January 14, 2022

Lab Expo 2022

Lab Expo is a research symposium organized by undergraduate students with the purpose of increasing scientific literacy, developing interdisciplinary collaboration, and promoting scientific advocacy.

LEGS is a friendly competition amongst researchers where each person gives a 3 minute TED Talk about what they are working on. Following each presentation is a Q&A session with the judges and audience members. At the end, you get to decide the winner!

The Networking Session is an opportunity to connect with graduate students, industry professionals, and professors. You can learn about different labs on campus while interacting with faculty and graduate students as well as those working in the field of your interest.

Poster Session is an open forum for scientific discussion between undergraduates and researchers. Learn about why researchers are passionate about what they do, and become more scientifically literate. Also, you have the chance to be recruited to become a part of someone's research project!

Keynote Speaker: Dr. John Newsam, CEO of Tioga Research

John M. Newsam has been CEO of Tioga Research since launch in 2011, having served in corporate executive roles since 1996. Dr. Newsam has contributed scientific and strategic consulting to several US Fortune500 companies, to early phase biotech and materials companies in the US, UK, and Korea, to government institutions such as IFP Energies Nouvelles, and has served on numerous academic advisory committees. A materials chemist by training, John has authored over 170 scientific publications, on topics such as high throughput experimentation, skin-applied formulations, zeolites, crystallography and materials simulation. He has been recognized by several awards, including the Corday-Morgan Medal, and by elections as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the UK Royal Society of Chemistry. Dr. Newsam has delivered undergraduate courses on entrepreneurship and business innovation at UC San Diego, and has been an Adjunct Professor at both UC Santa Barbara (Materials Department) and UCSD (Chemistry & Biochemistry Department). John holds BA, MA and DPhil degrees in Chemistry from Oxford University.