BiGSAT 2026 Organization Committee

Chairs

Maxwell Douglas

Co-chair

BIOF Genomics Oncology Epidemiology OSS Causal Inference

Yi Jou (Ruby) Liao

Co-chair

GSAT Genomics Prostate Cancer Liquid Biopsy VPC BC Cancer

Communications

Erick Navarro

Co-lead

BIOF Epigenetics Multiomics Software Development

Neera Patadia

Co-lead

BIOF Transcriptomics Gene Regulation Meta Analysis MSL

Emily Zhang

BIOF AMPs Proteomics Machine Learning AMR

Berke Uçar

BIOF AMPs Proteomics Machine Learning AMR

Esme Padgett

GSAT Pangenomics Crop Breeding Plant Biology

Event Workforce

Catherine Wang

Co-lead

GSAT Genomics Prostate Cancer Liquid Biopsy VPC BC Cancer

Julia Price

Co-lead

GSAT Genomics

Julia Desbiens

GSAT Molecular Cloning Bacterial Metabolism Biomaterials

Operations

Juliana Sobral

Co-lead

GSAT Genomics Gynecologic Cancer BC Cancer

Asfar Lathif

Co-lead

GSAT Genomics Synthetic Biology CRISPR Gene Regulation

Ding Ma

BIOF Genomics Sarcoma BC Cancer

Jeffrey Tang

BIOF Transcriptomics Gene Regulation Immunology ILD Proteases

Promotions

JJ Hum

Co-lead

GSAT Gene Regulation MPRA

David Lin

Co-lead

BIOF Genomics Osteosarcoma Telomere ONT BC Cancer

Syd Wong

GSAT Genomics Bioengineering Process Analytics Immunology MSL

Raam Sivakumar

BIOF Multimodal Medical Imaging Deep Learning Machine Learning

Finances

Josh Dyce

Lead

BIOF Multimodal Medical Imaging Computer Vision Cystic Fibrosis