2021 Agenda

Confirmed Speakers:

• Molly Burhans – Founder and Executive Director of GoodLands. Her mission is to mobilize that Catholic Church to use her land for good by providing cartographic information, insights, and implementation tools. See bio
• Aaron Clauset, PhD – Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Colorado Boulder and in the BioFrontiers Institute; and, External Faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. See bio
• Robin Dowell, PhD – Associate Professor in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology at CU Boulder, where she is also a member of the BioFrontiers Institute. She holds advanced degrees in computer science and biomedical engineering. See bio
• Jesse Gillis, PhD – Associate Professor at the Stanley Institute for Cognitive Genomics at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. See bio
• Larry Hunter, PhD – Professor and Director of the Center for Computational Pharmacology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine; and, Director of the Computational Bioscience Program at the University of Colorado Boulder. See bio
• Nebojsa Janjic, PhD – Chief Science Officer at SomaLogic, Inc.; he has been working with aptamers for over two decades and has spent the past year studying COVID-19. See bio
• Leslie Leinwand, PhD – Chief Scientific Officer at BioFrontiers Institute, and Distinguished Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder; Professor, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; and, co-founder of Myogen, Inc., Hiberna, Inc., and MyoKardia, Inc. See bio
• Emmanuel Mignot, MD, PhD – Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University and Director of the Stanford Center for Sleep Sciences and Medicine. See bio
• Sendhil Mullainathan, PhD – Professor of Computation and Behavioral Science at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Co-author of Scarcity: Why Having too Little Means so Much. See bio
• Craig Mundie – Former Chief Research and Strategy Officer, Microsoft; served on National Security Telecommunications and Advisory Committee (NSTAC) under President Clinton, and President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) under President Obama. See bio
• Ken Sharpe, PhD – Emeritus William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Political Science at Swarthmore. Ken’s recent work has been exploring ways to improve health care through better design of health care institutions.  See bio
• Dan Shefet – Lawyer and founder of the Association for Accountability and Internet Democracy (AAID); author of the individual specialist report to UNESCO on ‘Online Radicalization’; and, expert with the Council of Europe on the Internet Ombudsman. See bio
• Roy Smythe, MD – Chief Executive Officer at SomaLogic, Inc.; originally trained as a thoracic surgeon and physician-scientist. See bio
• Jack Szostak, PhD – Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, Alexandra Rich Distinguished Investigator at Massachusetts General Hospital, and 2009 Nobel Prize laureate for Physiology or Medicine. See bio
• Rebecca Trumbull – Author of Little As You Were. Associate Director of Strategic Initiatives and External Relations at the Stanford Distinguished Careers Institute. See bio
• Eric Trumbull – Actor, singer, and stage director. Eric and his sister Rebecca will share the story of how they came to know a family secret after taking a commercial DNA test. See bio