2021 Talks
May 5: “Inclusion of Underrepresented Populations in Science”
Hosted by: HHMI Janelia Research Campus
Speakers:
- Michael Summers, HHMI/University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), US
- Freeman Hrabowski, President, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), US
- Mamokgethi Phakeng, Vice-Chancellor, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa
- Ramakrishna Ramaswamy, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi ( IIT-Delhi), India.
- Sonajharia Minz, Vice-Chancellor, Sido Kanhu Murmu University (SKMU), India
Moderated by: Kenneth Gibbs, National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), US
Speakers:
- Thomas Cech, HHMI/University of Colorado Boulder, US
- Xiaohua Shen, Tsinghua-Peking Centre For Life Sciences (CLS), China
- Narry Kim, Institute for Basic Science and Seoul National University, Korea
Moderated by: Edith Heard, EMBL, Germany
Speakers:
- Himla Soodyall, Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf), South Africa
- K. Thangaraj, Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnosis (CDFD), India.
- David Reich, HHMI/Harvard Medical School, US
Moderated by: Sarah Tishkoff, University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), US
Speakers:
- Linda-Gail Bekker, Desmond Tutu HIV Centre, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa
- Thumbi Ndung'u, Deputy Director of Science, Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI), South Africa
- Sharon Lewin, Director, Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Australia
Moderated by: Robert Siliciano, Professor and HHMI Investigator, Johns Hopkins University, US
Speakers:
- Nicole Dubilier, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Germany
- Guy Cochrane, EMBL - European Bioinformatics Institute, UK
- Minhan Dai, Xiamen University, China
Moderated by: Justin Crocker, EMBL-Heidelberg, Germany
Speakers:
- Luis Herrera-Estrella, Director, Institute of Genomics for Crop Abiotic Stress Tolerance (IGCAST), US
- Sandra Díaz, Professor, CONICET - National University of Córdoba, Argentina
- Dame Caroline Dean, Royal Society Professor, John Innes Centre, UK
Moderated by: Jonathan Jones, Group Leader, The Sainsbury Laboratory, UK
Nov. 3: "Connectomes: Can connectomics help us understand the brain and sustain the revolution in AI? "
Hosted by: MRC-Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB)
Speakers:
- Anthony Zador, Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, US
- Grace Lindsay, SWC-Gatsby Research Fellow, University College London, UK
- Moritz Helmstaedter, Director, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Germany
Moderated by: Greg Jefferis, Programme Leader, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK
Speakers:
- Rob Martienssen, Professor and HHMI Investigator, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), US
- Sarah Hearne, Principal Scientist, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Mexico
- Raviga Sambanthamurthi, Former Director, MPOB Advanced Biotechnology and Breeding Centre, Malaysia
Moderated by: Marc Van Montagu, Chairman, VIB-International Plant Biotechnology Outreach (IPBO), Belgium