High Dimensional Biology: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow- What We Need to Know

Bob Balderas has 40 years of leadership experience in both academia and the industry sector. As a Distinguished BD Fellow and the VP of Biological Sciences at BD, he is focused on accelerating market adoption of new tools and technologies into the Life Science Community. Bob has made numerous contributions within BD Biosciences, most recently being a biology and technology champion of the BD FACSymphony™ Platform.

Maggie Nakamoto joined BD in 2018 and currently manages the Genomics Applications group within single-cell multiomics. This team contributes to technology sensing as well as technology and application development for the BD Rhapsody platform. She received her PhD from Stanford University in 2017, studying RNA biology.

Ian Taylor is the Director of Product Innovation at BD Life Sciences – Informatics, in Ashland Oregon. Ian has worked with FlowJo since 2010 as a bioinformatics specialist and single-cell researcher. He is passionate about single-cell data analysis and has spearheaded many projects in software engineering for machine learning, he and his team have applied these and other tools to a wide variety of collaborator datasets resulting in the advancement of single cell science in many areas. Ian persistently strives to bring the best in informatics innovations to researchers around the world.