Keynote Speaker.
Dr. Randy Schekman
Winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Our Invited Speakers
Dr. Vincent Racaniello
Professor, Microbiology & Immunology in the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University
Earth’s Virology Professor. Host and Producer for five podcasts: This Week in Virology, This Week in Parasitism, This Week in Microbiology, This Week in Evolution, and Urban Agriculture.
Dr. Jeff Brender
Staff Scientist, The National Institutes of Health
Dr. Meng-Han Tsai
Assistant Professor, Department of Health, Human Services and Public Policy, California State University - Monterey Bay
Dr. Jennifer Hu
Post-Doctorate, University of California - San Francisco
Dr. Drew Endy
Professor, Bioengineering, Stanford University
Aravinth Panch
Co-founder, DreamSpace Academy
Dr. Kanika Khanna
Post-Doctorate, Stanford University
Dr. Carol Rentas
Assistant Professor, Biomedical laboratory Sciences, George Washington university
Dr. Renu Verma
Postdoctoral Fellow, Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine
The Science Communication Panel
Dr. Alexandra Freeman
Executive Director, Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication, University of Cambridge
Dr. Brittany Anderton
Associate Director, Research Talks, iBiology
Dr. Stephen Granade
Science communicator and Author
Peter Starr (Host)
Writer, Producer and Animator of This Glorious Clockwork
Anshit Singh
Master’s Candidate working on Mitochondrial Metabolism, Co-founder and CEO of Biocord Network
The WomenInSTEM Panel
Dr. Alison Van Eenennaam
Animal Biotechnology and Genomics Extension Specialist, University of California, Davis
Dr. Nadine Bongaerts-Duportet
Senior Scientst in Molecular Biology, Gourmey
Dr. Martina Bodner
Founder, SciComm for Everyone
Dr. Sophie Arthur
Soph Talks Science
Candice Cheung (Host)
PhD Candidate in Biomedical Engineering; Co-Founder and CAO of Biocord Network
The VisibilityInSTEM Panel
Dr. Richard Mankin
Research Entomologist, US Department of Agriculture
Johnnie Jae
Founder, A Tribe called Geek, Not Your Mascots, LiveIndigenousOK
Alexander Petrovnia
Enviromental epidemiologist
Lietsel Richardson
PhD Candidate, Biomedical Sciences
Candice Cheung (Host)
PhD Candidate in Biomedical Engineering; Co-Founder and CAO of Biocord Network
Vic (DNGayest)
PhD candidate, Immuno-Oncology
The Startup and Entrepreneurship Panel
Dr. Tony Kulesa
Founder and Partner, Petri
Christopher Li
CEO and Co-Founder, BioBox Analytics
Dr. Jon Moulton
Biology and Special projects, Gene Tools, LLC
Alexey Guzey
Co-founder and President, New Science
Peter Starr (Host)
Writer, Producer and Animator of This Glorious Clockwork
Our Internal Speakers
Marcus Weinman
PhD Candidate, University of Vermont
Olivia Duddy
PhD Candidate, Princeton University; MicroBites
Anaïs Biclot
PhD Candidate, KULeuven; Co-Founder of MicroBites
Dr. Catarina De Almeida Marques
Post-doctorate scientist, University of Glasgow