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29th Annual U.S. Symposium

Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center - Irvine, California
February 15-17, 2018

Sessions:

Video Available

 3D Genome

Organizers: Kai Tan, University of Pennsylvania

INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER:
 A 3D Code in the Human Genome
Erez Lieberman Aiden, Baylor College of Medicine

SPEAKERS:
3D Epigenome Reconfiguration in  Brain Development and Neurodegenerative Disease
Jennifer Phillips-Cremins, University of Pennsylvania

Nanoscale Visualization of Cis-Regulation in Development
Alistair Boettiger, Stanford University

 Bio-interfaces – Blurring the Borders between Biological and Digital Computing

Organizers: Krysta Svore, Microsoft

INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER:
Bio-interfaces– Blurring the borders between biological and digital computing
Helene Steiner, Royal College of Art, London and Cell-free Technologies, Ireland

SPEAKERS:
Community-Driven Biotechnology
David Kong, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

 Brain-Machine Interfaces

Organizers: Bradley Voytek, University of California, San Diego

INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER:
Brain-Machine Interfaces
Maryam M. Shanechi, University of Southern California

SPEAKERS:
Fast and Slow Learning with Brain-Computer Interfaces
Aaron P. Batista, University of Pittsburgh

Edward Chang, University of California, San Francisco

 Green Chemistry

Organizers: Jennifer Schomaker, University of Wisconsin, Madison

INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER:
Safer Made: Chemistry That We Can All Love
Martin Mulvihill, University of California, Berkeley

SPEAKERS:
Using Renewable Electricity to Close the Anthropogenic Carbon Cycle 
Yogesh Surendranath, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Inherently Safer Communities Through Green Design
Heather Buckley, University of Victoria

 Humans and Pathogens in an Evolutionary Context

Organizers: Jenny Tung, Duke University

INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER:
Introduction to Humans and Pathogens in an Evolutionary Context
Nels Elde, University of Utah School of Medicine

SPEAKERS:
How Pathogens have Shaped the Human Genome
Luis Barreiro, CHU Sainte Justine Research Center

Strange Alliances in Immune Defense of Hosts
Andrea Graham, Princeton University

 Materials by Design

Organizers: Emanuel Gull, University of Michigan

INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER:
Materials by Design
Lucas Wagner, University of Illinois

SPEAKERS:
Can We Use Our Ability to Control The Placement of Atoms to Answer Fundamental Scientific Questions?
Danna Freedman, Northwestern University

A Google of Materials
Kristin Persson, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

 Ocean Anoxia

Organizers: Katja Meyer, Willamette University

INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER:
Breathless through time: oxygen change in ancient and future oceans
Erik Sperling, Stanford University

SPEAKERS:
Ocean Oxygen, the Distribution of Planetary Life, and Mechanisms of Abrupt Climate Warming
Sarah E. Myhre, University of Washington

From Genes to Ecosystems: Microbial Consequences of Ocean Oxygen Loss 
Frank Stewart, Georgia Institute of Technology

 The Search for Life Near and Far

Organizers: Catherine Espaillat, Boston University

INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER:
The Search for Life Near and Far
Shawn Domagal-Goldman, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)

SPEAKERS:
Towards An Integrative Approach to Life Detection on Ocean Worlds
Britney Schmidt, Georgia Institute of Technology

Identifying Inhabited Worlds
Giada Arney, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center 

The Kavli Frontiers of Science symposium is sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences. Major support is provided by the Kavli Foundation, with additional funding from the National Academy of Sciences.

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