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      CONNECT Frontiers in Science & Technology presents Charging Forward: Materials Challenges for Electrochemical Energy Storage
      Tuesday, June 12, 2012

    
    

Frontiers in Science & Technology

The Frontiers in Science & Technology lecture series aims to enhance the dialogue between the business community and San Diego's leading scientists, engineers and researchers. These monthly lunch seminars provide access to a number of cutting-edge research efforts underway within San Diego's leading institutes.

"CONNECT has set a nationwide standard for programs and resources necessary for entrepreneurs and innovators to take ideas from concepts to markets. How technology moves forward is featured in their unique Frontiers in Science lecture series...The topics are contemporary and the people attending are making valuable new connections."

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Past presenters include (chronologically):

Digital Doctoring: Lowering the Cost of Healthcare Through Innovation
Joseph M. Smith, Chief Medical Officer and Chief Science Officer, West Wireless Health Institute

Conquering Diabetes: The Pursuit of a Cure
Matthias von Herrath, Director, Center for Diabetes Research and Professor, Division of Developmental Immunology, La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology

The Research Behind Vyndaqel: The First Approved Treatment for a Rare Neurodegenerative Disease
Jeffery Kelly, Lita Annenberg Hazen Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry; Chairman, Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute

Treating Drug Addiction with Vaccines: Myths and Reality
Kim Janda, Professor, Departments of Chemistry and Immunology; Ely R. Callaway, Jr. Chair in Chemistry, Immunology and Microbial Science; Director, Worm Institute of Research and Medicine; The Scripps Research Institute

Leading the Sustainability Revolution: UC San Diego’s Secret Weapon
Byron Washom, Director, Strategic Energy Initiatives, UC San Diego

From Stem Cells to Neurons: Alternative Splicing in Action
Gene Yeo, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, UC San Diego

It’s Raining Data! Coping with the Exponential Deluge
Michael Norman, Ph.D., Director, San Diego Supercomputer Center; Distinguished Professor, Department of Physics; Director, Laboratory for Computational Astrophysics, UC San Diego

Back From the Brink: The Science of Resuscitation
Daniel Davis, M.D., Professor, Clinical Emergency Medicine; Director, Center for Resuscitation Science; UC San Diego Medical Centers

Biophotonics: Lighting Up Life
Axel Nimmerjahn, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Richard Allan Barry Developmental Chair, Waitt Advanced Biophotonics Center, Salk Institute for Biological Studies

The Neurology of Taste
Thomas Scott, Ph.D., Vice President for Research; Dean, Graduate Affairs, San Diego State University

Detecting Contagious Outbreaks through Social Networking
James Fowler, Ph.D., Professor, Medical Genetics & Political Science, UC San Diego; Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation

Understanding Alzheimer's: The Promise of Stem Cells
Larry Goldstein, Ph.D., Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Professor, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine; Director, UC San Diego Stem Cell Program

Cancer Stem Cells: A New Twist to Tumor Therapy
Inder Verma, Ph.D., Professor, Laboratory of Genetics; Irwin and Joan Jacobs Chair in Exemplary Life Science, Salk Institute for Biological Sciences

Pharmaceuticals from the Sea: Using marine microorganisms in unimaginable ways
Bill Gerwick, Ph.D., Professor, Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography & Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, UC San Diego

The Wireless Revolution: The next generation of embedded technology
Larry Larson, Ph.D., Chair, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UC San Diego

Addiction and the Brain: The neurobiology of a deadly disorder
George Koob, Ph.D., Professor & Chair, Committee on the Neurobiology of Addictive Disorders, The Scripps Research Institute

Surgery Without a Scar: Revolutionary Techniques That Will Change the Field Forever
Santiago Horgan, M.D., Professor of Surgery, Director of Minimally Invasive Surgery, Director of the Center for Treatment of Obesity, UC San Diego Medical Center

21st Century Directions in Infectious and Chronic Disease Research
Alex Sette, Ph.D., Director, Center for Infectious Disease; Head, Division of Vaccine Discovery, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology

Tumors Beware: Apprehending Genes that are Harboring Cancer Cells
Kristiina Vuori, M.D., Ph.D., President and Pauline & Stanley Foster Presidential Chair, Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute; Director, NCI-designated Cancer Center

Algae Biotechnology: Working to Transform Fuel, Food and Medicine
Stephen Mayfield, Director, San Diego Center for Algae Biotechnology and John Dove Isaacs Chair of Natural Philosophy Department of Biological Sciences, UC San Diego

What's Happening in the Gulf: The First 90 Days
Tony Haymet, Director, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego

Disaster Relief Workers Navigate Chaos Using SDSU Mapping Technology
Eric Frost, Director, SDSU Visualization Center and the Center for Information Technology and Infrastructure; Co-Director, Institute for Public Security and Health; Co-Director, San Diego State University (SDSU) Homeland Security Program

New Paradigms for Drug Development
Gary S. Firestein, M.D., Director, Clinical and Translational Research Institute (CTRI); Professor, Medicine; Chief, Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology; Dean, Translational Medicine, UC San Diego School of Medicine

