BioSystems Salon
24 September 2002
Sponsor: Polaris Venture Partners ~
http://www.polarisventures.com/
Noubar Afeyan Founder
& CEO Flagship Biological Eng
& Systems Genomics
Naomi Aoki Business
Reporter Boston Globe Technology Business
Steve Arnold Managing
Partner Polaris Technology
Venture Capital
Maria Battaglia Marketing
Partner Polaris Venture
Capital
Angela Belcher Professor MatSci /
BE Biomolecular
Mat’ls & In/Organic Interfaces
Joost Bonsen G
Stud’nt & Organizer MIT
Sloan Research
Lab Strategy
Bob Brown Provost ChemE Fluid
Mechanics & Transport Processes
Bob Buderi Editor Technology
Review Science &
Technology
Bill Bulkeley Staff
Reporter Wall
St Journal Technology
Business
Briana Burton Graduate
Student Biology Microbial
Mechanisms
Kevin Davies Editor-in-Chief BioIT World Biotechnology &
Informatics
Desh Deshpande Entrepreneur Sycamore Communications
& Innovation
John Dodge Executive
Editor BioIT
World Biotechnology
& Informatics
Jessica Duda Associate Polaris Life Sciences Venture Capital
Drew Endy Fellow ChemE
/ BE Systems
& Synthetic Biology
Felice Frankel Research
Scientist MIT Envisioning
Science
Neil Gershenfeld Professor CBA /
Media Physics
& Media, Atoms & Bits
Saul Griffith Graduate
Student MAS / CBA Programmable
Materials
Linda Griffith Professor ChemE / BE Cells & Tissue
Engineering
Kim Hamad-Schifferli Professor MechE
/ BE RF Biology
Krisztina Holly Executive Director Despande Center Catalyzing Technological
Innovation
Trey Ideker Fellow Whitehead Biological Signal
& Pathway Modeling
Joe Jacobson Professor CBA /
Media Molecular
Machines
Manolis Kamvysselis Graduate Student Whitehead Computation &
Bioinformatics
Tom Knight Research
Scientist AI Lab /
EECS Cellular
Robotics & Microbial Engineering
Doug Lauffenburger Professor ChemE / BE Molecular Cell
Bioengineering
Andrew Lawler Staff
Writer/Boston Science Science &
Technology
Philina Lee Graduate Student Biology Bacterial
DNA-binding Proteins
Mark Lundstrom CEO
& Co-Founder BioScale BioChips,
Bio-assays
Hong Ma Graduate
Student MechE Nanogate
Biology
Tom Magnanti Dean Engineering Operations Research
& Optimization
Scott Manalis Professor CBA / BE Nanoscale
Sensing & Silicon Biology
Beth Marcus Founder Marcus
Enterprises BioMechanics
Paul Matsudaira Professor Whitehead
/ BE Actin Springs
& BioMEMS
Terry McGuire Managing
Partner Polaris Technology
Venture Capital
Bob Metcalfe Partner
& Host Polaris Technology
Venture Capital
Fiona Murray Professor MIT Sloan Life Science &
Healthcare Ventures
Geeta Narlikar Professor UCSF Multi-part
Biomolecular Machines
Amir Nashat Associate Polaris Life Sciences
Venture Capital
Christina Ortiz Professor MatSci / BE Biopolymer Mechanics
Kollol Pal Graduate
Student MIT Sloan Organic Chemistry,
Drug Discovery
Paula Ragan Corp.
Dev. Director Genome
Therapeutics Systems Biotechnology
Monica Rixman Graduate
Student MatSci Protein
Intermolecular Interactions
David Sabatini Fellow Whitehead Cell Growth &
Division Regulation
Ram Sasisekharan Professor Bio / BE Functional
Glycomics
Bob Silbey Dean Science Theoretical
& Physical Chemistry
Alex Slocum Professor MechE Precision
Engineering & Nanogates
Peter So Professor MechE / BE BioInstrumentation
& Optical Diagnostics
Peter Spotts Correspondent C. Science Monitor Science & Technology
Alok Srivastava Business
Development BioScale Direct Sensing
Biomolecular Detection
David Stipp Senior
Writer Fortune Science &
Technology
Gerry Sussman Professor AI Lab /
EECS Amorphous
Computing
Sylvia Westphal Journalist New
Scientist Science
& Technology
Christoph Westphal Partner Polaris Technology
Venture Capital
James White Graduate
Student MechE Nanogate
Bioprobes
Sanith Wijesinghe Graduate
Student AeroAstro Complex Biological
Transport Modeling
Richard Young Professor Whitehead MicroArrays,
Computational Genomics
Rachael Zimmerman Staff Reporter Wall St Journal Science & Technology