All plenary sessions will be presented in Alumni Hall’s 7th floor lecture hall.
Plenary Session 1—Dickson Prize in Medicine Lecture
CRISPR Systems and the Future of Genome Engineering
11:00 a.m., Thursday, 20 October
Jennifer Doudna, PhD
Li Ka Shing Chancellor’s Chair in
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Professor of Molecular and
Cell Biology and of Chemistry
University of California, Berkeley
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Plenary Session 2—Klaus Hofmann Lecture
Circuits and Circuit Disorders: Approaches to Neuromodulation
4:00 p.m., Thursday, 20 October
Mahlon DeLong, MD
William Patterson Timmie Professor of Neurology
Emory University School of Medicine
Plenary Session 3—Provost Lecture
Science and Science-Related Policy at Science Magazine
11:00 a.m., Friday, 21 October
Jeremy M. Berg, PhD
Editor in Chief of the Science Family of Journals
Associate Senior Vice Chancellor for Science Strategy and Planning, Health Sciences
Professor of Computational and Systems Biology, School of Medicine
University of Pittsburgh
Plenary Session 4—Mellon Lecture
Genome Regulation by Long Noncoding RNAs
4:00 p.m., Friday, 21 October
Howard Y. Chang, MD, PhD
Professor of Dermatology
Stanford University School of Medicine