Speakers

  • Matthew Breen

    Professor of genomics, Department of Molecular Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University

    Trained at the University of Liverpool, Matthew Breen launched a career in molecular cytogenetics in the UK and Australia, where he helped develop techniques to analyze the genomes of horses and humans. After extending his comparative genomic studies to dogs, he relocated his lab to NCSU’s College of Veterinary Medicine as part of the school’s genomics initiative in 2002. He now co-directs the clinical studies core within the NCSU Center for Comparative Medicine and Translational Research and serves on the board of the Canine Comparative Oncology and Genomics Consortium.

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  • Alan S. Brown

    Freelance writer and part-time associate editor, Mechanical Engineering Magazine

    Alan has found a way to balance the freedom of freelancing with a regular paycheck.

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  • Leslie Brunetta

    National Writers Union; co-author, Spider Silk: Evolution and 400 Million Years of Spinning, Waiting, Snagging, and Mating

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  • Merry Bruns

    ScienceSites Communications, Web Writing Training

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  • Siri Carpenter

    Freelance science journalist and co-founder of The Open Notebook

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  • Helen Chickering

    Freelance reporter/producer for NBC News and guest lecturer and advisory board member at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Medical and Science Journalism Program

    Helen Chickering is a veteran broadcast journalist with a passion for science literacy and communication. Chickering works as a freelance reporter/producer for NBC News and is a guest lecturer and advisory board member at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Medical and Science Journalism Program. She recently sharpened her science communicating skills at Stony Brook University's 2011 Communicating Science Summer Institute.

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  • Kevin Clauson

    Director, Center for Consumer Health Informatics Research, Associate Professor, College of Pharmacy-Department of Pharmacy Practice, Nova Southeastern University

    Kevin A. Clauson (@kevinclauson) entered his first science fair in the early 1980s with a program called Future Teacher written on a ZX81 computer. It came in last place as the consensus of the judges was that there would never be a place for computers in education. Undeterred, Clauson maintained his enthusiasm for technology and it eventually grew into a desire to see its potential realized in healthcare.

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  • Clinton Colmenares

    Senior director of communications, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine

    Clinton Colmenares is senior director of communications for the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine. His primary responsibility is to create and lead a strategy for communicating news from the medical school to the media, the general public and various constituent groups. A former medical reporter for newspapers in San Antonio, Montgomery, Ala., and Nashville, Colmenares has also held media relations positions at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, the University of Maine and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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  • David Corcoran

    Editor, Science Times

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  • Joseph DeSimone

    Chancellor's Eminent Professor of chemistry (UNC-CH) and William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of chemical engineering (NCSU), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University

    Joe DeSimone is a prolific and creative inventor, entrepreneur and scientific collaborator. Among his inventions are: an environmentally friendly manufacturing process that relies on supercritical carbon dioxide for the creation of fluoropolymers and high-performance plastics; a bioabsorbable, drug-eluting stent; and a roll-to-roll particle-fabrication technology that borrows photolithographic techniques from semiconductor manufacturing to deliver high-performance, cost-effective vaccines and medicines.

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