Meet The Experts
Webinar Interviews With Researchers, Professors, and Professionals About Cutting Edge Topics
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Host
David H. Nguyen, PhD
Video Game Design
Michael Zyda, DSc
Professor of Engineering Practice
University of Southern California
Date: September 13, 2016. 3PM PST.
Computational Biology of Drug Design
Russ Altman, MD, PhD
Professor
Dept. of Bioengineering
Stanford School of Medicine
Date: September 28, 2016. 3PM PST.
How Mail is Delivered Inside a Cell
Randy Schekman, PhD
Nobel Prize 2013 (Physiology or Medicine)
Professor
Dept. of Molecular & Cell Biology
University of California, Berkeley
Date: October 20, 2016. 4PM PST.
Structure and Function in Tubulin in Disease
Eva Nogales, PhD
Professor, Dept. of Molecular & Cell Biology
University of California, Berkeley
Senior Staff Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Date: November 9th, 2016. 4PM PST.
Helping Scientists and Engineers Start Their Own Companies
Christie Canaria, PhD
Program Manager, Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
National Cancer Institute
Date: November 21st, 2017. 4PM PST.
Shakespeare, Law, and Literature
Frances E. Dolan, PhD
Distinguished Professor
Department of English
University of California at Davis
Date: December 6th, 2016. 4 PM PST.
Getting (More of) What You Want: The Science of Negotiation
Margaret Neale, PhD
Adams Distinguished Professor of Management
Co-Director, Executive Program for Women Leaders
Director, Influence and Negotiation Strategies Program
Director, Managing Teams for Innovation and Success
Stanford University, Graduate School of Business
Date: December 13th. 4PM PST.
Bioscience and Society - Genetics, Stem Cells, and Neuroscience . . . Oh My!
Henry T. Greely, JD
Director, Center for Law and the Biosciences
Professor (by courtesy) of Genetics, Stanford School of Medicine
Chair, Steering Committee of the Center for Biomedical Ethics
Director, Stanford Program in Neuroscience and Society
Date: January 10th, 2017. 4PM PST.
Integrated Bioimaging: Peaking Into the Inner Workings of Macromolecular Complexes, Organelles, Cells, and Tissues
Manfred Auer, PhD
Director of Physical Analysis, Joint BioEnergy Institute
Staff Scientist, Divisional Program Lead for Mesoscale BioImaging Technologies
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Autophagy: How Cells Eat Invaders and Their Own Waste
Qing ("Ching") Zhong, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and Biochemistry
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Date: April 6th, 2017.
Unscheduled Speakers for 2017
Molecular Dynamics of Protein Folding
Michael Levitt, PhD
Nobel Prize 2013 (Chemistry)
Robert W. and Vivian K. Cahill Professor in Cancer Research in the School of Medicine
Professor, by courtesy, of Computer Science
Stanford School of Medicine
How Tourism Can Be A Force for Social Good in Developing Nations
Hannah R. Messerli, PhD
Eisenhower Professor of Tourism Policy
Chair, International Institute of Tourism Studies
George Washington University, School of Business
How Racism Affects Your Biological Function
Amani M. Nuru-Jeter, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Chair, University of California Committee on Affirmative Action, Diversity, and Equity (UCAADE)
Associate Professor
Divisions of Community Health & Human Development; and Epidemiology
School of Public Health
University of California, Berkeley
Stem Cells, Heart Disease, and Cardiac Surgery
Sonja Schrepfer, MD, PhD
Professor, Dept. of Cardiac Surgery
Director, Stem Cell Transplantation Laboratory
University of California, San Francisco
Understanding Cancer Through Its Genome
Joe Gray, PhD
Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
Oregon Health & Sciences University
Member, Vice President Joe Biden's Cancer Moonshot Team
Tracking the Repair of DNA Damage Using Computational Algorithms
Sylvain Costes, PhD
Director, Advanced Microscopy Facility
Research Scientist
Dept. of Biological Systems and Engineering
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Producing Energy & Studying the Universe
Karl van Bibber, PhD
Professor, Chair
Dept. of Nuclear Engineering
University of California, Berkeley
The Wonders of Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry & Physics
Jeffrey A. Reimer, PhD
The Warren and Katharine Schlinger Distinguished Professor in Chemical Engineering
The C. Judson Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
Chair, Dept. of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
University of California, Berkeley
Gene Regulation in Neural Stem Cells
Robert Tjian, PhD
Professor
Dept. of Molecular & Cell Biology
University of California, Berkeley
President (2009-2016), Howard Hughes Medical Institute