Kate S Carroll is an Associate Professor with Tenure in the Department of Chemistry at The Scripps Research Institute in Jupiter, Florida. She received her BA degree in Biochemistry from Mills College in 1996 and PhD in Biochemistry from Stanford University in 2003. Her postdoctoral work was completed at the University of California, Berkeley, where she was a Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Chancer Fund Fellow with Prof. Carolyn Bertozzi. She was an assistant professor at the University of Michigan until 2010, when she joined the Chemistry faculty at Scripps.

Education: B.S., University of Oregon, 2004. Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2008 (Robert G. Bergman and Kenneth N. Raymond). Postdoctoral: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008-11 (Stephen J. Lippard).

Vamsi Mootha is an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and a Professor of Systems Biology and of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. His laboratory is based in the Department of Molecular Biology and Center for Genome Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Mootha leads a research team dedicated to mitochondrial biology.

Dean P. Jones, Ph.D. is Professor of Medicine (Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine) and Biochemistry (Adjunct) at Emory and Director of the Clinical Biomarkers Laboratory. He received a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Illinois, Urbana, in 1971 and a Ph.D in Biochemistry from Oregon Health Sciences Univ., Portland, in 1976. He was a National Sciences Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Nutritional Biochemistry at Cornell University, Ithaca, and a Visiting Scientist in Molecular Toxicology at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm prior to joining Emory in 1979.

Education: Harvard University (Postdoc), University of Texas (Ph.D.), University of Florida (M.S.), Korea University (B.S.)