Emily Hatas

Emily is a plant biologist with deep expertise in plant and animal genomics and advanced breeding technologies, and a career spent bridging cutting-edge biotechnology with real-world impact. She has held leadership roles in business development, commercial strategy, and operations at early-stage and mission-driven organizations in the ag and biotech sectors.

As Vice President of Revive & Restore, the leading organization dedicated to conservation biotechnology, Emily helps shape the vision for how genomic tools can enhance biodiversity and restore ecosystems amid rapid environmental change. Revive & Restore is building a Genetic Rescue Toolkit to help threatened species adapt and recover, with projects spanning iconic wildlife restoration and marine ecosystem health. Emily oversees strategic planning, partnerships, and operations, as part of a dynamic team united by the belief that biotechnology can be a powerful force for conservation.

She brings to this panel a perspective that spans agricultural science and conservation biology, and a deep interest in how the synthetic biology tools being developed for crop resilience can serve the broader living world. Emily holds a BS in Plant Biology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an MBA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.