Schedule

Session 1: Genes, Development, and Biological Adaptation

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From Silent Spring to Silent Night: A Tale of Toads and Men

Dr. Tyrone Hayes, Distinguished Chair for Innovative Teaching and Research, Professor of Integrative Biology, University of California Berkeley

Single cell analysis highlights differential gene expression patterns between the upper and lower jaw

Dr. Sierra Marable, Postdoctoral Researcher in Biology, California Institute of Technology

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Nitric Oxide: a Host-derived Molecule Enabling the Survival of Bacteria in Infection-like Conditions 

Sarah Weisflog, PhD Candidate in Biology, California Institute of Technology

Lactobacillus brevis that secretes ornithine can prophylactically promote regeneration processes in Drosophila

Judah Bates, PhD Candidate in Biology, California Institute of Technology

stk32a links sleep homeostasis to suppression of sensory and motor systems

Jasmine Emtage, PhD Candidate in Biology, California Institute of Technology

Special Seminar

From Entropy to Equity: The Hidden mechanisms of wealth creation throughout your scientific career

Ajay Kshatriya M.S., Chief Executive Officer of Aizen Therapeutics, Operating Partner at Wilson Hill Ventures

Session 2: Materials, Energy, and the Physical Universe

Structure–Function Relationships in Monolithic Materials for Integrated Reactive Systems

Dr. Leslie Gilliard-AbdulAziz, Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Stanford University

Low-cost nitride surface passivation of GaAs solar cells for the space solar power project 

Susana Torres-Londono, PhD Candidate in Materials Science, California Institute of Technology

From Core–Mantle Boundary to Carbon Capture: Materials Under Extreme Conditions for Climate Solutions

Dr. Shanece Esdaille, Postdoctoral Researcher in Materials Science, University of California Santa Cruz

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Illuminating the Invisible: The Quest to Detect Dark Matter

Dr. Alvine Kamaha, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, University of California Los Angeles

The Unique Formation and Evolution of Magnetars and Constraining Fast Radio Burst Progenitors with Polarization

Myles Sherman, PhD Candidate in Physics, California Institute of Technology

Special Seminar

Neutrophils Biophysics Through the Lens of NETosis

Dr. Hawa Racine Thiam, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University

Session 3: Computation, Cognition, and Complex Systems

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Dr. Blaise-Pascal Tine, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of California Los Angeles

Can Your Brain Tell the Difference? Neural Signatures of Real vs. AI-Generated Faces

Thomas Henning, PhD Candidate in Social and Decision Neuroscience, California Institute of Technology

Perception-Based Safety for Robotic Systems

Gilbert Bahati, PhD Candidate in Mechanical Engineering, California Institute of Technology

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Introducing RV2B: A Robust Tool for Fitting the Radial Velocity Curve Equation 

Dr. Don Dixon, Postdoctoral Scholar in Astrophysics, Vanderbilt University

SPT AGN Monitoring System: Moving Towards Simultaneous Millimeter-wave, Gamma-ray, and Optical Observations 

Dr. John Hood, Postdoctoral Scholar in Astrophysics, University of Chicago

Special Seminar

Infrastructure That Centers Equity, Trust, and Community

Dr. Khalid Osman, Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University

Session 4: Physical Systems, Dynamics, and Discovery

The Supermassive Black Hole Canvas: Expressing the intricacies of Relativistic Jet Launching Mechanisms Using Curved Spacetime Geometry

Dr. Ronald Gamble, Assistant Research Scientist, University of Maryland, Cosmic Origins Research Scientist, NASA

The Effects of SMBH Feedback on Galaxy Morphology

Patricia Fofie, PhD Candidate in Astrophysics, University of California Irvine

Frequency Scatter in Kinetic Inductance Detector Arrays for the Terahertz Intensity Mapper

Talia Saeid, PhD Candidate in Astrophysics, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Arizona State University

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Capturing subsurface impacts of recent rainstorms in the San Joaquin Valley using coda wave interferometry

Nelly-Wangue Moussissa, PhD Candidate in Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California Berkeley

Keynote Seminar

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Dr. Debbie Senesky, Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University

Poster Session & Social Reception

Dabney Gardens

Developing Treatment for the Severe Respiratory Disease Affecting the Community Residing Around California’s Salton Sea

Dr. Keziyah Yisrael-Gayle, Postdoctoral Researcher in Biomedical Science, University of California Riverside

Label-Free Enrichment of Adipogenic hMSC Subpopulations Using Insulating Dielectrophoresis

Zuri Rashad, PhD Candidate in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California Irvine

Trustworthy, Distributed Computation of Secure Supersingular Elliptic Curves

Krystal Maughan, PhD Candidate in Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Vermont

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Yulin Xu, PhD Student in Computer Science, University of Southern California

Evaluating Data Modalities, Model Scale, and Safety in On-Device Stress Prediction

Ibukunoluwa Soyebo, PhD Student in Computer Engineering, University of Southern California

Succinate Dehydrogenase Role in Anaerobic Respiration of Mytilus galloprovincialis

Jordan James Bond, PhD Student in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Irvine

Assessing GAN-Generated Synthetic Images for Improving Imbalanced Medical Image Classification

Britney Collier, Undergraduate Student in Computer Science, California State Polytechnic University Pomona

Synthesis of Zinc Phthalocyanines within Zeolites

Ariyanna Glass, Undergraduate Student in Chemistry, Georgia State University

Into the Thick of it: Searching for Heavily Obscured Supermassive Black Holes with Chandra

Yabo Ogunduyile, Undergraduate Student in Physics, California State University Los Angeles

Normative RNFL Thickness Mapping in Rhesus Macaques: A Translational Tool for Detecting Optic Neuropathy

J’adore Bailey, Undergraduate Student in Global Disease Biology, University of California Davis