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Advocating for the Future
ADAPTING TO CLIMATE CHANGE:
IMPROVING CONNECTIONS BETWEEN
SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
Organized by Amy Snover and Heidi Roop,
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
ANIMAL CONSERVATION IN AFRICA:
THE INTERSECTION OF SCIENCE AND
SOCIETY
Organized by Bryan Ray and Sacha Vignieri,
AAAS, Washington, DC
CULTURAL CONNECTIONS:
COMMUNICATING SCIENCE TO
COMMUNITIES AND CONGRESS
Organized by Bryn Nelson, Seattle, WA
DETECTING, COMBATING,
AND IDENTIFYING DIS AND
MISFINFORMATION
Organized by Nadya Bliss, Arizona State
University, Tempe, AZ
LEARNING THROUGH CITIZEN SCIENCE:
ENHANCING OPPORTUNITIES BY
DESIGN
Organized by Lekelia Jenkins, Arizona State
University, Tempe, AZ
LOCAL SOLUTIONS TO GLOBAL
CHALLENGES: A COMMUNITYFBASED
APPROACH TO INNOVATION
Organized by Karel Haegeman, European
Commission Joint Research Centre, Sevilla,
Spain
PUBLIC TRUST IN SCIENCE: STRENGTH
AND SKEPTICISM
OrganizedbyCaryFunk,PewResearch
Center, Washington, DC
SAVING SCIENCE JOURNALISM:
ACTIONS FOR SCIENCE
COMMUNICATION RESEARCHERS
Organized by Sue Ellen McCann, KQED, Inc.,
San Francisco, CA; Asheley Landrum, Texas
Tech University, Lubbock, TX
SCIENCE ADVOCACY: LOBBYING FOR
EVIDENCE
Organized by Sandra D. Mitchell, University of
Pittsburgh, PA
SCIENCE COMMUNICATION
STRATEGIES FOR BUILDING
RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE PUBLIC
Organized by Elizabeth A. McCullough,
PaciUc Science Center, Seattle, WA
SCIENCE IS POLITICAL, NOT PARTISAN:
BEST PRACTICES FOR SCIENCE POLICY
A DVO CAT ES
Organized by Holly Mayton, National Science
Policy Network, Virginia Beach, VA
THE REPRODUCIBILITY REVOLUTION:
IMPACTS ON SCIENCE, JOURNALISM,
AND SOCIETY
Organized by Simine Vazire, University of
California, Davis, CA
WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP IN THE GLOBAL
SCIENCE SYSTEM
Organized by Roseanne Diab, GenderInSITE,
Trieste, Italy
Biomedical Futures
AVERTING CATASTROPHIC BIOLOGICAL
INCIDENTS IN THE FUTURE
Organized by Kristin Omberg and Karen
Taylor, PaciUc Northwest National
Laboratory, Richland, WA
BIOINFORMATICS AND AI: INNOVATIVE
APPROACHES TO RESEARCH AND DATA
STORAGE
Organized by Paul Whaley, Lancaster
University, United Kingdom
THE BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING
REVOLUTION: STRATEGIES FOR A
SUSTAINABLE SCALEFUP
Organized by Philip Shapira, Georgia Institute
of Technology, Atlanta, GA; Carrie Cizauskas,
Zymergen Inc., Emeryville, CA
BIOLOGICAL NORMALCY AND HUMAN
VARIATION: THREE CASE STUDIES
Organized by Andrea Wiley, Indiana
University, Bloomington, IN
DYNAMIC RNA MODIFICATIONS: ROLES
IN DISEASE AND ENVIRONMENTAL
RESPONSE
Organized by Frederick Tyson, National
Institute of Environmental Health Sciences,
Durham, NC
EQUITY IN GENOMIC MEDICINE: GIVING
VOICE TO INDIGENOUS GENETIC
VARIATION
Organized by Wyeth Wasserman, University
of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
GREEN TOXICOLOGY
Organized by Alexandra Maertens and
Thomas Hartung, Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, MD
HUMAN CELL ATLAS: TRANSFORMING
BIOLOGY AND HEALTHCARE
Organized by Emily Mobley, Wellcome Sanger
Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom
LIVING DONORS: HOW VOLUNTEERS
GIVE TISSUES AND TIME TO ADVANCE
SCIENCE
Organized by Kathy Richmond, The Paul G.
Allen Frontiers Group, Seattle, WA; Jennifer
Pawlosky, Allen Institute, Seattle, WA
MOLECULAR PROBES AND IMAGING:
EXPLORING THE INNER UNIVERSE
Organized by Jonathan Bagger and Paul
SchaWer, TRIUMF, Vancouver, Canada
ORAL CANCER: USING THE HPV
VACCINE FOR PREVENTION
Organized by Jacques E. Nor, University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
PARTICLE THERAPY: PERSPECTIVES
FROM PHYSICS, MEDICINE, AND
ECONOMICS
Organized by Charles Clark, Joint Quantum
Institute, Gaithersburg, MD; Anice Anderson,
Private Engineering Consulting, Carmel, IN
PHARMACEUTICAL MANUFACTURING:
SUSTAINABLE INNOVATIONS TO
PRODUCE ZERO WASTE
Organized by Donna Huryn, University of
Pittsburgh, PA; William Beck, University of
Illinois, Chicago, IL
SEQUENCING THE GENOMES OF LIFE:
PROTECTING BIODIVERSITY AND
SUSTAINING SOCIETY
Organized by Emily Mobley, Wellcome Sanger
Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom
SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY: DIGITAL DESIGN
OF LIVING SYSTEMS
Organized by Juerg Brunnschweiler and
Marianne Lucien, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY AND THE NEXTF
GENERATION BIOECONOMY
Organized by Emily Aurand, Engineering
Biology Research Consortium, Emeryville, CA
Climate Futures
AI FOR CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION
Organized by So-Min Cheong, University of
Kansas, Lawrence, KS
BOUNDARY SPANNING:
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND
DECISIONFMAKING
Organized by Kei Koizumi, Shanghai, China
CARBON ECONOMY: CONSIDERATIONS
FOR THE UNITED STATES AND PACIFIC
RIM
Organized by Naoki Saito, RIKEN,
Yokohama, Japan; Steven Collins,
University of Washington, Bothell, WA
CHINA’S ROAD TOWARDS ECOLOGICAL
CIVILIZATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL
SUSTAINABILITY
Organized by Fahu Chen, Chinese Academy
of Sciences, Beijing, China
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