Annual Postdoc Symposium 2021
25th May 2021
The UCSC STEAM Postdoc Symposium is an annual symposium dedicated to highlighting and celebrating work from early career researchers at UCSC. Faculty, staff, postdocs, graduate students and undergraduates are welcome to attend but registration is required. Postdocs and graduate students are encouraged to present their research in a clear, concise manner that is accessible to a broad audience. In 2021, the symposium will be held virtually in order to comply with local regulations.
Keynote Speaker
Marcia McNutt
President of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States
Marcia McNutt is a geophysicist and president of the National Academy of Sciences. From 2013 to 2016, she served as editor-in-chief of the Science family of journals. Prior to joining Science, she was director of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) from 2009 to 2013. During her tenure, the USGS responded to a number of major disasters, including earthquakes in Haiti, Chile, and Japan, and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. McNutt led a team of government scientists and engineers at BP headquarters in Houston who helped contain the oil and cap the well. For her contributions, she was awarded the U.S. Coast Guard’s Meritorious Service Medal. Before joining the USGS, McNutt served as president and chief executive officer of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), in Moss Landing, California. During her time at MBARI, the institution became a leader in developing biological and chemical sensors for remote ocean deployment, installed the first deep-sea cabled observatory in U.S. waters, and advanced the integration of artificial intelligence into autonomous underwater vehicles for complex undersea missions.
Program
Program
12:00 – Welcome - Priya Crosby and Kyle Floyd
Session 1:
Moderator - Gerrald Lodewijk
12:05 – As Above / So Below: What can primordial intelligence tell us about the Universe?, Oskar Elek – Postdoc, Computational Media
12:25 – Academical: A Choice-Based Interactive Storytelling Game for Enhancing Moral Reasoning, Knowledge, and Attitudes in Responsible Conduct of Research, Katelyn Grasse – Postdoc, Computational Media
12:45 – Start-up/Entrepreneurship Workshop Discussion
1:05 – The case of the missing crayfish: Using environmental DNA for biodiversity monitoring and ecological restoration, Kim Ballare – Postdoc, Ecology and Evol. Bio.
1:25 – Unveiling the nature and origins of galaxies and the Universe with Big Astronomical Data, Ting-Wen Lan – Postdoc, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
1:45 – Poster Session
Session 2:
Moderator - Jess Sevetson
2:35 – Solar System Insights from Stony-iron Meteorites, Jasmeet Dhaliwal – Postdoc, Earth & Planetary Sciences
2:55 – Rapid, sensitive, and semi-quantitative detection of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies by biolayer interferometry, John Dzimianski – Postdoc, Biomolecular Engineering
3:15 – Connecting mechanistic models to machine-learning and data-driven models in ecology, Uttam Bhat – Postdoc, Institute of Marine Sciences
3:35 – Casein Kinase 1 activity on the PER2 FASP region leads to feedback product inhibition to regulate PER2 stability, Jonathan M. Philpott - Grad Student, Chemistry and Biochemistry
3:55 – Break
Keynote Session:
Moderator - Priya Crosby
4:00 – Marcia McNutt, President - National Academy of Sciences
5:00 – Closing Remarks
6:00 – Social Hour
Sponsorship
Platinum Sponsors
Gold Sponsors
Silver Sponsors
We are also grateful for the support from the Jack Baskin Endowment.