Text overlaying an illustrated stand of DNA on a dark sky background: Building the next-generation genetic toolkit
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