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. | Mary Sue and Kenneth Coleman Life Sciences Lecture
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