Member Spotlight: Derek Applewhite

EEA Member Spotlight with Alexandre Bourget, StreamingFast’s Co-founder and CTO – Ethereum Enterprise Alliance

Please introduce your company and yourself briefly.StreamingFast is a radically different infrastructure product for Ethereum and for empowering developers with better queries and streaming semantics than blockchain nodes. The founding team is made up of serial entrepreneurs, with deep expertise in big data, cybersecurity, dev ops and blockchain. Combined, we have built and sold 6 companies, with the last one being sold to Intel. We have a passi…

Member Spotlight: Derek Applewhite

Institution:Reed College How long have you worked in the cell biology field? Since 2002 What is your field of research? I am a pan-cytoskeletonist (actin, microtubules, molecular motors) using Drosophila and Drosophila cells.  What initially got you interested in becoming a scientist and then later specifically your field of research? Microscopy! I fell in love with the beautiful images of the cytoskeleton in graduate school and I have been hook…