| Time | Who | Title | Talk Title |
Introductions | 9:00-9:10 | TBD | TBD | |
| 9:10-9:15 | Nadav Ahituv, PhD | Director, Institute for Human Genetics, UCSF | |
Gene Therapy | 9:15-9:35 | Jacob Kimmel, PhD | Co-founder & President, NewLimit | Restoring youthful function with reprogramming therapies |
| 9:35-9:55 | Dan Hart, PhD | Senior Director, Head of Technology Development, EpiCRISPR | |
| 9:55-10:25 | Paul Donohoue | Director of Platform Discovery, Caribou Biosciences | |
| 10:25-10:45 | Chris Hsiung, MD, PhD | Assistant Professor, Institute for Human Genetics and Dept. of Surgery, UCSF | Higher-order combinatorial functional genomics |
| 10:45-11:15 | Panel Discussion | | |
Break | 11:15-11:45 | | | |
Keynote Speaker | 11:45-12:30 | Michael Snyder, PhD | Stanford W. Ascherman Professor of Genetics, Stanford University | |
Lunch & Career Panel | 12:30-1:45 | | | The career panel will be a round table discussion. Nick Page, PhD student, will lead the discussion with a few questions to get the ball rolling and from there we can take questions from other PhD students and postdocs in the audience. Come learn more about exciting and impactful career paths in the biotech industry. To join simply take your lunch to room GH-N114 (on the first floor of the Genentech building).
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AI | 1:45-2:05 | Kyle Farh, MD, PhD | VP & Distinguished Scientist, Illumina Artificial Intelligence Lab | |
| 2:05-2:25 | Shishi Luo, PhD | Director of Bioinformatics, Helix | |
| 2:25-2:45 | Xiao Yang, PhD | Co-founder & CEO, PromptBio | PromptBio: A Multi-Agent AI Platform for Bioinformatics Data Analysis |
| 2:45-3:05 | Jeff Spence | Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, UCSF | |
| 3:05-3:25 | Panel Discussion | | |
Break | 3:25-3:55 | | | |
Genomic Technologies | 3:55-4:15 | Kathleen Barnes, PhD | SVP Population & Precision Health, Oxford Nanopore | |
| 4:15-4:35 | Michael Schnall-Levin, PhD | Chief Technology Officer, 10X Genomics | |
| 4:35-4:55 | Matthew Kellinger, PhD | VP of Biochemistry & Co-founder, Element Biosciences | |
| 4:55-5:15 | Diego Calderon, PhD | Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, UCSF | The continuum of gene regulation at single-cell resolution, from Drosophilia development to human complex traits |
| 5:15-5:45 | Panel Discussion | | |
Reception | 6:00-7:00 | | | |