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31st Annual U.S. Symposium

July 20-22, 2020

Virtual Symposium

Sessions:

Video Available 

 Autonomous Vehicles

Organizers: Erez Aiden, Baylor College of Medicine and Marco Gallio, Northwestern University

INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER:
Autonomous Vehicles: What is Known, Knowable, and Unknown
Laura Fraade-Blanar, RAND Corporation

SPEAKERS:
Ethical Opt-Out and the Social Dilemmas of Self-Driving Cars
Azim Shariff, University of British Columbia

Motion Prediction for Self-Driving Cars
Eric Wolff, nuTonomy

 Gene Editing with CRISPR

Organizers: Marco Gallio, Northwestern University

INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER:
Cheating Mendel: Can We Study Genetically Complex Traits Using Fewer Mice?
Kim Cooper, University of California, San Diego

SPEAKERS:
Gene Drives: How to Engineer A Population
Valentino Gantz, University of California, San Diego

A CRISPR Possibility for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
Yi-Li Min, Vertex Genetic Therapies

 DNA Data Storage

Organizers: Tim Althoff, University of Washington and Corinna Schindler, University of Michigan

INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER:
DNA Data Storage and Computing
Georg Seelig, University of Washington

SPEAKERS:
Combining DNA and Materials for the Storage and Transmission of Information
Robert N. Grass, ETH-Zurich

A Future for Digital Data in Nature's Oldest Storage Device
Dina Zielinski, Sorbonne Université

 Imaging the Smallest Scales 

Organizers: Lucas Wagner, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER:
Small Molecule Structure Determination Using MicroED
Hosea M. Nelson, University of California, Los Angeles

SPEAKERS:
Seeing is Believing – Catching Single Molecules in the Act
Felix Fischer, University of California, Berkeley

Watching Biological Molecular Machines in Action In Real-Time with Angstrom-Resolution Optical Tweezers
Matthew Comstock, Michigan State University

 Impact of Climate Change on Wildfires 

Organizer: Sarah Minson, U.S. Geological Survey

INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER:
The Impact of Climate Change on Wildfires
Valerie Trouet, University of Arizona

SPEAKERS:
How and Where Climate Change Enables Changing Fire Activity
John Abatzoglou, University of Idaho

Thinking about Wildfire as a Natural Hazard
Sarah McCaffrey, USDA Forest Service

 Science Communication

Organizer: Sara Mojarad, University of Southern California

INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER:
The Science of #SciComm: On Emotion and Humor
Sara Yeo, University of Utah

SPEAKERS:
To Tweet or Not To Tweet
Aimee Hood, Bayer Crop Science

Viral Misinformation
Jessica Belser, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

 Sleep

Organizers: Marco Gallio, Northwestern University and Rebecca Calisi Rodriguez, University of California, Davis

INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER:
Sleep: Why We Do It, and Why We Can’t Live Without It
Sara Aton, University of Michigan

SPEAKERS:
Sharp Transitions in the Function of Sleep
Van Savage, University of California, Los Angeles

Metabolic Control of Sleep
Anissa Kempf, University of Oxford

 Voter Integrity / Voter Suppression

Organizers: Sarah Tuttle, University of Washington

INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER:
The Voice of the People and Its Interpretation
Greg Herschlag, Duke University

SPEAKERS:
Voter Suppression and Disproportionate Impact on Minority Votes
John Kuk, Washington University at St. Louis

Challenges in Collecting Data on Elections and Election Administration
Lindsay Nielson, Fors Marsh Group

The Kavli Frontiers of Science symposium is sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences. Major support is provided by the Kavli FoundationAdditional funding from the National Academy of Sciences.

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