Exploring frontiers: Predicting biology

Join us July 25-26, 2019, at the Allen Institute for Exploring Frontiers: Predicting Biology, a symposium featuring the latest insights from leading modeling researchers from the fields of neuroscience, cell science and immunology, chaired by Markus Covert, Ph.D., leader of the Allen Discovery Center at Stanford University. The talks will address leveraging computation and mathematics to accelerate biological discovery.

Event Overview

Thursday, July 25:

Registration and breakfast, 8:30-9:00am

Welcome and introduction, 9:00am

Morning sessions, 9:00-11:50am

Cell biology panel discussion, 11:50am-12:35pm?

Moderated by Andrew McCulloch

Distinguished Professor of Bioengineering and Medicine

University of California, San Diego

Networking lunch (provided), 12:35-1:55pm

Afternoon sessions, 1:55-4:15pm

Neuroscience panel discussion, 4:15-5:00pm

Moderated by Christof Koch
Chief Scientist & President
Allen Institute for Brain Science

Friday, July 26:

Registration and breakfast, 8:30-9:00am

Welcome and introduction, 9:00am

Morning sessions, 9:00am-11:25am

Immunology panel discussion, 11:25am-12:10pm

Moderated by Hamid Bolouri

Director, Informatics and Computational Biology
Allen Institute for Immunology

Closing remarks, 12:10pm

Speakers include:

Bree Aldridge, Ph.D., Tufts University

Grégoire Altan-Bonnet, Ph.D., National Cancer Institute

Anton Arkhipov, Ph.D., Allen Institute for Brain Science

Neda Bagheri, PhD., Allen Institute for Cell Science

Mark Brynildsen, Ph.D., Princeton University

Markus Covert, Ph.D., Allen Discovery Center at Stanford University

Mary Dunlop, Ph.D., Boston University

Gaute Einevoll, Ph.D., Norwegian University of Life Sciences

Adrienne Fairhall, Ph.D., University of Washington

Zaida Luthey-Schulten, Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Martin Meier-Schellersheim, Ph.D., National Institute of Allergy and Infections Diseases

Kathryn Miller-Jensen, Ph.D., Yale University

Michael Reimann, Ph.D., École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Harlan Robins, Ph.D., Adaptive Biotechnologies

Peter Robinson, Ph.D., The University of Sydney

Shai Shen-Orr, Ph.D., Israel Institute of Technology

Peter Sorger, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School

Julie Theriot, Ph.D., University of Washington

Hiroki Ueda, MD, Ph.D., RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research

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