Division of Biology and Medicine
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM
Breakfast
 
8:30 AM - 8:45 AM
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Thomas Roberts, PhD, Senior Associate Dean for the Program in Biology Richard Bennett, PhD, Charles A. and Helen B. Stuart Professor of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
 
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
15-minute Faculty Talks
  • Anda Chirila, PhD, Manning Assistant Professor of Neuroscience 
  • Matthew Howe, MD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior 
  • Amanda Arulpragasam, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior 
  • Leenoy Meshulam, PhD, June and Howard Zimmerman Assistant Professor of Physics, Neuroscience, and Brain Science
 
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Coffee Break
 
10:15 AM - 10:50 AM
Communication of Science
Rani Elwy, PhD
 
10:50 AM - 11:50 AM
15-minute Faculty Talks
  • Preeti Sunderaraman, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior 
  • Jessica Tingle, PhD, Assistant Professor of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology 
  • Patrick Green, PhD, Assistant Professor of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology 
  • Carolyn Pearce, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine
 
11:50 AM - 1:00 PM
Lunch
 
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
15-minute Faculty Talks
  • Sana Raoof, MD, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology 
  • Weihan Li, PhD, Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry 
  • Slavica Pavlovic-Djuranovic, PhD, Dean’s Assistant Professor of Medicine and Biological Sciences 
  • Imad El Ghouleh, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine
 
2:00 PM - 2:15 PM
Coffee Break
 
2:15 PM - 3:30 PM
Foundation Funding and Corporate Engagement Panel Discussion
  • Moderator: Greg Hirth, PhD, Vice President for Research Panelists: 
  • Courtney O’Malley, President, The Starr Foundation 
  • Sam Mencoff ’78, P’11, P’15, Co-Founder, Madison Dearborn Partners 
  • Rajeev “Raj” Shah P’29, Managing Director at RA Capital Management 
  • Anna Rosenzweig, Sr. Manager, Higher Education & Research, Nvidia
 
3:30 PM - 3:45 PM
Coffee Break
 
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Keynote Address: The Intersection of Nature, Human and Artificial Intelligence
Subra Suresh, PhD, Professor at Large at Brown University and Vannevar Bush Professor of Engineering Emeritus at MIT
 
4:45 PM - 6:00 PM
Reception