
Join Us in Houston for the 2023 Annual Conference
REGISTRATION RATES
Member: $150 | Member Institution: $250 | Non-Member: $500 | Protégé: $75
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About the TAMEST 2023 Annual Conference: Forward Texas—Accelerating Change
Save the date for the TAMEST 2023 Annual Conference, Forward Texas: Accelerating Change, May 23–25, 2023, at The InterContinental Houston – Medical Center in Houston, Texas.
A special opening reception will take place the evening of Tuesday, May 23, 2023, in the Morian Hall of Paleontology at the Houston Museum of Natural Science.
The TAMEST 2023 Annual Conference will gather some of our most diverse and innovative researchers to examine how science and technology are leading to fundamental changes in society. The program will focus on four profound transitions already under way: CRISPR gene editing, “big” data science, renewable energy and decarbonization.
The TAMEST annual conference is open to the entire research community.
Sponsorship opportunities will be available for the conference. For more information, please contact Christine McCoy at cmccoy@austin.utexas.edu.
Speakers and Panelists

Leonela Amoasii, Ph.D.
Director
Research and Development
Vertex Pharmaceutical

Geoffrey Ginsburg, M.D., Ph.D.
Chief Medical and Scientific Officer
All of Us Research Program
National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Amy L. McGuire, J.D., Ph.D.
Leon Jaworski Professor of Biomedical Ethics
Director, Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy
Baylor College of Medicine

Ramamoorthy Ramesh, Ph.D. (NAE)
Vice President for Research
Rice University

Daniel J. Siegwart, Ph.D.
Professor
Departments of Biochemistry and Biomedical Engineering
UT Southwestern Medical Center

Dirk Smit, Ph.D.
Chief Scientist Geophysics
Shell Global

David Taylor Jr, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Molecular Biosciences
The University of Texas at Austin

Bobby Tudor
CEO
Artemis Energy Partners

Huda Y. Zoghbi, M.D. (NAM, NAS)
Distinguished Service Professor
Baylor College of Medicine
Director, Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Program Committee Co-Chairs

Lydia E. Kavraki, Ph.D. (NAM)
Noah Harding Professor of Computer Science
Director, Ken Kennedy Institute
Rice University

Engineering:
Robert B. Gilbert, Ph.D. (NAE)
Professor and Department Chair of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
The University of Texas at Austin

Science:
Joshua T. Mendell, M.D., Ph.D.
Charles Cameron Sprague, M.D. Chair in Medical Science
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
UT Southwestern Medical Center

Technology Innovation:
Christian A. Davies, Ph.D.
Principal Scientist
Nature Based Solutions
Shell Projects & Technology USA