John Glass, PhD
J. Craig Venter Institute; Professor and Leader of the Synthetic Biology & Bioenergy Group

"Design, Construction, and Analysis of a Synthetic Minimal Bacterial Cell"

Join us as we discuss important issues facing women in the Academic space. All are welcome regardless of race, gender, sexuality, religious affiliation, or academic standing.

Coffee and refreshments provided courtesy of CABBI.

The microERA Research Symposium will feature a keynote from Dr. Andrew Kau and a poster competition. Full details and registration can be found here.

Nathalie Pochet, PhD
Broad Institute, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School; Assistant Professor of Neurology

"*AMARETTO for network biology and medicine: linking diseases, drivers, targets and drugs via graph-based fusion of multi-omics, clinical, imaging and perturbation data"

Dr. Kelvin Droegemeier
Director of The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

Dr. Droegemeier serves as President Donald J. Trump’s science advisor and leads OSTP in its coordination of science and technology initiatives across the Federal Government. His background is in extreme weather, numerical weather prediction, and data assimilation. He holds MS and PhD degrees in atmospheric science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED

James Eberwine, PhD
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine; Professor of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics, Co-Director Penn Program in Single Cell Biology

"Integrating Single Cell Subcellular Biology in the Quest for Emergent Biologies"

Sarah E. O’Connor, PhD
Director, Department of Natural Product Biosynthesis Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology
Jena, Germany

"Chemistry and Biology of Plant Natural Products"