BioRender: Creating Professional Science Figures with Ease!
Please join us as we speak with Amy about her experience with AI, including administrative tasks, content creation, brainstorming, system integration, and much more!
Join us for this engaging one hour session to see how easy it is to create professional scientific figures with BioRender! The first 45 minutes of our time together will be divided into three sections, showcasing: 1) an overview of BioRender software; 2) results from the 2024-2025 program piloting BioRender at Wake Forest University; and 3) a panel highlighting internal use cases. The last 15 minutes of the session will be held for audience Q&A.
Section 1 (15 minutes): BioRender Overview
Alex Lowes, BioRender Customer Success Manager, will provide provide a brief introduction to the utility and features of BioRender software, including:
How you can get started
Differences between free accounts, student accounts, premium accounts
Templates, thesis templates, posters
Graphing
Powerpoint Integration
Importing from Adobe and ChemDraw
Section 2 (10 Minutes): WFU BioRender Pilot Program Results
Kristen Beavers will share Pilot Program Results, including feedback from the pilot user base and the status of a sitewide license request for Wake Forest Reynolda Campus.
Section 3 (20 minutes): Panel Presentations
Representatives from the 20-member pilot user base – including Wake Forest faculty, staff, and students – will take turns showcasing some of the beautiful scientific illustrations they created with access to BioRender Software during the 2024-2025 academic year.
Alexandra Maloney (Lowes)
Customer Success Manager | BioRender
Alex is a Customer Success Manager at BioRender who has been working with the Wake Forest BioRender Pilot Program. She completed her Master of Education at the University of Ottawa, focusing on adult education, curriculum development, and effective assessment practices. Alex applies this knowledge, along with classroom experience, to help develop customer enablement programs, design scalable processes to drive efficiencies, and partner with internal stakeholders to ensure the successful launch of new products with the end user in mind.
Linda Liu
4th year PhD student in Biomedical Engineering | Wake Forest University
Linda Liu’s research is in the evaluation of cardiovascular endovascular therapeutic devices using preclinical models. Her research advisor is Dr. Saami Yazdani. Before moving to Winston-Salem, she lived in Dallas, TX, and graduated from Rice University in Houston, TX, in 2021 with a BS in Bioengineering.
Joshua Currie
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology | Wake Forest University
Dr. Joshua D. Currie is an Assistant Professor of Biology at Wake Forest University, specializing in animal development and regenerative processes. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Regenerative Therapies in Dresden, Germany. Through his research and mentorship, Dr. Currie continues to advance our understanding of regenerative biology and its potential applications in medicine.
Kristen M. Beavers
Research Professor, Health and Exercise Science and Professor, Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine Wake Forest University and Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Kristen M. Beavers, PhD, MPH, RD, is a Associate Professor in the Department of Health and Exercise Science at Wake Forest University where she teaches Nutrition in Health and Disease (HES 351) and Epidemiology (HES 360). Dr. Beavers received her BS from Cornell University in Human Biology, Health and Society; MPH from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Nutrition; and PhD from Baylor University in Exercise, Nutrition, and Preventive Health. She is a Registered Dietitian and certified by the American College of Sports Medicine as a personal trainer. Dr. Beavers’ academic and professional interests lie in the study of nutrition and exercise as interdisciplinary sciences, specifically as they relate to prevention and etiology of chronic disease and disability. Her research focuses on the identification of optimal weight loss therapies for older adults living with obesity.
