SCHEDULE
8:30 a.m. | Welcome by U-M President Mark Schlissel

8:40 a.m. | Brief retrospective on the life sciences at U-M

9:10 a.m. | Introduction of the Mary Sue and Kenneth Coleman Life Sciences Lecturer
Alan R. Saltiel, Ph.D.
Director, Comprehensive Diabetes Center, Professor, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine; Director, Life Sciences Institute 2002-2015

9:15 a.m. | Mary Sue and Kenneth Coleman Life Sciences Lecture: Nature’s gift: how the discovery of structural principles in a microbial protein helped illuminate the pathophysiology of psychiatry
Karl Deisseroth, M.D., Ph.D.
D.H. Chen Professor of Bioengineering and of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University; Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator

10:10 a.m. | Morning break

10:30 a.m. | Single molecules and single cells: probing chemistry and biology at their fundamental limit
David R. Walt, Ph.D.
Core faculty member, Wyss Institute at Harvard University; Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School; Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor; Founder of Illumina, Inc. and Quanterix, Corp.

11:30 a.m. | Whole-animal imaging with high spatiotemporal resolution
Philipp Keller, Ph.D.
Group Leader, Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Research Campus

12:30 p.m. | Lunch break

1:45 p.m. | Probing the molecular organization of cells and organelles using cryo-electron microscopy
Daniela Nicastro, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Cell Biology and Biophysics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

2:45 p.m. | LSI labs poster session (Great Lakes Rooms)

4:00 p.m. | Engineering sub-nm, organs & ecosystem
George Church, Ph.D.
Core faculty member, Wyss Institute at Harvard University; Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School; Professor of Health Sciences and Technology, Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology

4:55 p.m. | Closing remarks