Program Leadership

FYIM 2026 Conference Organizers and Leadership

  • Eric Deeds
    Integrative Biology and Physiology, UCLA
  • Timothy Downing
    Biomedical Engineering, UCI
  • Elizabeth Read
    Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, UCI
  • Julien Berro
    Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Yale

Contact

Program: Timothy Downing (tldownin at uci dot edu),
Elizabeth Read (elread at uci dot edu),

Logistics: Emi Embler (eembler at uci dot edu)

FYIM Steering Committee

Belinda Akpa University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Mentewab Ayalew Spelman College

Yoshie Hanzawa California State University Northridge

Leonard Harris University of Arkansas

Carlos Lopez Altos Labs

Ashok Prasad Colorado State University

David Stone University of Illinois Chicago

Zeba Wunderlich Boston University