Mid-Career Reunion

Thursday November 6, 2025

3145 Porter Drive, Wing D, Palo Alto, CA

6:00 PM – 9:00 PM: Welcome Reception & Taco Dinner

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Friday November 7, 2025

The Quad Conference Center & Tree Deck, 2400 Sand Hill Rd, Menlo Park, CA 94025

 

8:30 AM – 9:00 AM: Continental Breakfast, Coffee and Registration

9:00 AM – 10:00 AM: Mike shares the history of the lab

10:00 AM – 11:00 AM: Yeast Era (Cell Biology and Genomics). Moderator: Barbara Dunn

10:00 AM: Yves Barral, From septin rings to DNA circles, many cycles of aging and rejuvenation

10:15 AM: Jackie Vogel, Regulation of Kar9 multivalency tunes +TIP body fluid properties that position the spindle

10:30 AM: Jen Gallagher, Unconventional Chemical Probes, Big Insights: A Yeast-Fueled Journey Through Cellular Metabolism

10:45 AM: Zhong Wang, From tiny yeast genome to big data and genome foundation models, a 16 year journey beyond the Snyder Lab

11:00 AM – 11:15 AM:  Break

11:15 AM – 12:30 PM: Human I. Moderator: Jennifer Barrett 

11:15 AM: Jessilyn Dunn, The Promise of Digital Biomarkers

11:30 AM: Sara Ahadi, The Plasma Proteome Atlas: Biomarkers for Precision Medicine and Aging

11:45 AM: Sai Zhang, Diagnosing and predicting all diseases from a single plasma proteome profile

12:00 PM: Jiaqian Wu: Delineating the Cellular Heterogeneity and Regulation in Neurotrauma and Neurodegenerative Disease

12:15 PM: Qing Liu, Decipher the regulatory network controlling cellular energy homeostasis as it relates to drug-induced cardiotoxicity

 

12:30 PM – 1:45 PM:  Lunch

 

1:45 PM – 3:00 PM: Human Cell Biology and Genomics II Moderator: Petra Ross-Macdonald

1:45 PM: Brendan Manning, Metabolic control in growth, physiology, cancer, and aging

2:00 PM: Xiao Li, Gene-environment interaction in human disease in health

2:15 PM: Joshua Gruber, In vivo, time-resolved endogenous protein labeling to dissect histone synthesis

2:30 PM: Oana Ursu, Characterizing and engineering cell states in cancer

2:45 PM: Daniel Hornburg, From Molecules to Models: Building and Exploring Multi-Omics Technologies to Decode Life

 

3:00 PM – 3:30 PM: Group Picture at the Atrium steps

 

3:30 PM – 5:15 PM: Human Cell Biology and Genomics III. Moderator: Geeta Devgan

3:30 PM: John Rinn, How Snyderomics Reprogrammed My Life:  20 Years Microarray free

3:45 PM: Hagen Tilgner, RNA isoforms of the brain at single-cell and spatial resolution

4:00 PM: Can Cenik, An Integrative Approach to Predictive Modeling and Single-Cell Measurements of Translation

4:15 PM: Heng Zhu, Global Mapping of Combinatorial Chromatin Regulatory Events Using Hi-Plex CUT&Tag 

4:30 PM: Doug Phanstiel, Decoding and designing gene regulation pathways to tackle challenges in aging, cancer, and cellular agriculture

4:45 PM: Baoxu Pang, Functional study of non-coding regulatory elements in the human genome 

5:00 PM: Cuiping Pan, Decoding the genomics of cardiometabolic diseases 

5:15 PM – 6:15 PM: Reception

6:15 PM: Dinner Buffet

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Saturday November 8, 2025

3145 Porter Drive, Wing D, Palo Alto, CA

8:30 AM – 9:00 AM: Continental Breakfast and Coffee

 

9:00 AM – 10:15 AM: Human Cell Biology and Genomics IV. Moderator: Varsha Rao

9:00 AM: Ahmed Metwally, Precision Diabetes: Metabolic Subphenotyping and Personalized Glycemic Insights Using CGM, Wearables, and AI

9:15 AM: Kun-Hsing Yu, Decoding Morphology–Molecular Connections in Cancer Through Artificial Intelligence

9:30 AM: Si Wu, Applying reverse translation approach on multi-modal omics data for drug target and biomarker research

9:45 AM: Yong Cheng, Precise Perturbations Reveal Hidden Regulatory Functions Beyond Deep Learning

10:00 AM: Manoj Hariharan, Epigenomic Signatures of the Exposome and Endurance  Exercise in Humans and Mice

 

10:15 AM – 10:30 AM: Break

 

10:30 AM to 12:30 PM: Human Cell Biology and Genomics V. Moderator: Akshay Sanghi

10:30 AM: George Mias, Universal Dynamics: From Physical Systems to Omics and Health Transitions

10:45 AM: Ellen Foxman, History matters: from bud site selection to human immunology

11:00 AM: Xin Zhou, human organoid as a system for studying host-microbiome interaction

11:15 AM: Peng Gao, Advancing Next-Generation Exposomics: From Population to Cellular. 

11:30 AM: Jason Ptacek, Translational Omics: Shaping Next-Generation Medicines

11:45 AM: Brian Piening, Multi-omics and AI: bridging the gap from research to the clinic

12:00 PM: Peter Kane, Personalized Medicine Patient Hackathons

12:15 PM: Heyjun Park, Leveraging Multi-Omics and Wearable Digital Biomarkers for Precision Nutrition and Metabolic Health

 

12:30 PM: Lunch

 

Stanford has discounted hotel rates through Radiate Hospitality:

• Crowne Plaza Palo Alto
• Hotel Keene
• Hotel Lucent
• Best Western 

Click here to see discounted hotel rates.

 

Thank you Snyder Lab Alumni!

We look forward to reuniting with all of you in November.