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Sean Eddy is a Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology and of Applied Mathematics as Harvard University. His research interests include bioinformatics, computational biology anf biological sequence analysis. Previously, he was based at the Janelia Research Campus from 2006 to 2015 in Virginia. Eddy completed a Bachelor of Science in Biology at California institute of Technology in 1986, followed by his PhD in molecular biology at the University of Colorado in 1991. From 1992 to 1995, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK. From 1995 to 2007, he worked at Washington University School of Medicine and has been working for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute since 2000. In 2007, Dr. Eddy was the winner of the Benjamin Franklin Award in Bioinformatics for contributions to Open Access in the Life Sciences. In 2022, he was elected as a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology.

Michael Snyder is a genomicist and Stanford B. Ascherman Professor and is, as of 2009, the Chair of Genetics and Director of Genomics and Personalized Medicine at Stanford University. He is also the former Director of the Yale Center for Genomics and Proteomics. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2015. During his tenure as chair of the department at Stanford, the U.S. News and World Report ranked Stanford University first in Genetics, Genomics and Bioinformatics under his leadership. Dr. Snyder has co-founded companies in genetics, genomics, and personalized medicine, including Personalis, January AI, Protometrix, Afformix and Q Bio. Dr. Snyder has been a principal investigator of the ENCODE project since its founding in 2003 and co-director of the CIRM Center for Stem Cell Genomics and Director of the Center for Genome of Gene Regulation. Snyder pioneered the use of multi-omic longitudinal profiling to track health. He received his BA in chemistry and biology from University of Rochester. He went on to receive his PhD in biology from California Institute of Technology. Dr. Snyder completed his postdoctoral training at Stanford University School of Medicine. There he was involved in several projects, including establishment of successful cloning of gene using antibodies.