Main Program
2:00 pm Doors open—all SIU participants present
2:30 pm Welcome (SIU System President Kevin Dorsey)
2:40 pm Keynote Speaker (Sara Robinson, Google)–
“Transforming Healthcare with Machine Learning”
Distinguished Dignitary (if available)
3:20 pm Remarks from SIUE Chancellor Randall Pembrook
3:25 pm Speed pitches (3-5 min.) – 6 pitches, 2 from each campus
SIUE:
Mohammad Shavezipur-“Pathogen Transport Modelled Biomimetic Sensor,
Sensing Method, and Produce Sanitization”
Kenneth Witt-“Somatostatin Receptor Type 4 Agonist Compounds for
Alzheimer’s Disease”
SIUC:
Khalid Meksem-“Soybean Resistant to Cyst Nematodes”
Boyd Goodson-“Enhanced Catalysts for NMR/MRI Enhancement via
SABRE (Signal Amplification by Reversible Exchange)”
SOM:
Keith Gagnon-“Tuning CRISPR/Cas9 Activity with Chemically
Modified Nucleotide Substitutions”
Debashree Mukherjea-“Treatment and Restoration of Hearing Loss”
3:55 pm Research Interchange Summary (Industry and Academic Partnering
Initiative)–presented by Jay De Long, Director
4:15 pm Remarks from SIUC Chancellor John Dunn
4:20 pm Networking & refreshments (booth activities & heavy hors d’oeuvres)
Evening Program
5:00 pm Start of Post Program (Moderated by SOM Dean Dr. Jerry Kruse with opening
remarks by SIUC College of Business Dean Terry Clark; closing remarks
by SIUE School of Business Dean Timothy Schoenecker)
5:30 pm Panel Program – “Cannabis: The Business and Health Considerations in Illinois”
Panel Participants:
Mitch Meyers (Co-Owner & Partner of Nature’s Care Company, a Chicago-based
dispensary)
Dina Rollman (SVP of Government & Regulatory Affairs at Green Thumb
Industries)
Dale Buck Hales (Professor and Chair, Department of Physiology &
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)
Aldwin Anterola (Associate Professor of Plant Biology)
6:30 pm Networking & refreshments (heavy hors d’oeuvres)
8:00 pm Close