Hong-Yan Shih, PhD
Department of Physics

“Emergence of a stable nonequilibrium bacteria-phage collective state from multi-scale feedback”

Xudong Guan
NMR Specialist, IGB Core Facilities

"Pure Shift NMR"

Noah Fierer, PhD
University of Colorado, Boulder, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

"The Microbial Ecology of Our Homes"

Liqing Chen
Assistant Professor, Department of Plant Biology

"Imaging Sugar Distribution in Vivo Using FRET Sensors"

Carl Zimmer
New York Times columnist and author

Redefining heredity, weaving together historical and current scientific research, exemplary original reporting, and his own experience as a parent of two daughters, Carl Zimmer will explore ways in which DNA editing and CRISPR may change our world, and examine controversial topics in light of current advances in DNA analysis.

Reception and book signing to follow. Sponsored by the Department of History and the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology.

Lisa Ainsworth, PhD
USDA ARS, University of Illinois; Department of Plant Biology; IGB Faculty, Genomic Ecology of Global Change & Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation themes

"Genetic and Genomic Approaches to Improve Maize Response to Ozone"

Mayandi Sivaguru
Associate Director, IGB Core Facilities

"A Geobiological Vantage Point of Human Kidney Stone Changes the Medical Wisdom Held Over a Century"

K. Dane Wittrup, PhD
MIT, Departments of Chemical Engineering and Biological Engineering

"Intratumoral immunotherapy: Occam’s pharmacokinetics"

Jingyi Fei
Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Chicago

"Kinetic Mechanisms of RNA-based Gene Regulation Revealed by Quantitative Imaging"

Rodolphe Barrangou, PhD
North Carolina State University, Department of Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition Sciences

Dan Davidson
Director of CNRG and Research Computing

"Maximizing HPC Efficiency"

Nancy Keller, PhD
University of Wisconsin – Madison
Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology

Daniel Benjamin, PhD
University of Southern California, Dornsife Center for Economic and Social Research

"Social-Science Genomics: Promises, Pitfalls, and Progress Report"

Mikel Hernaez
IGB Director of Computational Genomics

"Reducing the Footprint of Genomic Information Via Standardized Formats"

Kingsley Boateng
Senior Research Specialist, IGB Core Facilities

"3D Alignment and Segmentation of TEM-like Images"

Cari Vanderpool, PhD
University of Illinois; Department of Microbiology; IGB Faculty, Microbiome Metabolic Engineering

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

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

Jay Keasling, PhD
University of California Berkeley College of Chemistry; Professor, Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering and Professor, Department of Bioengineering

Michael Fischbach, PhD
Stanford University, Department of Bioengineering