Speakers:

• Ellen Kuhl, Walter B Reinhold Professor in the School of Engineering, Robert Bosch Chair of Mechanical Engineering, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and, by courtesy, of Bioengineering and Soichi Wakatsuki, Professor of Photon Science and of Structural Biology – Discovering Models for Tau Pathology in Alzheimer's Disease
• Daniel Palanker, Professor of Ophthalmology and, by courtesy, of Electrical Engineering and Director of the Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory and Stephen Baccus, Professor of Neurobiology – Prosthetic Vision in Patients Blinded by Retinal Degeneration
• Scott Delp, Director of the Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance at Stanford, James H. Clark Professor in the School of Engineering, Professor of Bioengineering, of Mechanical Engineering and, by courtesy, of Orthopaedic Surgery, Mark Schnitzer, Professor of Biology, of Applied Physics and of Neurosurgery (Adult Neurosurgery), and Gabriel Sanchez, Delp lab alum, now CoFounder and CEO of Enspectra Health – From the Clark Basement to FDA-Cleared Imaging Modality: An Adventure of Nonlinear Optics and Friendship

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

THE STANFORD BIO-X FELLOWS SYMPOSIUM CELEBRATES OUR STANFORD BIO-X FELLOWS AND THEIR RESEARCH ACCOMPLISHMENTS

A Stanford Bio-X Fellow will give a presentation on their research and accomplishments, followed by introductions and brief research talks from the new 2021 Stanford Bio-X Fellows.