocessing, and biostatistics. Dominique has mentored undergraduate students in research projects ranging from the ‘optimization of chemical cell disruption of Nannochloropsis oculata’ to the ‘development of inquiry-based projects for teaching design of experiments.’

Dominique’s Vision for the Lab of the Future:

“The future of lab work centers around accessibility. It’s an absolute must that laboratory software developers be committed to accessible design.” 

Fields of Interest:

Microbiology, food, pathogens

Jonas is completing his Bachelor’s in microbiology at the Aix-Marseille University in France. He is also Co-President of the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) local chapter since 2019.

Jonas' Vision for the Lab of the Future:

"The Lab of the Future will be environment-friendly and inclusive. Sharing between team member and with other teams will be easier. Data will be stored online and we could have access to them at anytime and anywhere."

Fields of Interest:

Synthetic biology, molecular biology, iGEM

Funsho's Vision for the Lab of the Future:

"An effortless ability to simultaneously observe and document transient experimental changes in real-time, transcending physical limitations, is my forecast for a futuristic laboratory."

Fields of Interest:

Pharmacology, cell culture, electrocardiogram (ECG), toxicology, physiology, microscopy, molecular biology

Javier is completing his PhD in microbiology at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health in the University of Barcelona. His research focuses on the discovery of new antimicrobials to help fight antimicrobial resistance.

Javier’s Vision for the Lab of the Future:

“I believe the lab of the future will be a space where science can be performed without hurdles thanks to technologies such as 5G, the Internet of Things and LabTwin. These technologies will speed up research and reduce the amount of time it takes to develop cutting edge projects.”

Fields of Interest:

Microbiology, food, pathogens

Maria-Isabel is completing her PhD in molecular biology at San Diego State University and the University of California, San Diego. Her research focuses on understanding how the viruses that infect bacteria, called phages for short, persist in, or escape from, their bacterial host. Her work combines molecular microbiology, genomics, biochemistry, and microbial ecology. Twice a year, she organizes the student innovation workshop for the Viral Information Institute.

Maria-Isabel’s Vision for the Lab of the Future:

“In the Lab of the Future, we will be able to access protocols for experiments in various fields of science from different institutions, and the details of their development and optimization will be readily available.”

Fields of Interest:

Microbiology, phages, pathogens, corals

Goutham is a Scientist at the Philipps University of Marburg. His research leverages state of the art technologies like viral vectors and complicated brain surgeries to uncover the molecular basis of alpha synucleinopathies in neurodegeneration and Parkinson's disease. Goutham is an early adopter of LabTwin. He found our platform after searching for smart, hands-free, digital applications to help him collect lab data and share with colleagues in real-time.

Goutham’s Vision for the Lab of the Future:

“The future of scientific laboratories should be smart and remotely controllable. I believe new age technologies like Artificial Intelligence and Voice Recognition will revolutionize the way scientific experiments are done, enhancing accuracy and reproducibility.”

Fields of Interest:

Virus, neuroscience, electrophysiology

Aline is founder and CSO of San Diego-based company VITAbolus. She is a recognized cell therapy expert with over 20 years of experience and recently sold her first stem cell technology. Now with VITAbolus, her goal is to democratize cell therapy by developing a proprietary, inexpensive, and simple to take stem cell pill.

Aline’s Vision for the Lab of the Future:

“The Lab of the Future is virtual. You can program, record and analyze experiments from anywhere. Colleagues can also follow from anywhere and comment or suggest modifications such as adding different controls etc. Many experiments will occur in simulated or surrogate settings rather than requiring living or animal test subjects.”

Fields of Interest:

Stem cells, diagnostics, cancer

Annie Voigt is a biochemist, behavioral biologist and neuroscientist. She is currently pursuing her PhD in neuroscience at Charité Berlin and the Humboldt University Berlin, Germany. Her work focuses on the formation of memories.

Fields of Interest:

Neuroscience, psychology

Katrine is currently completing a PhD in microbiology at Aarhus University and the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. Her work focuses on mobile genetic elements, such as plasmids and bacteriophages, and their importance in a variety of ecosystems. She also works to overcome biases in retrieval of mobilomes and viromes.

Katrine’s Vision for the Lab of the Future:

“In the future, wet lab work will hopefully be way more efficient with streamlined technology to help scientists take correct notes, set timers and check protocols while the work is happening and not afterwards.”

Fields of Interest:

Phages, probiotics, metagenomics, mobilome

After completing a Master thesis at Bayer HealthCare, Dennis Kwiatkowski is now a PhD student at the Freie Universität Berlin and a research associate in the Institute for Medical Physics and Biophysics at the Charité Universitätsmedizin in Berlin, Germany. Dennis studies G-protein coupled receptors, is a freelance lecturer and has even founded a microbrewery.

Denis' View fo the Lab of the Future:

"The lab of the future is personalized, interactive and frictionless and will connect great minds AND great technologies."

Ernesto Diaz-Flores is an Assistant Adjunct Professor at University of California, San Francisco where he uses a novel multiparametric flow cytometry platform to discover drug targets for high-risk subtypes of childhood leukemia. 

Ernesto's Vision for the Lab of the Future:

"The lab of the future will be more interdisciplinary, collaborative and standarized. Labs will include several digital components, share databases and integrate larger computational analyses."

Fields of Interest:

Leukemia, cancer, biochemistry, in-vivo and ex-vivo models, immunology

Sonali is a 4^th year PhD student at Central European Institute of Technology, Czech Republic. Her research mainly focuses on understanding the network of non-coding and coding RNAs in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia. She mainly works with cell lines and primary cells isolated from CLL patients.

Sonali's Vision for the Lab of the Future:

"The lab of the future is automated and Artificial intelligence-driven tools to record and set up experiments."