Exercising Your Imagination through Biomimicry
Lee Hagey, Ph.D., Biomimicry Expert, Zoological Society of San Diego; Project Scientist, UC San Diego School of Medicine
Jon Prange, Venture Business Manager, Zoological Society of San Diego

A Non-Invasive Wireless Window into the Brain
Philip Low, Ph.D., Founder, Chairman & CEO, NeuroVigil, Inc; Adjunct Professor, Stanford School of Medicine; Visiting Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Research Affiliate, Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Swarms of Ocean Robots to Monitor Oil Spills
Jorge Cortés, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, UC San Diego

In Search of Less Toxic Cancer Therapies
Catriona Jamieson, Ph.D., Professor, Pathology; Associate Director, Translational Research, Moores Cancer Center, UC San Diego

When Cells Go Rogue: Controlling Tumor Growth
David Cheresh, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Medicine, Hematologic Malignancies Program, UC San Diego; Director, Stem Cell Research Program, Moores UC San Diego Cancer Center

Using Stem Cells to Cure Diabetes
E. Edward Baetge, Ph.D., Senior Vice President & Chief Scientific Officer, Novocell

Inside the Mind of an Internet Criminal: How Economics Impact Cyber Security
Stefan Savage, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego

Revolutionizing Vaccine Development
Shane Crotty, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Division of Vaccine Discovery, La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology

Transforming Healthcare through Wireless Innovation
Eric Topol, M.D., Director, Scripps Translational Science Institute, Chief Academic Officer, Scripps Health; West Wireless Institute

Green Innovation: The Emergence of San Diego as a Hub for Biofuel Innovation
Steven Briggs, Ph.D., Professor, Cell & Developmental Biology, UC San Diego; Co-founder, Sapphire Energy

Amazing Man-Made Nanomachines
Joseph Wang, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Nanoengineering, UC San Diego

From Monkeys to Mechanics: The History and Future of Heart Surgery
Dr. Stuart Jamieson, Distinguished Professor and Head, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, UC San Diego Medical Center

Advancing America's National Security
Frank E. Gordon, Ph.D., Head, Research and Applied Science Department, SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific

Seeing the Ocean Through Autonomous Eyes
Russ Davis, Ph.D., Research Professor, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), UC San Diego; Director, Instrument Development Group, SIO, UC San Diego

Groundbreaking New UCSD Institute Partners Engineering, Medical, and Pharmacy Schools to Improve Health Care Delivery
Shu Chien, M.D., Ph.D., Institute for Engineering in Medicine, UC San Diego

Thermoelectric Materials for Energy Conversion: Whither nanotechnology?
Prabhakar Bandaru, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Materials Science, UC San Diego Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Reverse Chemical Genetics Approaches to Drug Discovery
Maurizzio Pellechia, Ph.D., Professor, Infectious Diseases, Burnham Institute for Medical Research

Quantum Dots: New Tools for Biological Research
Martin Hetzer, Ph.D., Hearst Endowment Assistant Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Science of Anxiety
Nadar Amir, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, San Diego State University

Protein Networks in Cancer
Trey Ideker, Ph.D., Department of Bioengineering, UC San Diego

A BioScience Smorgasbord: Research at SDSU and Future Possibilities
Roberta A. Gottlieb, M.D., Director, BioScience Center, San Diego State University

Genomic Advances on a Grand Scale: New Energy Sources
J. Craig Venter, Ph.D. , Founder, Chairman, President, J. Craig Venter Institute; X Synthetic Genomics; 2008 Medal…

Can Plankton Tell Us When the Ocean is Sick?
David Lapota, Ph.D., SPAWAR/San Diego and Bryan Bjorndal, President and CEO, Assure Controls

Climate Change, Renewable Energy and the Promise of Biotechnology
Aristides A. N. Patrinos, Ph.D., President, Synthetic Genomics

Design of Green Buildings
Paul F. Linden, Ph.D., Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UC San Diego

From Algae to Bio-Engery: Concepts for Use, Scale Up and Commercialization
Greg Mitchell, Ph.D., Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego

Visual Analytics: The Power of Pixels in the Pursuit of the Big Picture
Falko Kuester, Ph.D., CalIT2, UC San Diego

New Drug Treatments and the Future of Stem Cells for the Aging Brain and Alzheimer’s Disease
Stuart A. Lipton, M.D., Ph.D., Professor and Director, Del E. Webb Center for Neuroscience and Aging, Research Burnham Institute for Medical Research

How Computers are Changing Biology and Medicine - What are the Opportunities?
Phil Bourne, Ph.D., Professor, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Co-director, Protein Data Bank, UC San Diego

Cross-Talk Between Stem Cells and the Neurodegenerative Environment
Evan Snyder, Ph.D., Professor and Director, Stem Cell and Regeneration Program, Burnham Institute for Medical Research

Protecting our Infrastructure against Terrorist Attacks
Frieder Seible, Ph.D., Dean, Jacobs School of Engineering, UC San Diego

Cheating Death: Novel Targeted Therapies for Controlling Cell Life and Death
John C. Reed, MD, Ph.D., President & CEO, Burnham Institute for Medical Research

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