Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

Mind in Vitro open hardware: From single-unit neural interfaces to robot-assisted mini-clusters
Xiaotian Zhang, Multi-Cellular Engineered Living Systems

Advancing crop oil production through bioengineering
Jia Dong, Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation

The effects of phthalates on reproductive aging
Ramses Santacruz-Marquez, Environmental Impact on Reproductive Health

Keynote
DISTILLING SIGNAL FROM THE NOISE OF INNOVATION: MICROBIOME AND AI BIOLOGICAL REASONING

Nicholas Lee-Ping Chia
Computational Biologist
Argonne National Laboratory

Lunch

Probing the patterns of glioblastoma-mediated microglia invasion using microengineered model
Chia-Wen Chang, Regenerative Biology and Tissue Engineering

Genomes, lions, and colonialism: revealing the genetic traces of European colonialism in Africa’s wildlife
Alida de Flamingh, Center for Indigenous Science

Evidence of parental care as a novel reproductive isolating mechanism in stickleback
Colby Behrens, Gene Networks in Neural and Developmental Plasticity 

Keynote
INSIGHT INTO BRAIN AGING & DISEASE FROM DROSOPHILA

Nancy M. Bonini
Florence R.C. Murray Professor of Biology
Secondary Faculty, Cell & Developmental Biology and Neuroscience, Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania