2025 SB Symposium Schedule
June 6, 2025 (Friday)
Charles B. Wang Center Theater
| 9:00-9:15 AM | Opening Remarks |
| 9:15-9:55 AM | Opening Lecture (Makoto Fujita) |
| 9:55-12:00 PM |
Session I |
| 12:00-12:55 PM | Lunch |
| 1:00-2:50 PM | Session II Mikiko Sodeoka*** Louis Fensterbank*** Hauh-Jyun (Candy) Chen** Greta Vachi** |
| 2:50-3:30 PM | Coffee Break and Poster Session (hybrid) |
| 3:30-5:20 PM | Session III Songnian Lin*** Scott Kuduk*** Chih-Yuan Grace Chuang** Claude Commandeur** |
| 6:15-7:00 PM | Reception (Student Activity Center, Ballroom B) |
| 7:00-9:30 PM | Banquet (Student Activity Center, Ballroom A) |
June 7, 2025 (Saturday)
Charles B. Wang Center Theater
| 9:00-10:20 AM | Session IV Wen-Hua Chiou* Joseph Kaloko* Kunal Kumar* Bruno Chapsal* |
| 10:20-10:30 AM | Break |
| 10:40-12:00 PM | Thierry Brigaurd** Masakatsu Eguchi* Changwei Wang* Jason Beiger* |
| 12:00-12:30 PM | Blitz Talks Edward Ng (EMD Performance Materials) Edward Wu (Myrobalan Therapeutics) Krupanandan Haranahalli (Ginkgo Bioworks Inc.) Greta Klejborowska (University of Antwerp) Ce Shi (Merck & Co.) |
| 12:30-1:30 PM | Lunch and Poster Session (hybrid) |
| 1:30-3:30 PM | Session V (Panel Discussion) (may insert 10 min break at 2:25-2:35) Leila Abrous* (Coordinator) Subrata Chakravarty** Bibia Heideman** Elizabeth Cormier* Evelyne Michaud* Cecilia Fumero Oderda* Deric Geng* Larisa Kuznetsova* William Berger* |
| 3:30-4:30 PM | Coffee Break and Poster Session (hybrid) |
| 4:30-5:30 PM | Closing Lecture: Iwao Ojima |
| 5:30 PM | Closing Remarks |
| 6:30-9:00 PM | Ojima Lab Alumni Reunion Dinner (Location: Hilton Garden Inn Stony Brook) |
***Plenary Speaker; **Keynote Speaker; *Invited Speaker
Time allocation: Plenary*** 30 min; Keynote** 25 min; Invited* 20 min (not applicable to Session V (Panel Discussion); Blitz Talk 5 min.
