
Annual Symposium
9:00 AM to 5:15 PM | May 29, 2025
Saltiel Life Sciences Symposium 2025
Forum Hall, Palmer Commons
Audience
This is a public event.
Building the next-generation genetic toolkit
The 2025 Saltiel Life Sciences Symposium will examine the next-generation genetic tools that are unlocking new discoveries and understandings of human health and disease, from synthetic biology and protein engineering to to epigenomics and genome editing.
Schedule
- 9:00 a.m. | Welcome
- 9:10 a.m. | Research talk
Clifford P. Brangwynne, Ph.D.
Director of the Omenn-Darling Bioengineering Institute, June K. Wu ’92 Professor in Engineering, Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University - 9:55 a.m. | Research talk
James Nuñez, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley - 10:25 a.m. | Research talk
Leonardo Morsut, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, University of Southern California - 10:50 a.m. | Morning break
- 11:10 a.m. | Research talk
Omar Abudayyeh, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School; Investigator, Brigham and Women's Hospital - 11:40 a.m. | Research talk
Danwei Huangfu, Ph.D.
Member, Developmental Biology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute; Professor, Cell and Developmental Biology Program, Weill Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Cornell University - 12:10 p.m. | Research talk
Justin Crooker, Ph.D.
Group Leader, European Molecular Biology Laboratory - 12:35 p.m. | Poster session and lunch
- 2:00 p.m. | Research talk
Michael Lin, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Neurobiology and Bioengineering, Stanford University - 2:50 p.m. | Research talk
Li Ye, Ph.D.
Abide-Vividion Chair in Chemistry and Chemical Biology and Professor of Neuroscience, Scripps Research; Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator - 3:15 p.m. | Afternoon break
- 3:35 p.m. | Research talk
Jared Toettcher, Ph.D.
Deputy Director of the Omenn-Darling Bioengineering Institute, Associate Professor of Molecular Biology and Bioengineering, Princeton University - 4:05 p.m. | Research talk
Pulin Li, Ph.D.
Eugene Bell Career Development Professor of Tissue Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Core Member, Whitehead Institute - 4:35 p.m. | Research talk
Changyang Linghu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology and Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan - 5:00 p.m. | Closing remarks