Awarded in 2025
Home Department: Genetics
Faculty Advisors: Alex Gao (Biochemistry and Microbiology & Immunology) and Daniel Herschlag (Biochemistry)
The focus of Dr. Silvana Konermann's lab is to develop and apply technologies for high-throughput transcriptional perturbations to understand the cellular and molecular pathways driving human genetic risk in neurodegenerative disease
Home Department: Biochemistry
Faculty Advisor: Rajat Rohatgi
Talk Title: Regulation of the Hedgehog pathway by oxysterols
Event: 2012 Hedgehog Signaling Meeting - Sigrid's work was later published in Nature Chemical Biology.
Home Department: Genetics
Faculty Advisor: Ami Bhatt
Talk Title: Enterococci Small RNA 84 Regulates Cell Surface Proteins and Adherence to Mucin in E. faecalis
Event: ASM Microbe 2025
Dr. Siegfried Glenzer, who is the recipient of the recent E. O. Lawrence award, is Professor and High-Energy-Density division director at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. He joined SLAC as a distinguished scientist in 2013 to build a new discovery-class program in exploring matter in extreme conditions using high-power lasers and the world-class Linac Coherent Light Source x-ray beam.
Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Xiaolin Zheng
Talk Title: Facile Thermal and Optical Ignition of Silicon Nanoparticles and Micron Particles Facile Thermal and Optical Ignition of Silicon Nanoparticles and Micron Particles
Event: 2017 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting & Exhibit
