Past Annual Symposia

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Annual Symposium
9:00 AM to 5:00 PM | May 12, 2026

Saltiel Life Sciences Symposium 2026: Decoding GLP-1s

Amber Alhadeff, Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Daniel Drucker, M.D.
University of Toronto
Timo Müller, Ph.D.
Hemoltz Center Munich
Martin Myers, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Michigan Medical School
Tune Pers, Ph.D.
Novo Nordisk Center for Basic Metabolic Research
Randy Seeley, Ph.D.
University of Michigan Medical School
Kevin Williams, Ph.D.
UT Southwestern Medical Center
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Annual Symposium
9:00 AM to 5:00 PM | May 29, 2025

Saltiel Life Sciences Symposium 2025: Building the Next-Generation Genetic Toolkit

Omar Abudayyeh, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School; Investigator, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Clifford P. Brangwynne, Ph.D.
Director of the Omenn-Darling Bioengineering Institute, June K. Wu ’92 Professor in Engineering, Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University; Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
Justin Crocker, Ph.D.
Group Leader, European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Danwei Huangfu, Ph.D.
Member, Developmental Biology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute; Professor, Cell and Developmental Biology Program, Weill Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Cornell University
Pulin Li, Ph.D.
Eugene Bell Career Development Professor of Tissue Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Core Member, Whitehead Institute
Michael Lin, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Neurobiology and Bioengineering, Stanford University
Changyang Linghu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology and Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan
Leonardo Morsut, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, University of Southern California
James Nuñez, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Jared Toettcher, Ph.D.
Deputy Director of the Omenn-Darling Bioengineering Institute, Associate Professor of Molecular Biology and Bioengineering, Princeton University
Li Ye, Ph.D.
Abide-Vividion Chair in Chemistry and Chemical Biology and Professor of Neuroscience, Scripps Research; Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
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Annual Symposium
9:00 AM to 4:40 PM | May 8, 2023

Saltiel Life Sciences Symposium 2023: Aging and Age-Related Diseases

Johan Auwerx, M.D., Ph.D.
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Nir Barzilai, M.D.
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Rochelle Buffenstein, Ph.D.
University of Illinois at Chicago
Claude Desplan, D.Sc., Ph.D.
New York University
Andrew Dillin, Ph.D.
Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley,
Linda Partridge, D.Phil.
University College London
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Annual Symposium
8:45 AM to 4:30 PM | May 13, 2022

Saltiel Life Sciences Symposium 2022: Viral Pathogens — Us vs. Them

Pamela Bjorkman, Ph.D.
California Institute of Technology
Deborah Fuller, Ph.D.
University of Washington
Sun Hur, Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital
Harmit Malik, Ph.D.
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Stacey Schultz-Cherry, Ph.D.
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Chris Sullivan, Ph.D.
University of Texas at Austin
2020 Saltiel Life Sciences Symposium, September 30
Annual Symposium
9:00 AM to 12:15 PM | September 30, 2020

Saltiel Life Sciences Symposium 2020: Broadening the Biosciences

Flaminia Catteruccia, Ph.D.
Harvard University
Timothy James, Ph.D.
University of Michigan
Cora A. MacAlister, Ph.D.
University of Michigan
Shai Revzen, Ph.D.
University of Michigan
Raymond St. Leger, Ph.D.
University of Maryland
Nicholas Teets, Ph.D.
University of Kentucky
Elizabeth Tibbetts, Ph.D.
University of Michigan
Sarah Tishkoff, Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania
Barry A. Trimmer, Ph.D.
Tufts University
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Annual Symposium
8:45 AM to 4:15 PM | September 25, 2019

Saltiel Life Sciences Symposium 2019: Protein Engineering and Biological Design

James A. Wells, Ph.D.
University of California, San Francisco
Alice Y. Ting, Ph.D.
Stanford University
Dan Tawfik, Ph.D.
Weizmann Institute of Science
Huimin Zhao, Ph.D.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Amy E. Keating, Ph.D.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Donald Hilvert, Ph.D.
ETH Zürich
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Annual Symposium
8:45 AM to 4:15 PM | September 5, 2018

