David R. Walt is Robinson Professor of Chemistry at Tufts University and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor.  Dr. Walt is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.  Dr. Walt serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of several journals including Analytical Chemistry, Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, Sensor Letters, and the Indian Journal of Biotechnology. He served as Executive Editor of Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology and was a founding member of the Editorial Advisory Board for the Journal of Combinatorial Chemistry.   Dr. Walt is the Scientific Founder and Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board at Quanterix, and a Director of Illumina. He has received numerous national and international awards and honors recognizing his work including a National Science Foundation Special Creativity Award, The Biosensors and Bioelectronics Award, and the Samuel R. Scholes Award in Glass Science.  Dr. Walt has received the Tufts Outstanding Faculty Award twice in addition to the Distinguished Research Award.  He has published over 200 papers, holds over 45 patents, and has given hundreds of invited lectures and scientific presentations.  Dr. Walt received his Ph.D. in Chemical Biology from SUNY at Stony Brook and a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Michigan.

Dr. Corn is a Professor in the Departments of Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering at the University of California, Irvine. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the co-founder of two biotechnology companies: GWC Technologies and GenTel BioSciences. Professor Corn is also the recipient of the 2007 SSP Pittsburgh Spectroscopy Award and the 2007 ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry Award in Spectrochemical Analysis. Dr. Corn is a leader in the development and application of surface-sensitive spectroscopic techniques such as surface plasmon resonance imaging, optical second harmonic generation, and polarization modulation Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. His primary research interests include the study of biopolymer adsorption onto surfaces and the chemical modification of surfaces for the creation of ultrathin films and adsorption-based biosensors. After obtaining a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, Professor Corn came to the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he was an Analytical Chemistry Professor in the Department of Chemistry from 1985 to 2004. In July of 2004, Dr. Corn moved his laboratory to the University of California, Irvine.

Dr. Kricka is Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Director of the General Chemistry Laboratory at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.   Dr. Kricka’s awards and honors include the Ullman Award, the AACC Award for Outstanding Contributions to Clinical Chemistry in a Selected Area of Research, Rank Prize for Opto-Electronics, Queens Award for Technological Achievement, Prince of Wales Award for Innovation and Production, British Technology Group Academic Enterprise Competition Award, and the Society of Analytical Chemistry Silver Medal (Royal Society of Chemistry).  He was President of the American Association for Clinical Chemistry and a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Christ's College, Cambridge, England.  Dr. Kricka’s research interests include analytical applications of bioluminescence/chemiluminescence, DNA probe assays, analytical microchips for genetic testing, and analytical interferences caused by heterophile antibodies.  Dr. Kricka holds over 30 U.S. patents and is the author/co-author of over 450 articles, abstracts, book chapters, papers and 20 books.  He is Editor-in-chief of Luminescence, a member of the Editorial Board of Clinical Chemistry, Lab-on-a-chip, and Analytical Biochemistry, and past Editor of the Journal of Immunoassay.  Dr. Kricka received his D. Phil and B.A. in Chemistry from the University of York, UK.

Dr. Ramsey holds the Minnie N. Goldby Distinguished Professor of Chemistry Chair at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  In addition to his appointment in the Department of Chemistry, he is also a member of the faculty in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, the Carolina Center for Genome Sciences in the UNC-CH School of Medicine and the Institute of Advanced Materials, Nanoscience and Technology.  He is a recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Award, the Frederick Capillary Electrophoresis Award, the A. J. P. Martin Gold Medal for Separation Science, the Marcel J.E. Golay Award in Capillary Chromatography, the Jacob Heskel Gabbay Award in Biotechnology and Medicine, the American Chemical Society Division of Analytical Chemistry Award in Chemical Instrumentation, the Pittsburgh Analytical Chemistry Award, the American Chemical Society Award in Chromatography and two R&D 100 Awards. Dr. Ramsey is the scientific founder of Caliper Life Sciences. His present research interests include microfabricated chemical instrumentation, micro- and nanofluidics, single molecule DNA sequencing, single cell assays and highly miniaturized mass spectrometry.  He has published over 200 papers and presented over 440 invited, plenary, or named lectures.  In addition, he has over 100 issued or pending patents in these areas. Dr. Ramsey holds or has held Editorial positions on a number of journals.  He received his Ph.D. in chemistry from Indiana University and a B.S. in chemistry from Bowling Green State University.

Dr. Xie is Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology.  He is the recipient of several awards, including the Berthold Leibinger Zukunftspreis Laser Technology award, the Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics, the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award, the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Prize in the Physical Sciences and the Coblentz Award.  He has been elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is a fellow of both the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences and Biophysical Society. His current research interests include single molecule spectroscopy and enzymology, quantification of gene expression in living cells and characterization of molecular interactions and underlying mechanisms of macromolecular machines.  Prior to Harvard, Dr. Xie was Chief Scientist at the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.  He has published more than 125 articles and has a number of issued patents.  Dr. Xie received his Ph.D. in Chemistry at the University of California, San Diego and B.S in Chemistry at Peking University in Beijing, China.