SynBioBeta Speaker
Craig Bartling
Battelle
Senior Biological Data Scientist
Dr. Bartling has a Ph. D. in Biochemistry, with 20+ years of research experience in the life sciences, including the past 10 years dedicated to biosecurity and threat assessment. Dr. Bartling’s background is in biochemistry, but his scientific expertise spans many areas (e.g., genomics, proteomics and protein characterization, and molecular biology), and he has familiarity with computer and data science, bioinformatics, and algorithm development. He is a recognized leader in biological data curation, with particular emphasis in data pertaining to biological threats and genetic engineering. Dr. Bartling was a PI for the IARPA FunGCAT Program and currently serves as the Technical Leader for Battelle’s ThreatSEQ and UltraSEQ Web Service for screening of synthetic nucleic acid sequences. He further represents his team in the IGSC, EBRC, and the Biosecurity Risk Consortium. In these roles, he provides technical guidance and leadership to a multi-discipline team, effectively facilitating productive communications between data scientists, software developers, and biological scientists.
SynBioBeta 2025 - Session Speaker
The Biological "Zero-Day" that Catalyzed a New Biosecurity Community
As synthetic biology and AI capabilities continue to expand and combine, biosecurity threats are becoming both more widespread and more difficult to mitigate. This panel will discuss these challenges in the context of a recent positive case study, in which multiple organizations collaborated to address an AI-based biological "zero day" threat using practices adapted from cybersecurity. We will further discuss how this collaboration has since matured into a larger effort to develop international standards for nucleic acid biosecurity screening, and close with remarks on emerging challenges in biosecurity.
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