Schedule

friday April 5, 2024

8:30 - 10:00

Breakfast

10:00 - 10:30

Opening Remarks

BSEC Co-President Sarah Weisflog, BSEC Co-President Thomas Henning, Caltech President Thomas Rosenbaum

Session 1: 10:30-12:00

The Development of In-Cell Protein Footprinting Coupled with Mass Spectrometry for Structural Biology in Complex Model Systems

Dr. Lisa Jones, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California San Diego

SCALING KNOWLEDGE PROCESSING FROM 2D CHIPS TO 3D BRAINS

Dr. Kwabena Boahen, Professor of Bioengineering, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Stanford

IF I HAD A NICKEL

Adjeoda Tekpor, Graduate Student, Chemistry, California Institute of Technology

Calibrating Liquid-Vapor and Ice-Vapor Transition Timescales in Simple Cloud Models from Flight Campaign Data

Jordan Benjamin, Graduate Student, Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology

Dr. Charles Norton, Deputy Chief Technologist, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory / California Institute of Technology

12:00 - 1:30

Lunch

Catered by Caribbean Gourmet

1:30 - 2:30

Science Education Panel

Dr. Christopher Newman, Courtney Reddix, Samuel Reed

Session 2: 2:30 - 4:05

MOUSE MODEL REVEALS HOW ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURES DISRUPT GUT BARRIER FUNCTION

Dr. Meli'sa Crawford, Postdoctoral Researcher, Biomedical Sciences, University of California Riverside

EXPLORING THE TUMOR ECOSYSTEM: MODELING ACROSS SCALES

Dr. Stacey Finley, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Quantitative & Computational Biology, University of Southern California

MODELING THE HETEROGENEOUS APOPTOTIC RESPONSE OF CASPASE-MEDIATED SIGNALING IN TUMOR CELLS

Diamond Mangrum, Graduate Student, Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California

Break

New reactions of dicoordinated carbocations and methods for structural characterization

Dr. Hosea Nelson, Professor of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology

NEUROTHERAPEUTICS FOR TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURIES

Dr. Janay Vacharasin, Assistant Professor of Biology, Francis Marion University

Special Seminar: 4:20-5:00

Dr. Tracy Johnson, Professor of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology, University of California Los Angeles

6:30 - 9:30

BSEC Social Reception

at Magnolia House

saturday April 6, 2024

8:30 - 10:30

Breakfast

10:30 - 10:45

Opening Remarks

BSEC Community Outreach Chair Ange-Célia Priso Fils

Session 1: 10:45-12:00

Tolerable Delay: Designing Resilient Systems for Intermittent Remote Patient Monitoring

Dr. Corey Baker, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering-Systems, University of Southern California

Motivating Adherence in mHealth Systems with Underserved Patients

Alyssa Donawa, Graduate Student, Computer Engineering, University of Southern California

RETHINKING SCALING LAWS FOR LEARNING IN STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTS

Tinashe Handina, Graduate Student, Computing + Mathematical Sciences, California Institute of Technology

AI-DRIVEN DISCOVERY OF DIGITAL BIOMARKERS FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISORDERS: IDENTIFYING ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN NEURAL CIRCUITRY AND MOTOR IMPAIRMENTS

Favour Nerrise, Graduate Student, Electrical Engineering, Stanford

NAVIGATING UNCERTAINTY IN EPIDEMIC CONTEXTS WITH REINFORCEMENT LEARNING

Elizabeth Ondula, Graduate Student, Computer Science, University of Southern California

12:00 - 1:15

Lunch

Catered by Perry's Joint Cafe

1:15 - 2:15

Industry Research Panel

Dr. Peter Emtage, Albert "Joey" Jefferson, Dr. Stephanie Threatt

Session 2: 2:15 - 4:00

A Lightweight High-Extension​ Manipulator Using Pinched Tape Springs​

Obumneme Godson Osele, Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford

EXPLORING MULTIFUNCTIONALITY IN OPTICAL NANOMULTILAYERED COATINGS

Danielle White, Graduate Student, Materials Science, University of Southern California

A SUPERCONDUCTING MKID HIGH-RESOLUTION MULTI-OBJECT SPECTROGRAPH TESTBED FOR THE DETECTION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF EXOPLANETS

Dr. Ronald López, Postdoctoral Researcher, Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of California Santa Barbara

THE INVISIBLE HALOS OF GALAXIES

Dr. Ed Buie, Assistant Professor of Astronomy, Vassar College

Break

A WIDER VIEW OF SUSTAINABILITY

Dr. Isaiah R. Speight, Assistant Professor in Chemistry, The College of William & Mary

Geometric Parameterization of Southern California Sedimentary Basins for Seismic Site Response Analysis and Modeling

Dr. Chukwuebuka Nweke, Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Southern California

Keynote Seminar: 4:05-5:00

BIOLOGICAL PROPULSION IN (AND OF?) THE OCEAN

Dr. John Dabiri, Professor in Graduate Aerospace Laboratories (GALCIT) and Mechanical Engineering, California Institute of Technology

5:00 - 5:10

Conference Picture

5:10 - 6:45

Social Reception & Poster Session

Dabney Gardens