2020 Featured Attendees — Stanford.Berkeley.UCSF Next Generation Faculty Symposium

Keynote Speakers

Featured

Esther & Harold E. Edgerton Career Development Chair
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
MIT

Keith & Cecilia Terasaki Presidential Endowed Chair
Professor of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
Dean of the Division of Life Sciences
UCLA

Special Guest Speakers

Special Guest Speakers2020

Persis Drell

Stanford University Provost

Jennifer Chayes

UC Berkeley Associate Provost of the Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society, and Dean of the School of Information

Featured Speakers

Featured

Dr. David Cox

Current Institution: Stanford University

Position & Department: Assistant Professor of Genetics (starting PI position after completion of Fellowship)

Fellowship Institution: Stanford (CV)

Talk Title: RNA editing with CRISPR-Cas13

Dr. Kyle Daniels

Current Institution: Stanford University

Position & Department: Assistant Professor of Genetics

Postdoctoral Institution: UCSF (CV)

Talk Title: High-throughput screening of synthetic costimulatory domains to modulate CAR T cell function

Dr. Chantell Evans

Current Institution: Duke University

Position & Department: Assistant Professor of Cell Biology

Postdoctoral Institution: University of Pennsylvania (CV)

Talk Title: Investigating the temporal dynamics of neuronal mitophagy

Dr. Mireille Kamariza

Current Institution: UCLA

Position & Department: Assistant Professor of Bioengineering

Postdoctoral Institution: Harvard (CV)

Talk Title: Towards Equitable BioMedicine

Dr. Geoffrey Lovely

Current Position: Scientist at Atreca

Postdoctoral Institution: National Institute of Aging (CV)

Talk Title: Visualizing a lymphocyte genome editor: watching the RAG recombinase locate antibody genes in living B cells

Dr. Nicole Martinez

Current Institution: Stanford University

Position & Department: Assistant Professor of Chemical & Systems Biology

Postdoctoral Institution: Yale (CV)

Talk Title: Pseudouridine synthases modify human pre-mRNA co-transcriptionally and affect splicing

Dr. James Nunez

Current Institution: UC Berkeley

Position & Department: Assistant Professor of Molecular & Cell Biology

Postdoctoral Institution: UCSF (CV)

Talk Title: Programmable transcriptional memory by CRISPR-mediated epigenome editing

Dr. Caroline Palavicino-Maggio

Current Institution: Harvard Medical School

Position & Department: Assistant Professor of Neuroscience

Postdoctoral Institution: Harvard (CV)

Talk Title: Investigating the underlying neural circuits that regulate female aggressive behavior

Dr. Thomas Stewart

Current Institution: Penn State

Position & Department: Assistant Professor of Biology

Postdoctoral Institution: University of Chicago (CV)

Talk Title: Fins, limbs, and the origin of morphological novelty

Dr. Catherine Tcheandjieu

Current Institution: UCSF/Gladstone Institute

Position & Department: Assistant Professor, Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Postdoctoral Institution: Stanford (CV)

Talk Title: A multi-ethnic GWAS study of ascending aorta diameter and polygenic risk prediction for thoracic aortic disease

Dr. Ottman Tertuliano

Current Institution: University of Pennsylvania

Position & Department: Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Postdoctoral Institution: Stanford (CV)

Talk Title: Probing nanoscale human bone fracture to engineer biocompatible materials

Dr. Hawa Racine Thiam

Current Institution: Stanford University

Position & Department: Assistant Professor of Bioengineering

Postdoctoral Institution: NHLBI (CV)

Talk Title: The nucleus: squeeze it, burst it, to mediate immune responses

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Honorable Mentions

Dr. Eman Akam (Harvard University) (CV)
Molecular MR Imaging of disease activity in bleomycin-injury mouse model of pulmonary fibrosis
Ms. Lindsey Backman (MIT) (CV)
Structurally investigating a niche pathway for chemical reversal of proline hydroxylation in the pathogen C. dificile
Dr. R. Konane Bay (Princeton) (CV)
What controls failure in ultrathin polymer films?
Dr. Cheavar Blair (UCSB) (CV)
Cardiac mutations and protein homeostasis: how point mutations in contractile proteins alter the quality control systems that regulate proteostasis
Dr. John Brooks (UT Southwestern) (CV)
The microbiota coordinates diurnal rhythms in intestinal innate immunity with the host circadian clock
Dr. David Castillo-Azofeifa (UCSF) (CV)
The roles of cell death and mechanical signaling in regeneration and aging of epithelial stem cells
Dr. Ahmed El Hady (Princeton)
Dr. Mariana Gomez-Schiavon (UCSF) (CV)
Origin and evolution of dynamic properties of gene regulatory circuits
Dr. Christian Guerrero-Juarez (NSF-Simons Center) (CV)
Binary fates of skin wound healing: A multi-scale, systems biology approach.
Dr. Colwyn Headley (Texas Biomedical Research Institute) (CV)
Ameliorating mitochondrial dysfunction in T cells.
Dr. Rogelio Hernandez-Lopez (UCSF)(CV)
T cell circuits that sense antigen density with an ultrasensitive threshold
Dr. Manuel Razo-Mejia (Caltech) (CV)
Does evolution care about bits? Information as currency in nature’s stock market
Dr. Florentine Rutaganira (Berkeley) (CV)
Chemical genetics in the closest living relatives of animals
Dr. Melody Smith (Memorial Sloan Kettering & Well Cornell Medical College) (CV)
Preclinical and clinical use of donor chimeric antigen receptor T cell therapy
Dr. Christina Termini (UCLA) (CV)
Leveraging proteoglycans for hematopoetic stem cell regeneration
Dr. Linda Vo (UCSF) (CV)
A stem cell platform for engineering T cells de novo for immunotherapy
Dr. Asher Williams (Cornell) (CV)
Engineering bacterial glycosylation systems for biomedical applications