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T o m a l e s B a y 23rd Annual Interdisciplinary Symposium Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science 468 Donner Lab June 7-9, 2019 Berkeley, CA 94720-5190 U n i v e r s i t y o f C a l i f o r n i a , B e r k e l e y Email: [email protected] http://miller.berkeley.edu Phone: 510-642-4088 THE MILLER INSTITUTE A BRIEF HISTORY NAME INSTITUTION DEPARTMENT EMAIL ADDRESS UC BERKELEY MOLECULAR & CELL [email protected] LEMON, CHRISTOPHER BIOLOGY The Miller Institute was established in 1955 after Adolph C. Miller and his wife, LU, JESSICA UC BERKELEY ASTRONOMY [email protected] Mary Sprague Miller donated just over $5 million dollars to the University. It was their wish that the donation be used to establish an institute “dedicated to the en- MANGA, UC BERKELEY EARTH & PLANETARY [email protected] couragement of creative thought and conduct of pure science.” The gift was made MICHAEL SCIENCE in 1943 but remained anonymous until after the death of the Millers. MARTELL, JEFF UNIV OF WISCONSIN CHEMISTRY [email protected] Adolph Miller was born in San Francisco on January 7, 1866. He entered UC in 1883 and was active throughout his CAL years. After graduation he went to Har- MERCHANT, UC BERKELEY MOLECULAR & CELL [email protected] vard for Graduate School and then for additional study in Paris and Munich. He SABEEHA BIOLOGY returned to the United States and taught Economics at Harvard until he was ap- MEYER, UC BERKELEY MOLECULAR & CELL [email protected] pointed Assistant Professor of Political Science in Berkeley in 1890. After just one year he moved to BIOLOGY BARBARA Cornell. A year later he moved on to Chicago as a full professor of Finance. UC BERKELEY INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY [email protected] MOELLER, ANDREW He married Mary Sprague in 1885. She was the eldest child of a prosperous Chicago businessman and MOSCHIDIS, UC BERKELEY MATHEMATICS [email protected] perhaps the source of much of the Millers’ wealth. In 1902 Miller returned to Berkeley as Flood Professor of GEORGIOS Economics and Commerce. He established the College of Commerce, which has grown into the Haas School NGUYEN, KELLY UC BERKELEY MOLECULAR & CELL [email protected] of Business today. BIOLOGY PACHTER, LIOR CALTECH COMPUTATIONAL BIOL- [email protected] After 11 years at UC, Miller resigned to become the US Assistant Secretary to the Interior. The following OGY AND COMPUTING year the Federal Reserve system was established and President Wilson appointed Miller to its Board of Governors. He held that position for 22 years under 5 different presidents. PEPPER, RACHEL UNIVERSITY OF PUGET BIOPHYSICS [email protected] SOUND The Miller Institute has sponsored Miller Professors, Visiting Miller Professors and Miller Research Fellows PLANK, TERRY COLUMBIA LAMONT-DOHERTY [email protected] UNIVERSITY EARTH OBSERVATORY at different times throughout its history. The first appointments of Miller Professors were made in January 1957. After its 50+ year history the Institute has hosted over 1,000 scientists in its programs. For a period of PRINGLE, ROB PRINCETON UNIV ECOLOGY & [email protected] EVOLUTIONARY BIO time in the 1980s the Visiting Miller Professorship program did not exist but it resumed in 1985 and has grown considerably since that time. RICO-GUEVARA, UC BERKELEY INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY [email protected] ALEJANDRO In 2008 the Institute created the Miller Senior Fellowship Program and appointed its first recipient. Miller UC BERKELEY PHYSICS [email protected] RODD, NICK Senior Fellows serve as mentors to the Miller Fellows by leading discussions and participating in Institute UC BERKELEY PUBLIC AFFAIRS - [email protected] events. They are awarded an annual research grant to use at their discretion in support of their research. SANDERS, SCIENCE COMMUNICATIONS ROBERT The Institute is governed by the Advisory Board, which is comprised of the Chancellor of the University, SCHEKMAN, UC BERKELEY MOLECULAR & CELL [email protected] BIOLOGY RANDY four outside members, and the Executive Committee. The Advisory Board meets once a year to assist the SLOTZNICK, UC BERKELEY EARTH & PLANETARY [email protected] Executive Committee in selecting Miller Professors and the Visiting Miller Professors. The Executive SARAH SCIENCE Committee alone selects the Miller Fellows and the Miller Senior Fellows. SOCQUET, ANNE UNIV OF GRENOBLE ISTERRE LABORATORY anne.socquet@univ-grenoble- alpes.fr More at: http://miller.berkeley.edu/ 2019 SYMPOSIUM COMMITTEE NAME INSTITUTION DEPARTMENT EMAIL FERRARO, LBNL ASTROPHYSICS [email protected] Cara Brook, Integrative Biology / Plant & Microbial Biology SIMONE FILIPPENKO, UC BERKELEY ASTRONOMY [email protected] Kathryn Day, Miller Institute Staff ALEX FU, RUBY