• When: Saturday April 21st, 2018       10AM - 4PM
  • Where: Sapp Center auditorium, Stanford
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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