Schedule

Session 1

High resolution visualization of transcription termination

Dr. Isaac Fianu, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, California Institute of Technology

Developing Next-Gen Invasive Speech Prosthesis

Dr. Daril Brown, Postdoctoral Researcher in Neuroengineering, University of California Davis

Pyrimidine Triones as Potential Activators of p53 Mutants

Dr. Maryam Mohammed Fallatah, Postdoctoral Researcher in Ophthalmology & Physiology/Biophysics, University of California Irvine

BREAK

A Likely Suspect: LPS from the Salton Sea Microbiome Drives Neutrophilic Pulmonary Inflammation

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

Identification of genes responsible for Caenorhabditis elegans resistance to Chalcone 17 and 30 using CRISPR-Cas9

Ayuba Abaka, MS Candidate in Biotechnology, California State University Fresno

The impact of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) on functional retinal development

Etchi Ako, PhD Candidate in vision science, University of California Berkeley

Engineering cell-specific protein delivery vehicles for erythroid lineage cells

Mekedlawit Tsegaye Setegne, PhD Candidate in Chemistry, Stanford University

Session 2

Accretion Flow Properties around Black Hole X-ray Binaries

Dr. Shina Adegoke, Postdoctoral Researcher in Physics, California Institute of Technology

Looking Inside and Out: Directly Observing the Gas Ejected From, and Infalling Onto, Galaxies at “Cosmic Noon”

Evan Haze Núñez, PhD Candidate in Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology

Building Blocks of Quantum Networks

Emanuel Green, PhD Candidate in Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology

BREAK

Chemical threads of quantum tapestries for energy and electronics

Dr. Kwabena Bediako, Associate Professor of Chemistry, University of California Berkeley

Mixed matrix membranes with in-situ synthesized functional polymer microparticles: Fundamental investigations and applications to water purification and biomanufacturing

Dr. Mamadou Diallo, Professor of Environmental Engineering, California Institute of Technology

Probing the Mechanism of Selective Phosphate Adsorption from Wastewater using Aqueous and Synchrotron X-ray Characterization

Edward Apraku, PhD Candidate in Environmental Engineering, Stanford University

Special Seminar

Coastal Socio-environmental Systems Research through the Lens of Vulnerability and Resilience

Dr. Elliott White Jr, Assistant Professor of Earth System Science, Stanford University

Session 1

Tuning mitochondrial function to cellular needs on the micron scale

Dr. Samantha Lewis, Assistant Professors of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California Berkeley

Functional diversity within a family revealed through high-throughput biochemistry

Eliel Akinbami, PhD candidate in Bioengineering, Stanford University

Development of an Ultrafast Electron Pump - Electron Energy Loss (EELS) Probe Spectrometer to Reveal Novel Dynamics

Audrey Washington, PhD Student in Chemistry, California Institute of Technology

BREAK

Dexterity for Collaborative Robotics

Dr. Monroe Kennedy III, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University

Simulating Emergent LLM Social Behaviors in Multi-agent Systems

Dr. Saadia Gabriel, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of California Los Angeles

Special Seminar

Environmental Justice Agenda for the Electronics Revolution

Dr. Oladele Ogunseitan, Distinguished Professor or Population Health and Disease Prevention, University of California Irvine

Session 2

Distributed Computations of Secure Supersingular Elliptic Curves

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

Tuning Thermal Transport in Van der Waals Materials with Morphology Engineering

Amalya Johnson, PhD Candidate in Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University

Special Seminar

Bridging Academia, Industry, and Innovation: Navigating a Dynamic STEM Career

Dr. Theresa Johnson, Lecturer of Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Head of Product at Roblox, Angel Investor

Keynote Seminar

Progress Towards the Development of Broadly Neutralizing Anti-HIV Biologics

Dr. Stephen Mayo, Professor of Biology and Chemistry, California Institute of Technology