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Speakers:
Brian Frezza (MCS 2005), Co-founder of Emerald Cloud Lab and Emerald Therapeutics
Brian M. Frezza serves as the lead architect of the Emerald Cloud Lab (ECL), a web-based platform for remotely conducting and managing data surrounding wet lab experiments. Brian completed his Ph.D. in chemical biology at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), working on DNA nanotechnology under committee mentorship of Feynman award-winning chemists M. Reza Ghadiri and Nadrian Seeman. Brian is a Hollerith and Wolfram Innovator award-winner who has received over 400 combined citations for published articles in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS) and Chemical Physics. He has also served as a peer reviewer for both JACS and Langmuir, and guest-lectured at Carnegie Mellon University, TSRI and Stanford University.
Bruce Armitage, Professor and Head of Chemistry, and Co-Director, Center for Nucleic Acids Science and Technology at Carnegie Mellon University
Bruce Armitage earned his B.S. in chemistry from the University of Rochester (1988) and his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Arizona (1993). After postdoctoral appointments at the University of Illinois, Georgia Tech and the University of Copenhagen, he joined the faculty of Carnegie Mellon University in 1997. In 2007, he co-founded the Center for Nucleic Acids Science and Technology, and in 2022 became the head of the Chemistry Department. His research involves the development of PNA for regulating gene expression and fluorescent molecules for use in cellular imaging applications. He also teaches courses in organic chemistry and the chemistry of addiction.