2020 Saltiel Life Sciences Symposium: Broadening the Biosciences

The U-M Life Sciences Institute's 2020 LSI Saltiel Life Sciences Symposium examined innovative and creative research taking place to address scientific challenges across the biosciences. The two-day virtual event included a combination of full lectures and shorter talks from both external speakers and U-M investigators.

0:00 - Welcome and Introduction
9:55 - Sarah Tishkoff, "Genomic evolution and adaptation in Africa: Implications for health and disease"
1:07:12 - Barry A. Trimmer, "Towards living robots: Using biology to make better machines"
1:59:25 - Shai Revzen, "How the physics of slithering can teach multilegged robots to walk"
2:19:23 - Elizabeth Tibbetts, "What wasps can teach us about the evolution of animal minds"
3:07:00 - Day 2 Welcome
3:10:52 - Flaminia Catteruccia, "Breaking up Anopheles-Plasmodium interactions for malaria control"
4:08:09 - Nicholas Teets, "Cryopreservation of multicellular animals: Lessons from extreme insects"
4:29:29 - Raymond St. Leger, "Transgenic fungi for mosquito control"
5:21:24 - Timothy James, "Recombination versus mutation as the fuel for rapid evolution across the fungal tree of life"
5:41:12 - Cora MacAlister, "Building a moving wall: Maintaining cell wall polarity during tip growth"