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.
Registration will officially open January 2023.
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 of Research Gene Editing
Vertex
Victor Dzau, M.D. (NAM)
President
National Academy of Medicine
Geoffrey Ginsburg, M.D., Ph.D.
Chief Medical and Scientific Officer
National Institutes of Health (NIH) All of Us Research Program
Amy Lynn McGuire, J.D., Ph.D.
Leon Jaworski Professor of Biomedical Ethics and Director
Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy
Baylor College of Medicine
Alejandro Moreno
Assistant Secretary (Acting)
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Renewable Power
Department of Energy
Ramamoorthy Ramesh, Ph.D. (NAE)
Vice President for Research
Rice University
Daniel J. Siegwart, Ph.D.
W. Ray Wallace Distinguished Chair in Molecular Oncology Research
UT Southwestern Medical Center
David Taylor Jr, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Molecular Biosciences
The University of Texas at Austin
Huda Y. Zoghbi, M.D. (NAM, NAS)
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
