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2022 Agenda


The GoldLab Symposium comes to you from beautiful Boulder, CO. All times are listed are in Mountain Time.

May 19
Day 1 – Knowledge and Values: Medicine and Public Health
9:00-9:15am Larry Gold, PhD
Welcome
Session 1 – Fairness in the Face of Biology
9:15-10am Kathryn Paige Harden, PhD
Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
10-10:45am Tobias Kollmann, MD, PhD
Why Do Newborns Die and What Can We Do About It? Shift Focus From Pathogen to Host
10:45-11:00am Break
Session 2 – Novel Approaches to Treatment of Disease
11-11:45am Scott MacDonnell, PhD
Exploring Cardiovascular Physiology to Uncover Novel Therapeutic Strategies Using Human Inducible Pluripotent Stem Cell Derived Cardiomyocytes and Human Engineered Cardiac Tissues
11:45-12:30pm Alan Russell, PhD
Muscle Adaptation Gone Wrong – How Duchenne and Becker Muscular Dystrophy Cause Amplified Muscle Damage Revealing a Novel Therapeutic Target
12:30-1:30pm Lunch
Session 3 – Fairness in the Face of Climate Change
1:30-2:15pm Ted Scambos, PhD
Antarctica and Sea Level Rise: We’re In This Boat Together
2:15-3pm Leilani Raashida Henry, MA
Navigating in the White World at the Bottom of the Earth
3-3:15pm Break
Session 4 – Fairness in the Face of Culture
3:15-4:00pm James Robinson, PhD, MPH
Pricing Drugs for Innovation and Affordability
4-4:45pm Tim Snyder, PhD
Reflections on Health and Freedom
4:45-5pm Closing Remarks
May 20
Day 2 – Knowledge and Values: Humans and Computers
9:00-9:15am Larry Hunter, PhD
Introduction
Session 5 – Untangling the Tangles: When Your Brain Fails You
9:15-10am Roy Parker, PhD
RNA Abnormalities in Human Diseases and How They Might Be Corrected
10-10:45am David Eisenberg, DPhil
Structure-based Discovery of Small Molecules that Disaggregate Tau Fibrils from Alzheimer’s Disease
10:45-11am Break
Session 6 – The Dichotomy of Knowing and Unknowing Within the Human/AI Partnership
11-11:45am Melissa Haendel, PhD
If We Cannot Count Rare Disease Patients, They Will Not Count
11:45am-1pm Krzysztof Fidelis, PhD
The Theoretical Acceleration in Identification of Protein Structures
1-2pm Lunch
Session 7 – Shared Values Across the Spectrum of Human and Computer Interaction
2-2:45pm Rob Reich, PhD
Carbon Versus Silicon: Professional Ethics
2:45-3:30pm Estelle Smith, PhD
The Calamity Prayer: Computational Spiritual Support as a Whole-Human Centered Approach to Healing
3:30-4:30pm David Fajgenbaum, MD, MBA
Chasing My Cure: Lessons Learned as a Physician-Researcher-Patient-Advocate
4:30-4:45pm Closing Remarks