BioE 450—Spring 2020 (March 30-June 1, 2020)

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1		BioE 450: Advances In Biotechnology, Spring 2020			Mondays and Fridays, 9:30-10:50 am, via Zoom video !!
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3	#		Date	Name of Lecturer	Topic ( + Each Speaker will devote 5-10 minutes to a relevant discussion of ETHICS / key ethical considerations and potential conflicts, in their research and/or commercialization of the technology)	ZOOM LINKS for each lecture
4	1	Monday	April 6	Dr. David Miklos, Stanford Blood & Marrow Transplantation Medicine	Lymphoma Chimeric Antigen Receptor Therapy: Considering a CAR-T cell therapy upgrade?	Join URL: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/229044111
5	2	Friday	April 10	Dr. Bing Wang, Refuge Biotechnologies	The cell as a computer: applications of synthetic biology in immunotherapy	Join URL: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/938637207
6	3	Monday	April 13	Prof. Neil Kelleher, Dept. of Chemistry, Northwestern University/Integrated Protein Tech.	Sequencing the Human Proteome using Private & Public Sector Models	Join URL: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/802375256
7	4	Friday	April 17	Prof. Michael P. Snyder, Stanford B. Ascherman Professor and Chair of Genetics and Director of Genomics and Personalized Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine	Wearables !	Join URL: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/854041441
8	5	Monday	April 20	Dr. Philip Dawson, Scripps Research, La Jolla, California	Chemical Manipulation of Biological Macromolecules	Join URL: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/99148533230
9	6	Friday	April 24	Dave Feldman, Software Engineer and Entrepreneur turned Citizen Scientist and N=1 Biohacker	Blood Lipids (HDL / LDL / Triglycerides) personal & multi-person clinical data collection & analysis from a citizen scientist provide new insights challenging status quo medical beliefs	Join URL: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/95548150524
10	7	Monday	April 27	Prof. Matthew P. Anderson, MD PhD, Harvard Medical School, Dept. of Neurology	Anomalous cytotoxic astrocyte blebs and T lymphocytes in the brains of autism sufferers	Join URL: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/91274793359
11	8	Friday	May 2	Prof. David Kaplan, Tissue Engineering & Research Center, Tufts University, Boston	From textiles to medicine – the new silk road	Join URL: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/99858985795
12	9	Monday	May 4	Prof. Jen Dionne, Stanford Materials Science and Engineering & Radiology	Emerging nanophotonic platforms for infectious disease diagnostics - Re-imagining the conventional microbiology toolkit	Join URL: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/95329082819
13	10	Friday	May 8	Prof. Mehrdad Shamloo, Stanford Neurosurgery / CuraSen Inc.	Noradrenergic Modulation of Behavior, Neuroinflammation & Pathology in Neurodegenerative Disorders	Join URL: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/99649755273
14	11	Monday	May 11	Prof. David Corry, Dept. of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine	The Expanding Role of Fungi in Human Disease—Two Biotechnology Vignettes	Join URL: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/93604640924
15	12	Friday	May 15	Prof. Emma Lundberg, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden	Spatiotemporal dissection of human cells—a crowd-sourced and gamified approach	Join URL: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/98391712350
16	13	Monday	May 18	Prof. Annabelle Singer, Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Tech & Emory School of Medicine	New Approaches to Alzheimer's: From Neural Deficits to Neural Stimulation	https://stanford.zoom.us/j/99204814483
17	14	Friday	May 22	Prof. Craig Criddle, Stanford Environmental Engineering and Science	Can Microbial Biotechnology Turn the Tide on Plastics?	https://stanford.zoom.us/j/98035381422
18		Monday	May 25	No Class: Memorial Day Holiday
19	15	Friday	May 29	Dr. Srinivas Akkaraju, Founding Partner, Samsara BioCapital & Perry Karsen, Samsara BioCapital Partner	Vetting and Investing in Biotechnology Start-Ups in Silicon Valley	https://stanford.zoom.us/j/99888132699
