WID Symposium

August 27, 2020

The Third Annual WID Symposium — and first virtual WID Symposium — features lightning talks, a poster session, and community building for WIDites. This event is integral to being a WIDite, so please make your attendance a top priority and encourage your colleagues to do the same.

Note that you will not be able to access symposium sessions if you have not RSVP’d for the event. Log in with your UW Google Suite credentials in order to complete this form. If you are logged into another Google account, you will be unable to access the form.

Virtual Tools – This year’s symposium will use a variety of virtual meeting tools; you may wish to make yourself familiar with these tools ahead of the symposium:

Zoom – Plenary sessions and lightning talks will take place within Zoom’s virtual meeting software.
Congregate – Break room discussions, the closing activity, and the poster session will take place in Congregate’s online meeting space.
Slack – The #widsymposium channel on WID’s Slack will be available throughout the symposium. Click here to join.
Google Docs – Some activities will use Google Docs to facilitate discussion and collect ideas.

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SYMposium Schedule:

WIDites are expected to attend the program in its entirety.

10:00 am CDT	Welcome & WID Updates WID Director Jo Handelsman Zoom: WID Symposium
10:45	Lightning Talks: Session I Zoom: WID SymposiumEach speaker will have three minutes to talk about their group’s work or a particular project in the most compelling and informative way possible. After three minutes, the moderator will pose one question from the chat for the speaker to answer. Then the next talk will begin. Save the rest of your questions for the break room, chat, or email follow-up. Melissa Schoenlein Graduate Student, Schloss Visual Reasoning Lab Visual communication in science and society Michael Ferris Professor, Computer Sciences Optimization methods and data modeling for large scale problems in science, engineering and economics Katie Mueller Graduate Student, Saha Human Stem Cell Engineering Lab Rapid Nonviral Generation of Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cells Using CRISPR-Cas9 Editing Rui Chen Graduate Student, Luedtke Group Stochastic Programming Silvia Di Gregorio Graduate Student, Del Pia Research Group Integer optimization Xuehua Zhong Associate Professor, Genetics Epigenetic regulation of plant traits and environmental adaptation
11:15	Poster Session Congregate: WID Symposium Poster Session
12:30 pm	Break (Lunch) Congregate: WID Symposium Break Room (optional discussion space)
1:15	Lightning Talks: Session II Zoom: WID Symposium Zhen Peng Postdoctoral Associate, Baum Lab Theoretical research on the emergence of life-like systems from chemical reaction networks Blake Mason Graduate Student, Nowak Research Group Machine learning techniques, such as metric learning, to analyze human generated data Claudia Solís-Lemus Assistant Professor, Plant Pathology Development of statistical models to answer biological questions Gavin Knight Postdoctoral Associate, Ashton Group Engineering organotypic 2D CNS tissues from human pluripotent stem cells Ross Tredinnick Systems Programmer, Ponto Lab and Virtual Environments Group Immersive visualization, 3D environment scanning, virtual reality research and development Coral Wille Postdoctoral Associate, Sridharan Lab Epigenetic barriers of reprogramming somatic cells to induced pluripotent stem cells
1:45	Break Congregate: WID Symposium Break Room
2:00	Lightning Talks: Session III Zoom: WID Symposium Jon Eckhardt Associate Professor, Business Entrepreneurship, including firm formation, venture finance, and university driven entrepreneurship Daniel Pimentel-Alarcón Assistant Professor, Biostatistics and Medical Informatics Yiming Qin Graduate Student, Denu Lab Mitochondrial protein acetylation Stefanie Glas Graduate Student, Turng Lab Mechanical Engineering with focus on Medical and Polymer Engineering Amanda Hurley Postdoctoral Associate, Handelsman Lab Genetic determinants of bacterial community stability and invasion
2:30	Break Congregate: WID Symposium Break Room
3:00	Lightning Talks: Session IV Zoom: WID Symposium Kirin Hong Graduate Student, Tang Lab Gut microbiome variation modulates the effects of dietary fiber on host metabolism Brittany Baur Postdoctoral Associate, Roy Lab Gene regulatory networks in development, disease and evolution John Yin Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering Viruses that make us sick Yuyuan Wang Postdoctoral Associate, Gong Lab Nano-Sized Carriers for Gene and Gene Editing Tool Delivery Jeff Linderoth Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering Discrete optimization Stephen Wright Professor, Computer Sciences Optimization algorithms with applications to data analysis and other areas
3:30	Closing & WID Trivia Congregate: WID Trivia
4:00	End of program