Event Contact

Stephanie Amen, samen@wustl.edu

Speaker Information

 https://sites.wustl.edu/genomesciences/symposium-schedule/

Registration Check-in 
(Registration is free & required)
9:00 am – 10:00 am

Opening Remarks
David Perlmutter, MD
Dean of the School of Medicine
Executive Vice Chancellor for Medical Affairs
10:00 am – 10:05 am

Beverly Wendland, PhD
Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
10:05 am – 10:10 am

Session I

Holden Thorp, PhD
(AAAS)
Keynote speaker, Editor-in-Chief, Science
Maintaining and Communicating a Robust Scientific Record in the Age of AI and Social Media
10:10 am – 11:00 am

Daphne Koller, PhD
(Insistro)
Founder and CEO of Insistro            
Transforming Drug Discovery Using Artificial Intelligence
11:00 am – 11:50 am

Lunch: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

A boxed lunch, including a vegetarian option, will be provided for all registered participants.

Session II

Jo Handelsman, PhD
(University of Wisconsin)
Director, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery
Advising the President on Science Policy
1:00 pm – 1:50 pm

Shirley Malcom, PhD
(AAAS)
Senior Advisor and Director, SEA Change,
American Association for the Advancement of Science
The Social Contract in Genomics
1:50 pm – 2:40 pm

Coffee Break: 2:40 pm – 3:00 pm

Session III

Carlos Bustamante, PhD
(Stanford University)
Founder and President of Galetea
Enabling Precision Health At Scale For All
3:00 pm – 3:50 pm

Jeffrey I. Gordon, MD
(Washington University in St. Louis)
Founding Director, The Edison Family Centerfor Genome Science & Systems Biology
Seeing the Microbial Dimension of ‘Ourselves’ in a Rapidly Changing World