The Biographica laboratory

The people behind Biographica

Plant scientists, computational biologists and engineers bringing deep computational, experimental and commercial expertise under one roof.

Founding team

Dominic Hall, PhD

Dominic Hall, PhD

Founder & CEO

Cecily Price

Cecily Price

Co-founder

Science team

Felix Homma, PhD

Felix Homma, PhD

Principal Bioinformatician

Daai Zhang, PhD

Daai Zhang, PhD

Senior Experimental Scientist

Naama Gil, PhD

Naama Gil, PhD

Plant Scientist

Victoria Au Yeung, PhD

Victoria Au Yeung, PhD

Computational Biologist

Vladimir Nekrasov, PhD

Vladimir Nekrasov, PhD

Principal Experimental Scientist

Machine learning

Paride Antinucci, PhD

Paride Antinucci, PhD

Lead ML Engineer

Sacha Raffaud

Sacha Raffaud

Software Engineer

Emanuele Sicurella, PhD

Emanuele Sicurella, PhD

ML Engineer

Linfeng Wang, PhD

Linfeng Wang, PhD

ML Engineer

Data engineering

Dennis Schwartz

Dennis Schwartz

Lead Data Engineer

Nikita Bolotin

Nikita Bolotin

Senior Software Engineer

Gabrielle Klimovitsky

Gabrielle Klimovitsky

Data Engineer

Product, BD and operations

Leonardo Schmidt Boz

Leonardo Schmidt Boz

Product Strategy and Partnerships Lead

Barnaby Dingemans

Barnaby Dingemans

Product Manager

Daria Poma Kostik

Daria Poma Kostik

Operations Manager

Advisors

Jeff Rosichan

Jeff Rosichan

Director, Crops of the Future Collaborative · Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research

Precision plant breeding, genetics and molecular biology.

Juan Martinez

Juan Martinez

Co-CEO & Managing Director · SenseUP Biosciences

Venture Lead EMEA at Bayer Crop Science; eight years at Monsanto.

Laura Westby

Laura Westby

General Counsel · Talam Biotech

15 years at Syngenta, latterly Associate General Counsel, Crop Protection.

Monika Paule

Monika Paule, PhD

CEO & co-founder · Caszyme

CRISPR molecular tools; previously Johnson & Johnson and Vilnius University.

Investors

How we work

We are product-first. Foundational models enable better biological discovery, but the endpoint is not the model. It is the plant or biological product we can build with it.

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