Sessions:
- Are We Alone? The Search for Life Among the Stars
- Brain-Computer-Interfaces
- Heat Stress and Human Health: Tackling the World’s Most Dangerous Hazard
- Invisible Frontiers of Life
- PFAS Microplastics and Forever Chemicals / Unseen Contaminants
- Psychedelics and the Brain: Mechanisms, Mind and Medicine
- Sea Level and Earth System Transitions: Past Insights, Future Directions
- Star in a Jar
Are we alone? The Search for Life Among the Stars
Organizer: Greg Mosby, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER:
The Search for Life Among the Stars
Natasha Latouf, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
SPEAKERS:
Could life be hiding in plain sight? Investigating the detectability of life on planets around other stars
Stephanie Olson, Purdue University
NASA’s Search for Other Earths
Christopher Stark, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Brain-Computer-Interfaces
Organizers: Doug Blackiston, Tufts University
INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER:
Brain-Computer Interfaces: From Science Fiction to “Just” Science
Robert Gaunt, University of Pittsburgh
SPEAKERS:
Intelligent Neural Interfaces to Restore and Rehabilitate Movement
Amy Orsborn, University of Washington
Seeing the Brain in High Definition: The Next Generation of Electrode Arrays
Jonathan Viventi, Duke University
Heat Stress and Human Health: Tackling the World’s Most Dangerous Hazard
Organizer: Carlee Purdum, University of Houston
INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER:
Addressing the World’s Most Dangerous Hazard through Heat Governance
Ladd Keith, University of Arizona
SPEAKERS:
Heat-related Mortality in US State Prisons
Ufuoma Ovienmhada, University of Arizona
Exploring Mechanisms Driving the Link Between Heat Stress and Brain Health
Robbie Parks, Columbia University
Invisible Frontiers of Life
Organizer: Allyson Sgro, HHMI Janelia Research
INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER:
Breaking Through Biases, Boundaries, and Blinders at the Frontiers of Microbiome Science
Benjamin Wolfe, Tufts University
SPEAKERS:
Ocean Microbes as Biological Ambassadors
Sarah Hu, Texas A&M University
The Invisible Architects of Life: From the Origins of Complex Life to a Changing Planet
Valerie De Anda, University of Vienna
PFAS Microplastics and Forever Chemicals / Unseen Contaminants
Organizers: Saskia Mordijck, William & Mary and Emmy Smith Johns Hopkins University
INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER:
Mapping the Unseen
Jessica Reiner, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
SPEAKERS:
Is this safe to [drink, eat, breathe]?
Measuring Chemical Hazards in our Environment
Carsten Prasse, Johns Hopkins University
Jessica Goddard, SimpleLab, Inc.
Assessing Chemical Exposures Across the Life Course:
Implications for Equity and Health
Julia Varshavsky, Northeastern University
Psychedelics and the Brain: Mechanisms, Mind and Medicine
Organizer: Amber Alhadeff, Monell Chemical Senses Center and Nicola Grissom, University of Minnesota
SPEAKERS:
Reopening Critical Periods with Psychedelics
Gül Dölen, University of California, Berkeley
The Promise of Psychedelics: Mental Health and Beyond
Albert Garcia-Romeu, Johns Hopkins University
Sea Level and Earth System Transitions: Past Insights, Future Directions
Organizer: Emmy Smith, Johns Hopkins University
INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER:
An Introduction to Sea Level and Earth System Transitions:
From Past Insights to Future Directions
Jessica Creveling, Oregon State University
SPEAKERS:
Tropical Beaches and Polar Ice
Blake Dyer, University of Victoria
The Ups and Downs of Coastlines and Sea Level
Jacqueline (Jacky) Austermann, Columbia University
Star in a Jar
Organizer: Saskia Mordijck, William & Mary
INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER:
Star in a Jar: Studying Astrophysical Systems in the Laboratory
Carolyn Kuranz, University of Michigan
SPEAKERS:
Laboratory Astrophysics with Laser-Driven Plasmas
Derek Schaeffer, University of California, Los Angeles
From Geospace to the Laboratory:
Plasma Experiments on Electron Energization
Jim Schroeder, Wheaton College
The Frontiers of Science symposium series is sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences. Major support is provided by the Philip and Sima Needleman Family Legacy Fund. Additional funding is also provided from the National Academy of Sciences.
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