All Spotlight Sessions will take place in Alumni Hall. Unless indicated otherwise, the presenters are affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh.
Thursday, 15 October
9:00 a.m.
Spotlight Session 1—What’s Up with Those Little RNAs?
Spotlight Session 2—Designing and Building Electronic Materials from the Ground Up
Spotlight Session 3—Applied Imaging—From Little to Large, From Slow to Super Fast
12:30 p.m.
Science at Work 1—The Genographic Project—Exploring the Human Family Tree
1:00 p.m.
Science at Work 2—Service Science—Universities Collaborating on Essential New Skills and Research
Science at Work 3—The Essentials of Due Diligence and Commercialization
2:00 p.m.
Spotlight Session 4—Smart Structures and Adaptive Systems
Spotlight Session 5—Evolution in Daily Life (200 Years after Darwin's Birth)
Spotlight Session 6—Matrix-Induced Control of Growth and Differentiation
Friday, 16 October
9:00 a.m.
Spotlight Session 7—Behavioral Wiring—How Neural Circuits Develop and How They Generate Behavior
Spotlight Session 8—Molecular and Genetic Control of Animal Development
Spotlight Session 9—Bad Bugs—Diseases You Really, Really Don’t Want To Get
1:00 p.m.
Science at Work 4—Inside Intel: Automating Causal Discovery in Artificial Intelligence and Science
Science at Work 5—Modern Search and Discovery of Scientific Information
2:00 p.m.
Spotlight Session 10—Innate Immune Sensing and Response
Spotlight Session 11—The Epigenome—Was Lamarck Right?
Spotlight Session 12—Single Molecule Techniques