Thomas A. McKeon
Board Member
International Society for Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology
USA
Biography
Dr Tom McKeon is a research chemist with the USDA Agricultural Research Service at the Western Regional Research Center in Albany.He received his PhD in biochemistry from the University of California, Berkeley.He is co-organizer of the 8th ISBAB Symposium to be held October 28-31, 2012, in the Sonoma Valley Wine Country of California.
Research Interest
His research area is the biochemistry of castor oil biosynthesis and involved in aspects of agronomy, toxin detection and chemurgy of castor to promote its reintroduction as a US crop.
Biography
Dr. Meghana Joshi is the Program Director for Biocon-KGI certificate programs based at Keck Graduate Institute, California, USA. Dr. Joshi received her PhD in Biological Sciences from the University of Illinois at Chicago, followed by post-doctoral experience at M.D.Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas and Columbia University, New York. Thereafter, she completed the KGI PostDoctoral Professional Masters Degree, a program training PhD's to work in the Biotech industry. She teaches a course in Pharmaceutical Drug Development and works as a consultant to Life Science companies to help them conduct market research and to help in licensing products and forming collaborations, particularly in the area of Biosimilars.
Research Interest
Licensing Products and Biosimilars

Xiaohua He
Research Molecualr Biologist
USDA, Agricultural Research Service
USA
Biography
Dr. Xiaohua He is a Research Molecular Biologist at the Western Regional Research Center, USDA-ARS. She completed her Ph.D. from UC Riverside, and had Post-doc experiences at Purdue and Cornell Universities. Dr. He received the 2015 USDA Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer, Far West Region, Outstanding Technology Development Award for her contribution to the development of novel monoclonal antibodies against a broad range of Shiga toxins. She has served as academic editor and editorial board member of several leading journals and is an author/inventor of over 70 publications and patents, with 14 technologies licensed to industry.
Research Interest
Food Safety,Molecular Tools,Toxin Synthesis.