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