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."

Liliana has finished her PhD in the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology. Developing environmental solutions for the society is her passion, so now she is working on protein and metabolic engineering in order to obtain potential enzymes for industry and sustainable projects. As PhD representative, she organised scientific and cultural events as the Plant and People 2019 Conference and Mental Health initiatives in Potsdam.

Liliana’s Vision for the Lab of the Future:

“The lab of the future has to be a place were the scientific knowledge and data storage must be easy to share and to use, in order to have more efficiency during the lab work and publication of the results.” 

Sagar is doing his Ph.D. in Microbiology from the Central Department of Microbiology, Tribhuvan University, Nepal in collaboration with Helmholtz-Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS), Saarbrucken, Germany. His research focuses on isolating novel Actinomycetes and Myxobacteria from the soil and identifying biologically active secondary metabolites that will find future applications in the new drug discovery process. Apart from the lab, he likes blogging and digital marketing.

Sagar’s Vision for the Lab of the Future:

“For me, the lab of the future is the use of robotics and artificial intelligence. People will be able to access any lab from anywhere in the world using modern innovative technologies.” 

Fields of Interest:

Actinomycetes, Myxobacteria, Natural Products

Kiara is a Postdoc currently working at Uniklinikum Jena, Germany. Her research focuses on elucidating Cortex development in mammals. Specifically the interaction of the protein Sema3C with interneurons during their migration towards the developing cortex. She is passionate about how man-made chemicals affect brain development and she is the lead organizer of TEDxFSUJena, spreading relevant ideas in this platform since 2016.

Kaira’s Vision for the Lab of the Future:

“The lab of the future embrace groups across the globe working closely and sharing in real-time experimental tracking, and reports in a fast and digital way.” 

Maryna is a young scientist. After two years in R&D project management and lab automation, now she works with organoids culture and implements high throughput technologies such as single-cell analysis. Her work there is at the interface between the innovative directions of biomedicine and cutting edge data science approaches.

Maryna’s Vision for the Lab of the Future:

“For me, the lab of the future is digital and high-throughput. Nowadays more and more advanced technologies are coming to the lab and we should be ready for this! Labtwin is one of the best solutions for scientists, which can enhance their performance in running challenging research and make a routine much more pleasant.” 

Steffen has a PhD gained at Technical University Hamburg with focus on Microbiology. Due to 8 years QC labs at Bayer, my interest is also in the field of lab digitalization. Today he is teaching microbiology at Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin in the B.Sc. and M.Sc. courses of Biotechnology and is Dean of Dept. V „Life Sciences and Technology". He is also active in game based teaching learning in the lab besides some other research activities in the diagnostic field.

Steffen’s Vision for the Lab of the Future:

“Some of us were born yesterday and cooperatively train young people of today for tomorrow. For me, this challenge is responsible & sustainable teaching.” 

Prathibha Muralidhara completed her doctoral degree in Molecular Biology from University of Würzburg, Graduate School of Life Sciences (GSLS) in April 2020. She started to work as Postdoctoral Researcher at Interfaculty Institute of Cell Biology (IFIZ), University of Tübingen. Her research focuses on how metabolism and cell cycle regulation are linked in eukaryotes. Her research combines metabolomics, biochemistry and live-cell imaging.

Prathibha’s Vision for the Lab of the Future:

“For me lab of the future should involve greater transparency and scientific communication of different protocols developed by different fields and research groups across the globe. It is now time for strengthening interdisciplinary research.” 

Bhavik Patel is a Senior Scientist working with U.S.pharmacopeia, Research & Development Department located in India. His research is basically for improvement of public health. It covers development of affordable medicines. His speciality is on the liposomal injection formulation for the treatment of cancer, blood infection and post surgery pain management.

Bhavik’s Vision for the Lab of the Future:

“I believe future labs will be fully systematic & robotic for innovation. AI will simplify the research, and it's scalability would be huge.” 

Ofer is a 2nd-year postdoctoral fellow at UCSF Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences. He engages in several scientific questions, all revolve around elucidating the non-coding genome role in development and disease, for which he utilizes many types of omics analysis methods.

Ofer’s Vision for the Lab of the Future:

“Free from the chain of notebooks and printouts, the lab of the future is seamless, workgroup-oriented, cloud-based, and above all accessible from your mobile device.” 

Gloria is a 4th year immunology graduate biomedical researcher from Center for Regenerative Therapies TU Dresden. Her research focuses on developing protocols for single immune cell analysis using fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) and droplet based single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq). In addition, she uses R programming language to analyze scRNA-seq gene expression and immune receptor data, and organizes TEDxDresden idea conferences based on the popular TED format.

Gloria’s Vision for the Lab of the Future:

“For me, the lab of the future is fast, efficient, and sustainable. I imagine an environment where I can record and manipulate multiple parameters during work in cell culture and flow cytometry sorting, with no need for the additional paperwork.” 

Pedro is a physicist and neuroscientist pursuing a masters at the Charite in Berlin. He integrates synthetic biology, artificial intelligence and nanotechnology tools to dissect cell signaling networks that sculpt neurogenesis in the mammalian brain. He combines patient-derived iPS cells, in vivo models, different CRISPR systems and optogenetics to interrogate the pathogenesis of neuropsychiatric disorders. Furthermore, he is a frequent contributor to different magazines writing articles on transatlantic relations, Latin American politics, and gender studies.

Pedro’s Vision for the Lab of the Future:

“The lab of the future will focus on better human-centric designs. Scientific experiments could be performed anywhere by taking advantage of better in silicon models linked to automated facilities thus providing more freedom to scientists to harness their creativity, increase productivity, and global connections without being limited by physical borders and the demand for being on site.” 

Laura Bohorquez, PhD, is medical advisor and LATAM regional manager at BluSense Diangostics, a medtech Danish company. Laura supervises the execution of clinical trials in LATAM. She performed her PhD in Cell Biology at the University of Amsterdam, studying the dividing bacterial cell as a promising target for novel antibiotics, with analytical techniques in molecular biology, microbiology, genetics, transcriptomics and fluorescence microscopy. Laura is volunteer in fundraising at ‘Techo’, a civil rights non-profit organization in Colombia.

Laura’s Vision for the Lab of the Future:

“For me the lab of the future is hands-free, allows reporting data in real-time, enables the scientists to perform experiments with speed and efficiency.”