2025 Agenda

16th Annual GoldLab Symposium – May 15th & 16th, 2025

In-person and live streamed on our website.

Muenzinger Auditorium
1905 Colorado Ave
Boulder, CO 80309 (Map)

Confirmed Speakers

• Gil Hedley, PhD – Producer of The Integral Anatomy Series, The Anatomy from A to Z Project, and The Nerve Project.
• Chris Janjic & Brandon Smith – Chris is a cinematographer specializing in non-fiction storytelling. Brandon is the Co-Founder and Senior Advisor to Executive Leadership at FFRP.
• Hansilla Alaigh – Founder of Global Action Alliance, 14 years in biotech and pharmaceutical companies.
• James Fraser – Chair of the Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, his Ph.D. work focused on the relationship between protein conformational dynamics and enzymatic catalysis.
• Taylor White Moffit – Licensed Clinical Social Worker, 30+ year psychotherapist turned coach as well as a yoga, mindfulness, and leadership facilitator.
• Sandeep Patel – Entrepreneur with experience advancing high-impact science, building new products, and launching new programs and initiatives within large public and private organizations. Past work includes leading a biosecurity R&D funding unit at BARDA.
• Jim Trimmer – Distinguished Professor Emeritus, focusing on protein function, biochemical pathways, and networks of protein-protein interactions regulating intra- and inter-cellular signaling in mammalian neurons.
• Nelson Trujillo – Board certified in cardiovascular medicine, nuclear medicine, and internal medicine.
• Jay Wellons, MD, MSPH – Holds the Cal Turner Chair of Pediatric Neurosurgery and is the Chief of the Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery and Vice Chair of the Department of Neurosurgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC). He is a Professor in the Departments of Neurological Surgery, Pediatrics, Plastic Surgery, and Radiology.
• Nebojsa Janjic – Co-founder, CEO, and President of Creston, Inc, Ph.D. in Physical Organic Chemistry, Postdoctoral training at the Scripps Research Institute as a Cancer Research Institute Fellow.
• Art Krieg – Adjunct Professor in the UMass Chan Medical School RNA Therapeutics Institute and serves on the scientific advisory boards of several companies developing oligonucleotide therapeutics. He has published more than 250 scientific papers and is an inventor on over 50 issued US patents covering oligonucleotide technologies.
• Krystal Tsosie – A member of the Navajo Nation, cofounded the Native BioData Consortium. Leads the Tsosie Lab for Indigenous Genomic Data Equity and Justice at ASU.
• Noemie Elhadad – American data scientist who is an associate professor of biomedical informatics at the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. As of 2022, she serves as the chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics. Her research considers machine learning in bioinformatics, natural language processing, and medicine.