
Stanford Bio-X Interdisciplinary Initiatives Seed Grants Program Symposium and Poster Session
Friday, SEPTEMBER 1, 2023
1:30Pm - 5:30pm
Clark Center Auditorium and Courtyard
View the SYMPOSIUM poster Abstract Brochure Poster List
Congratulations to our poster award winners!

Hundreds of researchers enjoying the Stanford Bio-X Seed Grants Poster
Session in the Clark Center Courtyard on September 1, 2023.
Stanford Bio-X Interdisciplinary Initiatives Seed Grants Program Symposium
1:30PM - Introduction
Carla Shatz, Catherine Holman Johnson Director of Stanford Bio-X
1:40PM - Deep learning-driven discovery of dendritic spine biology
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
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2:20PM - Ultrasound-controlled in vivo gene editing via photoswitchable CRISPR-Cas9
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
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3:00PM - From transcription factor binding to function: understanding and engineering stem cell pluripotency network by repurposing 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
3:45PM - Scientific Poster Session
Poster Award Winners:
Thank you so much to everyone who joined us at the Stanford Bio-X Interdisciplinary Initiatives Seed Grants Program Symposium and Poster Session! It was wonderful to see so many members of the Stanford Bio-X community sharing their exciting research, and we hope you enjoyed the event and the opportunity to make new connections.
Out of the 229 posters submitted and presented, the following award winners were selected by our poster judges, based on judging criteria including scientific and innovative impact, interdisciplinarity, visual presentation, and engagement with the audience (listed in alphabetical order by last name):
Presenter’s Name, Presenter’s Department (Laboratory, Lab Department)
• Grace Adebogun, Human Biology (Yeatman Lab, Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics and Graduate School of Education) | • Christopher Long, Materials Science & Engineering (Heilshorn Lab, Materials Science & Engineering) |
• Brandon Bui, Human Biology (Petritsch Lab, Neurosurgery) | • Xiangling Meng, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences (Pasca Lab, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences) |
• Daniel Cardozo Pinto, Neurosciences (Malenka Lab, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences) | • Matteo Molè, Obstetrics & Gynecology (Molè Lab, Obstetrics & Gynecology) |
• Ray Chang, Bioengineering (Prakash Lab, Bioengineering) | • Archini Nemi Nayak, Physics (Schwartzman Lab, SLAC) |
• Seth Cordts, Mechanical Engineering (Tang Lab, Mechanical Engineering) | • Aleena Patel, Developmental Biology (Boettiger Lab, Developmental Biology) |
• Katie Dong, Biology (Luo Lab, Biology) | • Ricardo Rios, Bioengineering (Heilshorn Lab, Materials Science & Engineering) |
• Benjamin Doughty, Genetics & Julia Schaepe, Bioengineering (Greenleaf Lab, Genetics) | • Nicholas Rommelfanger, Applied Physics (Hong Lab, Materials Science & Engineering) |
• Julieta Gomez-Frittelli, Chemical Engineering (Kaltschmidt Lab, Neurosurgery) | • Yusuf Roohani, Biomedical Data Science (Leskovec Lab, Computer Science) |
• Ananya Goyal, Bioengineering (Kogan Lab, Radiology) | • Amin Sajjadian, Bioengineering (Huang Lab, Bioengineering and Microbiology & Immunology) |
• Alyssa Guo, Chemistry (Kuo Lab, Hematology) | • Olivia Saouaf, Materials Science & Engineering (Appel Lab, Materials Science & Engineering) |
• Cyrus Hajian, Biology (O’Connell Lab, Biology) | • Theresia Schnurr, Cardiovascular Medicine (Knowles Lab, Cardiovascular Medicine) |
• Feng He, Molecular & Cellular Physiology (Skiniotis Lab, Molecular & Cellular Physiology and Structural Biology) | • Ishaan Singh, Mathematics (Fuller Lab, Developmental Biology) |
• Ian Ho, Bioengineering (Prakash Lab, Bioengineering) | • Ariel Stiber, Materials Science & Engineering (Dionne Lab, Materials Science & Engineering) |
• Yuan Jia, Chemistry (Waymouth Lab, Chemistry) | • Supreeti Tallapragada, Obstetrics & Gynecology (Dorigo Lab, Obstetrics & Gynecology) |
• Bryan Khoo, Management Science & Engineering (Shea Lab, Orthopaedic Surgery) | • George Tilton-Low, Bioengineering (Wyss-Coray Lab, Neurology & Neurological Sciences) |
• David Kilian, Materials Science & Engineering (Heilshorn Lab, Materials Science & Engineering) | • Emily Trimm, Biophysics (Red-Horse Lab, Biology) |
• Jason Kronenfeld, Chemistry (DeSimone Lab, Radiology and Chemical Engineering) | • Pranav Vyas, Bioengineering (Prakash Lab, Bioengineering) |
• Chloe Laguna Logan, Bioengineering (Sattely Lab, Chemical Engineering) | • June Winters, Biology (Red-Horse Lab, Biology) |
You can see their full titles in the poster list!
