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June 25

Tracey McLaughlin (Medicine - Endocrinology, Gerontology, & Metabolism)

Obesity and Insulin Resistance: Focus on the Fat Cell

E.J. Chichilnisky (Neurosurgery and Ophthalmology)

Toward a High-Fidelity Artificial Retina

Ehsan Adeli (Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences - Public Mental Health & Population Sciences)

A Journey in AI and Neuroscience

July 2

Carolyn Bertozzi (Chemistry)

Glycoscience at the Blood-Brain-Barrier 

Fan Yang (Orthopaedic Surgery and Bioengineering)

Tiny Gels, Big Impact: Regenerating Tissues & Modeling Disease 

Paul J. Wang (Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine)

How to Have a Career in Academics and Innovation 

July 9

Anthony Wagner (Psychology)

Pathways of Age-Related Memory Variability [SUNet login required]

Rogelio Hernández-López (Bioengineering and Genetics)

Engineering T Cells to Fight Challenging Cancers [SUNet login required]

Dean Felsher (Medicine - Oncology and Pathology)

Oncogene Addiction: Making Cancers Go in Reverse [SUNet login required]

July 16

Sergiu Paşca (Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences - Sleep Medicine)

How the Human Brain Builds Itself 

Christin Kuo (Pediatrics - Pulmonary Medicine)

Investigating Neuroendocrine Cell Diversity and Function in the Human Lung 

Alex Gao (Biochemistry)

Discovering New Molecular Functions in Microbial Antiviral Defense and Beyond [SUNet login required]

July 23

Ellen Kuhl (Mechanical Engineering)

AI for Food: Accelerating and Democratizing Discovery and Innovation 

Vayu Hill-Maini (Bioengineering)

From the Kitchen to the Lab... And Back 

Tammy Sirich (Medicine - Nephrology)

Searching for Solutes Retained in Kidney Failure [SUNet login required]

July 30

Stephen Quake (Bioengineering and Applied Physics)

The Tabula Sapiens and Beyond… [SUNet login required]

Jennifer Cochran (Bioengineering)

Protein Engineering to Develop Next-Generation Cancer Therapeutics

Eric Gross (Anesthesiology, Perioperative & Pain Medicine)

What Alcohol Flushing Can Teach Us About Anesthesia and Analgesia 

August 6

Jenn Brophy (Bioengineering)

Manipulating Soil Microbes to Improve Plant Drought Tolerance

Kerwyn Casey Huang (Bioengineering and Microbiology & Immunology)

Understanding the Human Intestinal Environment [SUNet login required]

Michael Howitt (Pathology and Microbiology & Immunology)

Acquiring a Taste for Parasites: Chemosensory Tuft Cells in Shaping Intestinal Immunity

August 13

Jesse Engreitz (Genetics)

Mapping the Regulatory Wiring of the Genome to Link Disease Variants to Functions [SUNet login required]

Scott Delp (Bioengineering and Mechanical Engineering)

Optimizing Human Performance [SUNet login required]

Charles Gawad (Pediatrics - Hematology & Oncology)

Exploring Potential Roles for Viral Nucleic Acids in the Pathogenesis of Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia [SUNet login required]

August 20

Frank Longo (Adult Neurology)

Translational Research in Neurodegenerative Disease – From Mechanisms in a Dish to the Clinic [SUNet login required]

Christina Curtis (Medicine - Oncology, Genetics, and Biomedical Data Science)

Towards Predictive Oncology and Digital Twins of Malignancy [SUNet login required]

Cory Shain (Linguistics)

An Integrated Network for Language in the Brain [SUNet login required]

August 27

Alison Marsden (Pediatrics - Cardiology and Bioengineering)

Model-Guided Design of Pediatric Heart Surgeries [SUNet login required]

Gheorghe Chistol (Chemical & Systems Biology)

How Do Eukaryotes Initiate Replication? Single-Molecule Adventures in Chromatin Biology [SUNet login required]

David Myung (Ophthalmology)

Biomaterials to Heal the Wounded Cornea [SUNet login required]