Speakers

Keynote Speaker
University of Wisconsin

Speakers
Prof. Julie S. Biteen, University of Michigan

Prof. Nam-Joon Cho, Nanyang Technological University

Dr. Jonathan Jacobs, UCLA Digestive Diseases Jacobs Laboratory

Prof. Andrea Kasko, CNSI, UCLA

Prof. Ali Khademhosseini, Harvard Medical School & ACS Nano

Prof. Huiying Li, Li Lab, UCLA

Prof. Jeff Miller, CNSI Director, UCLA

Dr. Alireza Moshaverinia, UCLA School of Dentistry


Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Parak, Philipps-Universität Marburg and CIC biomaGUNE & ACS Nano


Dr. Amalio Telenti, Chief Scientific Officer, Human Longevity 

Dr. Emma Taylor, CEO, Naked Biome 

Prof. Paul Weiss, UCLA & Editor-in-Chief, ACS Nano

Prof. Jian Xu, Qingdao Institute of BioEnergy and Bioprocess Technology (QIBEBT), Chinese Academy of Sciences



Program: March 30, 2017

Chairs: 
Prof. Julie S. Biteen, University of Michigan
Prof. Aydogan Ozcan, UCLA
Prof. Ali Khademhosseini, Harvard Medical School & ACS Nano

8:30 am
Welcome & Introductions: Paul Weiss, UCLA & Editor-in-Chief, ACS Nano

9:00 am - 10:00 am
Jo Handelsman
, University of Wisconsin
Keynote: From the White House to the Lab: The Intersection of Precision Medicine and the Microbiome

10:00 am – 10:45 am 
Jeff Miller, CNSI Director, UCLA
Engineering Contractile Nanotubes for Precision Antibiotics

10:45 am – 11:00 am Coffee Break

11:00 am – 11:30 am
Huiying Li, Li Lab, UCLA
Microbiome and Metabolome Profiles Associated with HPV 16 Persistence and Clearance
 
11:30 am – 12:00 pm 
Alireza Moshaverinia, UCLA School of Dentistry
Dental-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells-Based Regenerative Treatment of Periodontitis and Peri-Implantitis
 
12:00 am – 12:30 pm 
Jonathan Jacobs, UCLA Digestive Diseases Jacobs Laboratory
Defining a Pre-Disease Microbial Risk State for Inflammatory Bowel Disease

12:30 pm – 2:00 pm Lunch

2:00 pm – 2:45 pm 
Emma Taylor, CEO, Naked Biome
From Bug to Bedside: Translating the Human Microbiome Project

2:45 pm – 3:15 pm
Andrea Kasko, CNSI, UCLA 
Designing Hybrid Antibiotic Peptide Conjugates to Cross Bacterial Membranes

3:15 pm – 3:30  pm  Coffee Break

3:30 pm – 4:00 pm 
Jian Xu, Qingdao Institute of BioEnergy and Bioprocess Technology (QIBEBT), Chinese Academy of Sciences
Ramanome and Meta-Ramanome: A New Type of Big-Data for Label-Free Functional Imaging of Microbiomes at Single-Cell Resolution 

4:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Nam-Joon Cho, Nanyang Technological University Singapore
Engineering Approaches to Combat Emerging Viral Pathogens 

4:30 pm – 5:15 pm 
Amalio Telenti, Chief Scientific Officer, Human Longevity
The Human Virome and the Dark Matter of the Human Genome

5:15 pm – 5:20 pm Closing Remarks

5:30 pm Reception


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This conference has received support from the NIH NCATS UCLA CTSI Grant Number UL1TR0001881.