UC BERKELEY EARTH & PLANETARY [email protected] Becky Jensen-Clem, Astronomy SCIENCE GALLAGHER, ANNUAL REVIEWS PRESIDENT & [email protected] Christopher Lemon, Molecular & Cell Biology RICHARD EDITOR IN CHIEF GAUDINIER, UC BERKELEY PLANT & MICROBIAL [email protected] Michael Manga, Earth & Planetary Science, Chair of Symposium Cmte. ALLIE BIO / STATISTICS GOOD, BEN UC BERKELEY PHYSICS / [email protected] Kelly Nguyen, Molecular & Cell Biology BIOENGINEERING HAMMOND, UC BERKELEY MATHEMATICS [email protected] Sarah Slotznick, Earth & Planetary Science ALAN HARRIS, NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO JOURNALIST [email protected] Sho Takatori, Bioengineering RICHARD Alex Turner, Chemistry / Earth & Planetary Science HOPKINS, SAM UC BERKELEY EECS [email protected] HUNT, CASSI LBNL PHYSICS [email protected] JACOBSEN, UC BERKELEY MILLER INSTITUTE [email protected] HILARY Executive Committee Advisory Board JEANLOZ, UC BERKELEY EARTH & PLANETARY [email protected] Professor Roland Bürgmann Chancellor Carol Christ RAYMOND SCIENCE Earth & Planetary Science JENSEN-CLEM, UC BERKELEY ASTRONOMY [email protected] Professor Steven Block BECKY Professor Marla Feller Biology & Applied Physics UC BERKELEY CHEMISTRY [email protected] Executive Director, Miller Institute Stanford University JI, PENGFEI Molecular & Cell Biology: Neurobiology Professor Luis Caffarelli KAMATH, UC BERKELEY ENVIRONMENAL SCI [email protected] Professor Stephen Leone Mathematics AMBIKA POLICY & MGMT Chemistry & Physics University of Texas, Austin KANG, LOUIS UC BERKELEY PHYSICS / HWNI [email protected] Professor Yun Song Professor Feryal Özel KEYS, PATRICK COLORADO STATE GLOBAL ENVIRONMEN- [email protected] EECS / Statistics / Integrative Biology Astronomy & Physics TAL SUSTAINABILITY University of Arizona KING, NICOLE UC BERKELEY MOLECULAR & CELL BIO [email protected] Professor Tim Stearns Biology LAIDRE, MARK DARTMOUTH BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES [email protected] Stanford University MILLER INSTITUTE 2019 SYMPOSIUM PARTICIPANTS INTERDISCIPLINARY SYMPOSIUM 2019 SPEAKERS NAME INSTITUTION DEPARTMENT EMAIL ABEL, BERND UNIV OF LEIPZIG CHEMISTRY [email protected] ABRAMS, MICHAEL UC BERKELEY MCB [email protected] Frances Arnold Chemical Engineering CALTECH CHEMICAL ENG [email protected] ARNOLD, FRANCES Caltech BARNES, COLORADO STATE ATMOSPHERIC [email protected] ELIZABETH UNIVERSITY SCIENCE Elizabeth Barnes BARREAU, LOU UC BERKELEY CHEMISTRY [email protected] Atmospheric Science BHATLA, NIKHIL UC BERKELEY HWNI / MCB [email protected] Colorado State University BILLINGS, LEE SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SENIOR EDITOR [email protected] Yi Cui BLOCK, STEVE STANFORD UNIVERSITY BIOLOGY & APPLIED [email protected] PHYSICS Materials Science & Engineering BROOK, CARA UC BERKELEY IB / PLANT & [email protected] Stanford University MICROBIAL BIOLOGY [email protected] BÜRGMANN, UC BERKELEY EARTH & PLANETARY SCIENCE Jessica Lu ROLAND Astronomy CHOI, SOONWON UC BERKELEY PHYSICS [email protected] UC Berkeley CLINE, TOM UC BERKELEY MOL & CELL BIOLOGY [email protected] Sabeeha Merchant CORTEEL, SYLVIE CNRS—UNIVERISITE MATHEMATICS [email protected] PARIS—DIDEROT Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology Plant & Microbial Biology CUI, YI STANFORD UNIVERSITY MATERIALS SCIENCE [email protected] ENGINEERING UC Berkeley DALTON, RYAN [email protected] Terry Plank DAY, KATHRYN UC BERKELEY MILLER INSTITUTE [email protected] Geochemistry DE POYFERRE, UC BERKELEY MATHEMATICS [email protected] Columbia University Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory THIBAULT DRAKE, NADIA NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC JOURNALIST [email protected] Corina Tarnita FEDER, ALISON UC BERKELEY INTEGRATIVE BIO [email protected] Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Princeton University FELLER, MARLA UC BERKELEY MOLECULAR & CELL [email protected] BIOLOGY FRANCES ARNOLD Department of Chemical Engineering Alexander Turner, 2017-2020 Caltech Dept of Chemistry and Earth & Planetary Science [email protected] Hosts: Ron Cohen, Inez Fung http://fhalab.caltech.edu/ Ph.D. Institution: Harvard https://alexjturner.github.io Frances Arnold is the Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical [email protected] Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry at the California Institute of Technology, where she has been on the My primary research objective is to improve our understanding faculty since 1986. She is the first American woman to win of the carbon cycle through inverse modeling. Specifically, I'm the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2018). Arnold pioneered interested in quantifying greenhouse gas fluxes and understand- directed protein evolution and has used those methods for ing the