Welcome
10:00 AM Introduction with Polly Fordyce (Stanford University), Jason Sello (University of California, San Francisco), and Aaron Streets (University of California, Berkeley)
Session I
Session I: Understanding function at the molecular scale
10:05 AM Lisa Eshun-Wilson (Scripps): “Visualizing some of life’s most mysterious machines using cryoEM”
10:15 AM Lauren Hagler (Stanford): “Helping people through RNA biology and structure”
10:25 AM Antonio Tinoco Valencia (Harvard): “Deciphering human gut microbial cholesterol metabolism using chemical & engineering tools”
10:35 AM Louai Labanieh (Stanford): “Engineering safer and more effective cell-based immunotherapies”
10:45 AM Selasi Dankwa (Seattle Children’s): “Kinase signaling in endothelial cells: towards a molecular understanding of blood-brain barrier dysfunction and repair in cerebral malaria”
Break
10:55 AM Coffee break
Session II
Session II: Understanding function at the cellular scale
11:10 AM Ismail Ahmed (NYU): “Optical control of oxytocin signaling”
11:20 AM Kolade Adebowale (Harvard): “Towards mechanoimmunology for precision immuno-oncology”
11:30 AM Eva González Diaz (UCSF): “Leveraging bioengineering to elucidate the crosstalk between the microbiome, musculoskeletal tissues, and cancer progression”
11:40 AM Luis Hernandez-Nunez (Harvard): “The brain-body balancing act: the molecular, cellular, and circuit mechanisms underlying the function and development of internal organ feedback control systems”
11:50 AM Juan Vazquez (Berkeley): “A tale of two clades: evolution of longevity at its extremes”
12:00 PM Lunch break
Break
12:30 Bil Clemons (Hanisch Memorial Professor of Biochemistry, Caltech): “Mechanisms of phage-derived peptide antibiotics”
Keynote
Session III
Session III: Organisms and populations
1:00 PM Kekoa Taparra (Stanford): “Combating structural racism for native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander health data”
1:10 PM Meli’sa Crawford (UC Riverside): “Mouse model reveals how environmental exposures disrupt gut barrier function”
1:20 PM Shawna Follis (Stanford): “Quantifying structural and social determinants of cardiovascular disease disparities”
1:30 PM Claudia Varela (Boston University): “A sutureless patch platform for modulation of biomechanics in the acutely infarcted heart”
Closing
1:40 PM Closing remarks from Polly Fordyce (Stanford University), Jason Sello (University of California, San Francisco), and Aaron Streets (University of California, Berkeley)