Inaugural Allen Distinguished Investigator Life Science Symposium

Researchers to showcase groundbreaking work in: Cellular decision-making, human accelerated regions, medical research and lineage barcodes

The Allen Distinguished Investigator program supports high-risk, high-reward ideas in science. Award recipients typically receive nearly $1 million or more for three years of research. Without the ADI program, many of these innovative research projects would go unfunded.

Monday, February 9th, Allen Distinguished Investigator awardees will gather in La Jolla, California at the Scripps Seaside Forum for an all-day symposium. It's a unique opportunity to hear how these researchers are breaking new ground and making an impact on science today and in the future.

Presentations will feature various key award focus areas.

Cellular Decision-Making:

Thierry Emonet, Yale University; Thomas Shimizu, FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics; Steven Zucker, Yale University: Crowd Computing with Bacteria: Balancing Phenotypic Diversity and Coordinated Behavior.

Hana El-Samad, University of California, San Francisco: Untangling the Wires: An Integrated Framework for Probing Signal Encoding and Decoding in Cellular Circuits.

Jeff Gore, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Microbial Studies of Cellular Decision-making: Game Theory and the Evolutionary Origins of Cooperation.

Suckjoon Jun, University of California, San Diego: Cell-Size Control and its Evolution at the Single-Cell Level.

Human Accelerated Regions:

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Inaugural Allen Distinguished Investigator Life Science Symposium