Speakers

Keynote Address (read more…)
Carolyn Bertozzi, Ph.D.

2022 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
Baker Family Director of Stanford Chemistry, Engineering, and Medicine for Human Health,
Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, and Professor of Chemical and Systems Biology and of Radiology
Stanford University
Therapeutic opportunities in glycoscience 

 

Breakthrough Discovery Symposium I (read more…)
Wen Li, Ph.D.
Professor and Director, Center for Sensory and Systems Psychiatry
Department Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Fear in the Sensory Cortex: Its Role in Fear and Anxiety Disorders
Jeff Temple, Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Clinical Research, School of Behavioral Health Sciences at UTHealth Houston,Betty and Rose Pfefferbaum Chair in Child Mass Trauma and Resilience
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Violence is preventable: Using research to create safer relationships, schools, and communities
Pamela Wenzel, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology
Mechanometabolism in cell fate determination
 Postdoctoral Presentations (read more…)
Guillermo Aquino-Miranda, Ph.D.
Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy
Corticothalamic circuits regulating reward-approach and threat avoidance behavior in rats
Elham Rastegari, Ph.D.
Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology
The role of transcription factor Pdp1 in regulating mitochondrial homeostasis
Victor Banerjee, Ph.D.
Department of Neurology
Insights into zoonotic risks: Structural analysis of infectious chronic wasting disease (CWD) prions
Breakthrough Discovery Symposium II (read more…)
Alexis Bavencoffe, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology
Targeting the MIF signaling to alleviate chronic pain after spinal cord injury
Juneyoung Lee, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Neurology
The gut microbiome and host metabolism in social isolation
Diana Proctor, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
Candida auris and the full ESKAPE: The skin as a reservoir for antibiotic resistance and transmission