Speakers:

• Carla Shatz, Sapp Family Provostial Professor, Catherine Holman Johnson Director of Stanford Bio-X, and Professor of Biology and of Neurobiology, Daniel Rubin, Professor of Biomedical Data Science, Radiology, Medicine, and (by courtesy) of Ophthalmology, Maja Djurisic, Senior Research Scientist, Shatz Lab, and Xuerong Xiao, Rubin Lab alum, now at NVIDIA – Deep learning-driven discovery of dendritic spine biology
• Guosong Hong, Assistant Professor of Materials Science & Engineering, Michael Lin, Associate Professor of Neurobiology, of Bioengineering, and (by courtesy) of Chemical & Systems Biology,  and Wendy Gu, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering – Ultrasound-controlled in vivo gene editing via photoswitchable CRISPR-Cas9
• Jan Skotheim, Professor of Biology and (by courtesy) of Chemical & Systems Biology, Marius Wernig, Professor of Pathology and (by courtesy) of Chemical & Systems Biology, Stanley Qi, Associate Professor of Bioengineering, and Ali Shariati, Skotheim lab alum, now an Assistant Professor of Biomolecular Engineering at the University of California Santa Cruz – From transcription factor binding to function: understanding and engineering stem cell pluripotency network by repurposing CRISPR/Cas9

Speakers:

• Polly Fordyce, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering and of Genetics; and Chris Garcia, Younger Family Professor and Professor of Structural Biology – Mapping of the force-dependent landscape of T cell receptor agonists for immunotherapy
• William Tarpeh, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, by courtesy, of Civil and Environmental Engineering; and James Swartz, James H. Clark Professor in the School of Engineering and Professor of Chemical Engineering and of Bioengineering – Designing Nitrogen-Selective Materials for Water Treatment using Ks-Amt5 Bacterial Membrane Transporters
• Kim Butts Pauly, Professor of Radiology and, by courtesy, of Electrical Engineering and of Bioengineering; and Xiaoke Chen, Associate Professor of Biology – Treating addiction by non-invasive ultrasound neuromodulation

Speakers:

• Ron Dror (Computer Science), Stephan Eismann (PhD candidate in Applied Physics in Ron Dror’s lab), and Raphael Townshend (PhD candidate in Computer Science in Ron Dror’s lab) – Geometric Deep Learning of RNA Structure
• Shirit Einav (Medicine – Infectious Diseases and Microbiology & Immunology) and Purvesh Khatri (Medicine – Biomedical Informatics) – Better Understanding and Predicting Viral Sepsis
• Nidhi Bhutani (Orthopaedic Surgery) and Ovijit Chaudhuri (Mechanical Engineering) – Live Free or Inflame – Understanding the Interplay of Cell Volume Regulation, ECM Viscoelasticity and the Response to Inflammation

Speakers:

• Anson Lee, Assistant Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery; and Zhenan Bao, K. K. Lee Professor in the School of Engineering, Senior Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy and Professor, by courtesy, of Materials Science & Engineering and of Chemistry – Elastic polymeric electronics for high throughput and high density mapping of cardiac arrhythmogenic activity
• Ellen Kuhl, Professor of Mechanical Engineering; and Kinya Seo, Instructor of Cardiovascular Medicine in Euan Ashley’s lab – A Novel Approach Towards Drug Screening Using Single Cell Experiments, Isolated Heart Preparations, Multiscale Modeling, and Machine Learning
• Hunter Fraser, Associate Professor of Biology; Sergiu Pasca, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences; and Rachel Agoglia, PhD candidate in Genetics – Exploring the evolution of human brain development with cerebral cortical spheroids
• Zev Bryant, Associate Professor of Bioengineering and, by courtesy, of Structural Biology; and Lin Ning, postdoctoral research fellow in Neurobiology in Michael Lin’s lab – Engineered Molecular Transport for Directing Neural Development
• Dennis Wall, Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Systems Medicine) and Biomedical Data Science; and Michael Snyder, Stanford W. Ascherman, MD, FACS, Professor in Genetics – From taxa to pathways: unraveling the metabolic impact of the gut microbiome in Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Lucy O’Brien, Assistant Professor of Molecular & Cellular Physiology; and Anna Kim, postdoctoral research fellow in Molecular & Cellular Physiology in Lucy O’Brien’s lab – A gut feeling: Mechano- and chemo-sensory inputs controlling adaptive intestinal growth

Speakers:

• Karl Deisseroth, D. H. Chen Professor, Professor of Bioengineering and of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University – Nature's gift: how the discovery of structural principles in a microbial protein helped illuminate the pathophysiology of psychiatry
• Fan Yang, Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and of Bioengineering, Stanford University – Engineering 3D cell niche for enhancing stem cell-based tissue regeneration or disease modeling: a biomaterials-mediated approach
• Richard Scheller, Chief Science Officer & Head of Therapeutics, 23andMe – Big data meets drug target discovery
• Judith Frydman, Donald Kennedy Chair in the School of Humanities & Sciences and Professor of Genetics, Stanford University – Healing the proteome: proteostasis mechanisms in health and disease
• Brian Kobilka, Helene Irwin Fagan Chair in Cardiology and Professor, by courtesy, of Chemical and Systems Biology, Stanford University – Structural insights into G protein coupled receptor signaling

JOIN US FOR OUR INTERDISCIPLINARY INITIATIVES SEED GRANTS PROGRAM SYMPOSIUM!

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A symposium in the Clark Center Seminar Room S360 of presentations by Seed Grant awardees describing their research will be followed by a reception.  All are welcome.

JOIN US FOR OUR INTERDISCIPLINARY INITIATIVES SEED GRANTS PROGRAM SYMPOSIUM!

A symposium in the Clark Center Seminar Room S360 of presentations by Seed Grant awardees describing their research will be followed by a reception.  All are welcome.

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A symposium in the Clark Auditorium of presentations by Seed Grant awardees describing their research will be followed by a reception in Nexus Café.  All are welcome.

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A symposium in the Clark Auditorium of presentations by Seed Grant awardees describing their research will be followed by a reception in the Clark Center Courtyard.  All are welcome.