The 2025 Saltiel Life Sciences Symposium will examine the next-generation genetic tools that are unlocking new discoveries and understandings of human health and disease, from synthetic biology and protein engineering to epigenomics and genome editing.

The 2025 Saltiel Life Sciences Symposium will examine the next-generation genetic tools that are unlocking new discoveries and understandings of human health and disease, from synthetic biology and protein engineering to epigenomics and genome editing.

Schedule
9:00 a.m. | Welcome

9:10 a.m. | Mary Sue and Kenneth Coleman Life Sciences Lecture
Clifford P. Brangwynne, Ph.D., Director of the Omenn-Darling Bioengineering Institute, June K. Wu ’92 Professor in Engineering, Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University

9:55 a.m. | Research talk
James Nuñez, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley

10:25 a.m. | Research talk
Leonardo Morsut, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, University of Southern California

10:50 a.m. | Morning break

11:10 a.m. | Research talk
Omar Abudayyeh, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School; Investigator, Brigham and Women's Hospital

11:40 a.m. | Research talk
Danwei Huangfu, Ph.D., Member, Developmental Biology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute; Professor, Cell and Developmental Biology Program, Weill Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Cornell University

12:10 p.m. | Research talk
Justin Crocker, Ph.D., Group Leader, European Molecular Biology Laboratory

12:35 p.m. | Poster session and lunch

2:00 p.m. | Research talk
Michael Lin, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Neurobiology and Bioengineering, Stanford University

2:50 p.m. | Research talk
Li Ye, Ph.D., Abide-Vividion Chair in Chemistry and Chemical Biology and Professor of Neuroscience, Scripps Research; Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator

3:15 p.m. | Afternoon break

3:35 p.m. | Research talk
Jared Toettcher, Ph.D., Deputy Director of the Omenn-Darling Bioengineering Institute, Associate Professor of Molecular Biology and Bioengineering, Princeton University

4:05 p.m. | Research talk
Pulin Li, Ph.D., Eugene Bell Career Development Professor of Tissue Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Core Member, Whitehead Institute

4:35 p.m. | Research talk
Changyang Linghu, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology and Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan

5:00 p.m. | Closing remarks