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    Tuesday, March 23, 2010

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Program Committee

Hal DeLong, Technology Business Advisor, von Liebig Center, UC San Diego
Tom Franklin, Partner, Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP
Mike Hird , Partner; Chair, Pillsbury, Winthrop, Shaw, Pittman LLP
Kenneth Jenkins, Special Counsel, Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP
Bethany Kraynack, Director, Education Programs, CONNECT
Stanley Maloy, Dean, College of Sciences, San Diego State University
Gail Naughton, Dean, College of Business Administration, San Diego State University
Anne O'Donnell, Director, Corporate Affiliates Program, Jacobs School of Engineering/CAP, Jacobs School of Engineering, UC San Diego
Mike Rondelli, Director, Technology Transfer & Commercialization, San Diego State University Research Foundation
Frieder Seible, Dean, Jacobs School of Engineering, Jacobs School of Engineering, UC San Diego
Leo Speigel Managing, Managing Partner, Mission Ventures
Julie Sullivan, Executive Vice President, Provost, University of San Diego

Frontiers in Science & Technology

The Frontiers in Science and Technology lecture brings together the business community with our leading scientists, engineers and researchers from San Diego’s 50 research 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 valuable new connections."

Bryan Bjorndal

President and CEO
Assure Controls, Inc.

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Past presenters include (chronologically):
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

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

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

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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Bethany Kraynack
Director, Education Programs
Frontiers in Science
& Technology
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