20	18	Monday	June 1	Dr. David Haase, Founder & CEO, MaxWell Clinics	Systems Medicine: Personalized Treatment of Complex Illnesses Using 'Omics Tools in a Private Clinic	https://stanford.zoom.us/j/97428972249
21	17	Friday	June 5	Dr. Joel Dudley, Senior Vice President of Research, Tempus Inc., New York	Using data + design + machine intelligence to solve important problems in human health and disease	https://stanford.zoom.us/j/95278369896
22	18	Monday	June 8	Dr. Paul Bollyky, Dept. of Medicine (Infectious Disease) & Micro. & Immunology, Stanford	Bacteriophage as a structural element and immune modulator in bacterial biofilm infections	https://stanford.zoom.us/j/94945278836
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50				LAST YEAR'S (2019) LIST OF SPEAKERS
51		BioE 450: Advances In Biotechnology, Spring 2019			Mondays and Fridays, 4:30-5:50 pm, Hewlett 201
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54		Monday	April 1	Prof. Wah Chiu, Stanford BioE & Stanford Linear Accelerator	CryoEM: A Tool for Biotechnology Research
55		Friday	April 5	Prof. Mehrdad Shamloo, Stanford Neurosurgery / Curasen Inc.	Noradrenergic Modulation of Behavior, Neuroinflammation & Pathology in Neurodegenerative Disorders
56		Monday	April 8	Prof. Tony Wyss-Coray, Stanford Neurology / Alkahest Inc.	Young Blood for Old Brains: Heterochronic Plasma Therapy for Neurodegenerative Disease
57		Friday	April 12	Dr. Stephen Dominy & Casey Lynch, CEO, Cortexyme Inc.	P. gingivalis in Alzheimer’s Brains: Evidence for Causation and Treatment with Small-molecule Inhibitors
58		Monday	April 15	Prof. Peter Santa Maria, Stanford Otolaryngology / Auration Inc.	Novel Treatments for Chronic Pediatric Otitis Media (Ear Infections)
59		Friday	April 19	Dr. Srini Akkaraju (MD PhD), Samsara BioCapital	Vetting and Investing in Biotechnology Start-Ups in Silicon Valley
60		Monday	April 22	Dr. David Miklos, Stanford Blood & Marrow Transplantation Med.	A “Consumer Reports” of CAR-T Therapy in Lymphoma & How Stanford is Accelerating CAR Research
61		Friday	April 26	Prof. Michael Fischbach, Stanford BioE	Understanding and Engineering the Microbiome
62		Monday	April 29	Dr. Oscar Abilez (MD PhD), Stanford Cardiovascular Medicine	Bioengineering Approaches for Elucidating Cardiovascular Stem Cell Biology
63		Friday	May 3	Dr. Ruijie (Kelly) Zhang, Caltech / Amyris Inc.	Expanding Enzymatic Reaction Space using Directed Evolution
64		Monday	May 6	Dr. Kate Rosenbluth, Cala Health Inc.	Bioelectronic Therapies for the Nervous System: Wrist-Worn Device To Treat Essential Tremor
65		Friday	May 10	Dr. Patrick Daugherty, Serimmune Inc.	Comprehensive Serology Will Empower Diagnostics and Medicine
66		Monday	May 13	Prof. Christina Smolke, Antheia Inc. / Stanford BioE	Microbial Biosynthesis of Small Molecule Drugs
67		Friday	May 17	Prof. Stanley Qi, Stanford BioE	CRISPR Toolbox: New Power for Synthetic Genomics and Cell Engineering
68		Monday	May 20	Prof. Christine Stabell Benn, Univ. of Southern Denmark	A Gift from Africa: Harnessing Beneficial Non-Specific Effects of Live Vaccines to Save Lives
69		Friday	May 24	Prof. David C. Schwartz, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison	Microfluidic Devices and Innovations to Handle, Image, and Probe Chromosome-Sized DNA Molecules
70		Monday	May 27	No Class: Memorial Day Holiday
71		Friday	May 31	Prof. Joel Dudley, Mt. Sinai School of Med. / Onegevity Health Inc.	Democratizing Access to Actionable Tools and Information From Leading-Edge Biomedical Research
72		Monday	June 3	Dr. David Haase, MaxWell Clinics / MaxWell Biosciences Inc.	Systems Medicine: Personalized Treatment of Complex Illnesses Using 'Omics Tools in a Private Clinic
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78		BioE 450: Advances In Biotechnology, Spring 2020			Mondays and Fridays, 9:30-10:50 am, Skilling Auditorium
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81	1	Monday	March 30	Dr. Joel Dudley, Senior Vice President of Research, Tempus Inc., New York	Using data + design + machine intelligence to solve important problems in human health and disease
82	2	Friday	April 3	Dr. Paul Bollyky, Dept. of Medicine (Infectious Disease) & Micro. & Immunology, Stanford	Bacteriophage as a structural element and immune modulator in bacterial biofilm infections
83	3	Monday	April 6	Dr. David Miklos, Stanford Blood & Marrow Transplantation Medicine	Lymphoma Chimeric Antigen Receptor Therapy: Considering a CAR-T cell therapy upgrade?
