31st Annual U.S. Symposium
July 20-22, 2020
Virtual Symposium
Sessions:
- Autonomous Vehicles
- Gene Editing with CRISPR
- DNA Data Storage
- Imaging the Smallest Scales
- Impact of Climate Change on Wildfires
- Science Communication
- Sleep
- Voter Integrity / Voter Suppression
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 Foundation. Additional funding from the National Academy of Sciences.