Saltiel Life Sciences Symposium 2018: The Power of One

Xiaoliang Sunney Xie, Ph.D.
Peking University
Alexandra-Chloé Villani, Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School
Z. Josh Huang, Ph.D.
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Long Cai, Ph.D.
California Institute of Technology
Nir Yosef, Ph.D.
University of California, Berkeley
Miriam Merad, M.D., Ph.D.
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York
Thank you to this year's external sponsors: 10x Genomics, Illumina and RareCyte
Symposium 2017
Annual Symposium
8:30 AM to 5:00 PM | September 15, 2017

Saltiel Life Sciences Symposium 2017: Game Changers

Karl Deisseroth, M.D., Ph.D.
Stanford University & Howard Hughes Medical Institute
David R. Walt, Ph.D.
Wyss Institute at Harvard University, Harvard Medical School & Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Philipp Keller, Ph.D.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Research Campus
Daniela Nicastro, Ph.D.
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
George Church, Ph.D.
Wyss Institute at Harvard University, Harvard Medical School, MIT
Symposium 2016
Annual Symposium
8:30 AM to 5:00 PM | May 10, 2016

Saltiel Life Sciences Symposium 2016: Rise of the Cellular Machines

Suzanne Walker, Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School
André Hoelz, Ph.D.
California Institute of Technology
Eric Gouaux, Ph.D.
Oregon Health and Science University and Howard Hughes Medical Institute
R. Kiplin Guy, Ph.D.
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Michelle Chang
University of California, Berkeley
Sarah O'Connor, Ph.D.
John Innes Centre, U.K.
Philip Cole, M.D., Ph.D.
Johns Hopkins University
Symposium 2015
Annual Symposium
8:30 AM to 5:00 PM | May 21, 2015

2015 Annual LSI Symposium: Defense Mechanisms in Life

Ruslan Medzhitov, Ph.D.
Yale School of Medicine and Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Luciano Marraffini, Ph.D.
Rockefeller University
Phillip D. Zamore, Ph.D.
University of Massachusetts Medical School and Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Yasmine Belkaid, Ph.D.
National Institutes of Health
Gregory F. Sonnenberg, Ph.D.
Weill Cornell Medical College
Miriam Merad, M.D., Ph.D.
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Marco Colonna, M.D.
Washington University School of Medicine
Symposium 2014
Annual Symposium
8:30 AM | May 14, 2014 to 1:00 PM | May 15

2014 Annual LSI Symposium: Victors for Discovery

Jack Dixon, Ph.D.
University of California, San Diego
Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D.
National Institutes of Health
Tachi Yamada, M.D.
Takeda Pharmaceuticals
Annual Symposium
9:00 AM to 5:00 PM | June 6, 2013

2013 Annual LSI Symposium: Exploring Epigenetics & RNA

Gary Ruvkun, Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School
Scott Kennedy, Ph.D.
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Alexei Aravin, Ph.D.
California Institute of Technology
Danesh Moazed, Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School and Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Dinshaw Patel Ph.D.
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Barbara Panning
University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine
Arul Chinnaiyan, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Michigan and Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Annual Symposium
9:00 AM to 5:00 PM | May 24, 2012

2012 Annual LSI Symposium: Development and Diseases of the Nervous System

Susan Lindquist, Ph.D.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Yishi Jin, Ph.D.
University of California, San Diego and Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Larry Zipursky, Ph.D.
University of California, Los Angeles and Howard Hughes Medical Institute
David Julius, Ph.D.
University of California, San Francisco
Luis F. Parada, Ph.D.
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Ted M. Dawson, M.D., Ph.D.
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Lennart Mucke, M.D.
University of California, San Francisco
Annual Symposium
9:00 AM to 4:30 PM | May 5, 2011

2011 Annual LSI Symposium: Autophagy in Health & Disease

Daniel J. Klionsky, Ph.D.
U-M Life Sciences Institute
Moboru Mizushima, M.D., Ph.D.
Tokyo Medical and Dental University
Vojo Deretic, Ph.D.
University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center
David C. Rubinsztein, Ph.D.
University of Cambridge
Ana Maria Cuervo, M.D., Ph.D.
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Beth Levine, M.D.
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Annual Symposium
9:00 AM to 5:00 PM | June 2, 2010

2010 Annual LSI Symposium: Macromolecular Complexes in Cell Biology

Gerald Crabtree, Ph.D.
Stanford University
Peter Novic, Ph.D.
University of California, San Diego
Yang Shi, Ph.D.
Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School
Jennifer A. Doudna, Ph.D.
University of California, Berkeley
Stephen C. Harrison, Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School
Wendell Lim, Ph.D.
University of California, San Francisco
Richard L. Huganir, Ph.D.
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
This is an internal LSI event.
Annual Symposium
9:00 AM to 4:30 PM | April 28, 2009

