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
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
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
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