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"

Siobhan Brady, PhD
University of California, Davis; Department of Plant Biology

"Transcriptional Regulation of Nitrogen Metabolism"

"Artificial Intelligence, Health, & Society"

Rashida Richardson
Director of Policy Research AI Now Institute

Kristian J. Hammond
Professor of Computer Science McCormick School of  Engineering Northwestern University

Uwe Rudolph, PhD
University of Illinois; Department of Comparative Biosciences

"GABAA Receptor Subtypes: A new perspective on functional selectivity of inhibition in the brain"

Catherine Klapperich, PhD
Boston University; Professor and Vice Chair of Biomedical Engineering, Director, Precision Diagnostics Center

"Paper and Microfluidic Systems for Infectious Disease Diagnostics and Continuous Physiological Monitoring"

CNRG is offering two Biocluster courses.

9:00-11:30am: Introduction to Linux class.

1:30-4:30pm:Introduction to Biocluster

Space is limited to 44 participants, register at http://www.igb.illinois.edu/biocluster-class-signup.

Erik R. Nelson, PhD
Assistant Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Do’s and don’ts of the academic interview and the art of a successful job talk with the opportunity to receive feedback on an application package.