- When: Saturday April 21st, 2018 10AM - 4PM
- Where: Sapp Center auditorium, Stanford
Keynote Speakers
Dustin Schroeder
Assistant Professor, Geophysics
Schroeder is an Assistant Professor of Geophysics and (by courtesy) of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, a Faculty Affiliate with the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, and a first generation college student. He uses radar to study ice, water, and their interactions beneath Antarctica, Greenland, and shell of Jupiter's icy moon Europa.
Georgia Panagiotakos
UCSF Sandler Faculty Fellow
Georgia Panagiotakos is a Sandler Faculty Fellow at the University of California, San Francisco and an alumna of the Stanford Neuroscience Graduate Program. She studies how molecular and electrical signals within and between embryonic neural cells shape the development of the brain.
Program Schedule
- 10:00 – 10:30
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Dustin Schroeder – Ice Penetrating Radar: a Window into the Physical Processes of Ice Sheets - 10:30 – 12:00
Session 1: Grad Student/Post-Doc Talks
Alice Lay – Shining a light on health using color-changing nanoparticles
William Oestreich – Listen up: learning about whale and human behavior in the oceans using acoustics and machine learning
Jessica Ribado – Changing the gut feeling in medicine: the microbiome in the clinic
Cyndia Yu – CMB-Stage 4: The Next Generation Ground-Based Experiment for the Cosmic Microwave Background
Krishnakumar Vasudevan – Chytrids: Taming an emergent pathogen
Lashawn Peña – Move over Tesla!: Creating next generation CARs to kill solid cancers - 12:00 – 1:30
Lunch / Poster Session / Demos
- 1:30 – 2:00
Workshop
Dr. Katherine Alfieri – How to Succeed in a Summer Research Internship - 2:00 – 2:30
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Georgia Panagiotakos – How a new neuron finds its place in the growing brain - 2:30 – 3:30
Session 2: Grad Student/Post-Doc Talks
Melissa Ko – Big Data Meets Art: Using Visualizations to Unravel the Mystery of Drug Resistance in Cancer
Matthew Solt – A Quick Guide to Observing Invisible Matter
Ying Sun – Watering plants with ocean water: the next generation of agricultural plants
Maryann Tung – Smaller, Faster, Cheaper: A Lithographer’s View on the Future of Electronic Devices - 3:30 – 4:00
Panel Discussion
– The First Generation