2025
Symposium Advising Committee
(59 members)
2025
Symposium Advising Committee
(59 members)
Dr. Gary Brudvig (Benjamin Silliman Professor of Chemistry, Yale University, Connecticut)
Dr. Robert Blankenship (Lucille P. Markey Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri)
Dr. Himadri Pakrasi (George William and Irene Koechig Freiberg Professor, Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri)
Dr. Jushua Yuan (Lucy & Stanley Lopata Professor and Chair, Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri)
Dr. Dunwei Wang (Vanderslice Professor of Chemistry, Boston College, Massachusetts)
Dr. Barry Bruce (Charles P. Postelle Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry & Cellular and Molecular Biology, The University of Tennessee Knoxville, Tennessee)
Dr. Randall Clark (Sandra K. and David L. Gilliland Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, Auburn University, Alabama)
Dr. Cajetan Akujuobi (Professor of Computer Engineering, Prairie View A&M University, Texas)
Dr. Suleyman Allakhverdiev (Professor of Plant Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia)
Dr. Jianping Yu (Researcher, National Renewable Energy Lab, Colorado)
Dr. Katherine Chou (Researcher, National Renewable Energy Lab, Colorado)
Dr. Mike Seibert (Researcher, National Renewable Energy Lab, Colorado)
Dr. Michael Guarnieri (Researcher, National Renewable Energy Lab, Colorado)
Dr. Shanlin Pan (Professor of Chemistry, The University of Alabama, Alabama)
Dr. Wu Xu (Professor of Biochemistry and Chair, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Louisiana)
Dr. Fei Yan ( Professor of Chemistry, North Carolina Central University, North Carolina)
Dr. Wei Zhan (Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Auburn University, Alabama)
Dr. Fur-Chi Chen (Research Professor of Food Science, Tennessee State University, Tennessee)
Dr. Haiying Huang, (Associate Professor of Geosystems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia)
Dr. Colin Gates (Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Loyola University Chicago, Illinois)
Dr. Maureen Kendrick Murphy (Professor of Chemistry, Huntingdon College, Alabama)
Dr. Douglas Strout (Former Professor of Chemistry, Alabama State University; Instructor, Montgomery Academy, Alabama)
Dr. James Blakemore (Associate Professor of Chemistry, University of Kansas, Kansas)
Dr. Qingfang He (Professor of Biology and Interim Chair, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Arkansas)
Dr. Mian Jiang (Associate Professor of Chemistry, University of Houston Downtown, Texas)
Dr. Gary Hastings (Professor of Biophysics, Georgia State University, Georgia)
Dr. Hubert Seigneur (Scientist, University of Central Florida, Florida)
Dr. Xiaofei Wang (Professor of Biology, Tennessee State University, Tennessee)
Dr. Lin Gong (Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Prairie View A&M University, Texas)
Dr. Thomas Sakmar (Richard M. and Isabel P. Furlaud Professor, Rockefeller University, New York)
Dr. Jian-Ren Shen (Professor of Biology, Okayama University, Japan)
Dr. Govindjee (Professor Emeritus of Biophysics, Biochemistry, and Plant Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois)
Dr. Charles Dismukes (Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, Rutgers Univesity of New Jersey, New Jersey)
Dr. Fuzhong Zhang (Francis F. Ahmann Professor, Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri)
Dr. Barry Lavine (Regents Professor of Chemistry, Oklahoma State University, Oklahoma)
Dr. Peter He (George E. & Dorothy Stafford Uthlaut Endowed Professor of Chemical Engineering, Auburn University, Alabama)
Dr. Xin Wang (Associate Professor, University of Florida, Florida)
Dr. Yixin Chen (Professor of Computer Science & Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri)
Dr. Yingjie Tang (Professor of Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri)
Dr. Elizabeth Gardner (Professor of Forensic Science, University of Alabama Birmingham, Alabama)
Dr. Elsa Yan (Professor of Chemistry, Yale University, Connecticut)
Dr. Zongli Tang (Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology, Auburn University Montgomery, Alabama)
Dr. Bruce McCord (Professor of Chemistry, Florida International University, Florida)
Dr. Tong Ye (Associate Professor, Clemson University, South Carolina)
Dr. Joong-Wook Park, (Associate Professor of Biology, Troy University, Alabama)
Dr. Haijun Liu (Associate Professor of Biology, St. Louis University. Missouri)
Dr. Liqiu Zheng (Associate Professor of Physics, Albany State University, Georgia)
Dr. Bo Wang (Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minnesota)
Dr. Kamil Woronowicz (Assistant Professor of Chemistry, SUNY Rockland County College, New York)
Dr. Xing Liu (Professor of Computer Science, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Canada)
Dr. Yi Wang (Professor of Mathematics and Chair, Auburn University Montgomery, Alabama)
Dr. Yiping Zhao (Professor of Physics, University of Georgia, Georgia)
Dr. Hua-Jun Shawn Fan (Professor of Chemistry & Chair, Alcorn State University, Mississippi)
Dr. K. Joseph Ho (Director of Chemical Education, University of New Mexico, New Mexico)
Dr. Ruanbao Zhou, (Professor of Molecular Microbiology, South Dakota State University, South Dakota)
Dr. Kai Shen (Professor of Chemistry and Chair, Savannah State University, Georgia)
Dr. Chaoxuan Zhang (Researcher, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Tennessee)
Dr. Qingqi Chen, Founder and CEO, MedKoo Biosciences, Inc., North Carolina
Dr. Feimeng Zhou (Professor of Chemistry, California State University, California)
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