2009 Annual LSI Symposium: Evolutionary Biology

Alan Walker, Ph.D.
Pennsylvania State University
Antonis Rokas, Ph.D.
Vanderbilt University
John Doebley, Ph.D.
University of Wisconsin-Madison
D. Graham Burnett, Ph.D.
Princeton University
Joan Strassmann, Ph.D.
Rice University
David Queller, Ph.D.
Rice University
Daniel Weinreich, Ph.D.
Brown University
Annual Symposium
9:00 AM to 4:00 PM | May 8, 2008

2008 Annual LSI Symposium: Focus on Chemical Biology

Stuart Schreiber, Ph.D.
Broad Institute and Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Alanna Schepartz, Ph.D.
Yale University
Chaitan Khosla, Ph.D.
Stanford University
Joseph Noel, Ph.D.
Salk Institute and Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Jin Zhang, Ph.D.
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Annual Symposium
9:00 AM to 4:00 PM | May 9, 2007

2007 Annual LSI Symposium: Frontiers in Stem Cell Biology

Stuart H. Orkin, M.D.
Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Howard Hughes Medical Institute
David T. Scadden, M.D.
Harvard Stem Cell Institute and Massachusetts General Hospital
Judith Kimble, Ph.D.
University of Wisconsin and Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Amy Wagers, Ph.D.
Harvard Stem Cell Institute and Harvard Medical School
Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Utah Medical School
Robert Lanza, M.D.
Advanced Cell Technology and Wake Forrest University School of Medicine
Annual Symposium
9:00 AM to 5:00 PM | May 11, 2006

2006 Annual LSI Symposium: Molecular Insights into Metabolic Disease

Bruce M. Spiegelman, Ph.D.
Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School
Jeffrey E. Pessin, Ph.D.
State University of New York-Stony Brook
Michael N. Hall, Ph.D.
University of Basel, Switzerland
Cynthia Kenyon, Ph.D.
University of California, San Francisco
Jeffrey S. Flier, M.D.
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School
Barbara B. Kahn, M.D.
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Annual Symposium
9:00 AM to 5:00 PM | May 12, 2005

2005 Annual LSI Symposium: Cancer Insights

Charles Sherr, M.D., Ph.D.
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Allan Balmain, Ph.D.
University of California
A. Thomas Look, M.D.
Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School
Barbara Weber, M.D.
GlaxoSmithKline
Todd Golub, M.D.
Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School and Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Renata Pasqualini, Ph.D.
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Charles Sawyers, M.D.
Annual Symposium
9:00 AM to 5:00 PM | May 13, 2004

2004 Annual LSI Symposium: Exploring the Complexity of Life

Jack E. Dixon, Ph.D.
University of California, San Diego
Joseph Schlessinger, PH.D.
Yale University School of Medicine
Peter Agre, M.D.
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Jennifer A. Doudna, Ph.D.
University of California, Berkeley and Howard Hughes Medical Instititute
Arthur L. Horwich, M.D.
Yale University School of Medicine and Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Nancy Hopkins, Ph.D.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Randy Schekman, Ph.D.
University of California, Berkeley and Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Annual Symposium
9:00 AM to 5:00 PM | May 13, 2003

2003 Annual LSI Symposium: Genetic Insights into Biology and Disease

Jeffrey Friedman, M.D., Ph.D.
Rockefeller University and Howard Hughes Medical Investigator
Helen Hobbs, M.D.
University of Texas Southwestern Medical School and Howard Hughes Medical Institute
David Ginsburg, M.D.
University of Michigan and Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Joseph Nadeau, Ph.D.
Case Western Reserve University
Min Han
University of Colorado and Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Annual Symposium
9:00 AM to 5:00 PM | May 9, 2002

2002 Annual LSI Symposium: The Structural Biology of Cell Signaling

John Kuriyan, Ph.D.
University of California, Berkeley and Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Yigong Shi, Ph.D.
Princeton University
Johnathan Goldberg, Ph.D.
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Harvey Lodish, Ph.D.
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Zhaohui Xu, Ph.D.
University of Michigan
Roderick MacKinnon, M.D.
Rockefeller University and Howard Hughes Medical Institute