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Laurie Breyfogle, Ph.D., is a senior scientist at Proctor & Gamble in Cincinnati, OH. She earned her bachelor's degree in chemistry from Iowa State University in 1999, and doctorate in inorganic chemistry from the University of Minnesota in 2005, under the tutelage of advisers Marc Hillmyer and William Tolman.
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Mitchell "Mitch" Croatt is an assistant professor of chemistry at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro. He earned his bachelor's degree in chemistry from the University of Minnesota in 2002, and his doctorate in chemistry from Stanford University in 2008.
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Dave Giesen earned his bachelor's degree in chemistry with a computer science minor from the University of Minnesota-Duluth in 1992, and his doctorate in chemistry from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, in 1997, under the tutelage of Professor Christopher Cramer. He is a principle scientist for Schrödinger, Inc.
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Thomas L. Guggenheim, Ph.D.
Thomas L. Guggenheim, Ph.D., is a principal process chemist for SABIC Innovative Plastics. He earned his bachelor's degree in chemistry from St. Olaf College in 1978, and his doctorate under the tutelage of Paul Gassman from the University of Minnesota in 1983.
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Ed Huttlin, Ph.D., currently is a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard Medical School Department of Cell Biology Education. He obtained his bachelor's degree in chemistry from the University of Minnesota in 2003, and did his undergraduate research work under the tutelage of Associate Professor Michael Bowser.
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Simon K. Simon, Ph.D., is a supervisor for Coating Research at Corning, Inc., organic and biochemical technologies research group. He earned his doctorate at the University of Minnesota in 2003, under the tutelage of Professor George Barany.
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Daniel Weston is a research scientist—post-doctoral fellow—in the Department of Chemistry at Northwestern University. He earned his bachelor's degree in chemistry from the University of Minnesota in 2005 under the tutelage of Professor Wayne Gladfelter, and his doctorate from the Northwestern University in 2010.
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