84	4	Friday	April 10	Dr. Bing Wang, Refuge Biotechnologies	The cell as a computer: applications of synthetic biology in immunotherapy
85	5	Monday	April 13	Prof. Neil Kelleher, Dept. of Chemistry, Northwestern University/Integrated Protein Tech.	Sequencing the Human Proteome using Private & Public Sector Models
86	6	Friday	April 17	Prof. Justin Cooper-White, Australian Institute for Bioengineering & Nanotechnology	Elucidating the microenvironmental cues that regulate stem cell behaviours & translating these insights into biomaterial scaffolds and microdevices to direct stem cell differentiation
87	7	Monday	April 20	Dr. Philip Dawson, The Scripps Research Institute	Chemical Manipulation of Biological Macromolecules
88	8	Friday	April 24	Dave Feldman, Cholesterol Controller, Lipid Inspector, Software Engineer, Low Carb enthusiast, Intrepid N=1 Researcher, Citizen Scientist, & Entrepreneur	Blood Lipids (HDL / LDL / Triglycerides) personal & multi-person clinical data collection & analysis from a citizen scientist provide new insights challenging status quo medical beliefs
89	9	Monday	April 27	Prof. Matthew P. Anderson, MD PhD, Harvard Medical School, Dept. of Neurology	Anomalous cytotoxic astrocyte blebs and T lymphocytes in the brains of autism sufferers
90	10	Friday	May 2	Prof. David Kaplan, Tissue Engineering & Research Center, Tufts University, Boston	From textiles to medicine – the new silk road
91	11	Monday	May 4	Prof. Jen Dionne, Stanford Materials Science and Engineering; Radiology	In vivo biomedical force sensors
92	12	Friday	May 8	Prof. Mehrdad Shamloo, Stanford Neurosurgery / Curasen Inc.	Noradrenergic Modulation of Behavior, Neuroinflammation & Pathology in Neurodegenerative Disorders
93	13	Monday	May 11	Prof. David Corry, Dept. of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine	The Expanding Role of Fungi in Human Disease—Two Biotechnology Vignettes
94	14	Friday	May 15	Prof. Annabelle Singer, Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Tech & Emory	New Approaches to Alzheimer's: From Neural Deficits to Neural Stimulation
95	15	Monday	May 18	Prof. Emma Lundberg, Dept. of Bioengineering, Stanford School of Medicine	Spatiotemporal dissection of human cells - a crowd sourced and gamified approach
96	16	Friday	May 22	Prof. Craig Criddle, Stanford Environmental Engineering and Science	Can Microbial Biotechnology Turn the Tide on Plastics?
97		Monday	May 25	No Class: Memorial Day Holiday
98	17	Friday	May 29	Dr. Srinivas Akkaraju, Managing General Partner, Samsara BioCapital	Vetting and Investing in Biotechnology Start-Ups in Silicon Valley
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