Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Christina Smolke
Talk Title: Data-rich strategies for elucidating hammerhead ribozyme sequence-function relationships and engineering ribozyme switches
Event: The 22nd Annual Meeting of the RNA Society

Dr. Joyce Teng, MD, PhD is a professor of dermatology at Stanford University. She is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital (LPCH) at Stanford and Stanford Hospital and Clinics (SHC). Dr. Teng received her medical degree from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and has been in practice for more than 12 years. She is one of the 5 pediatric dermatologists practicing at LPCH and one of 72 at SHC who specialize in Dermatology.

Dr. Santiago's research focuses on the study of microscale transport phenomena including electrokinetic flow, electrohydrodynamic instabilities, and general convective-diffusion-electromigration processes.

Dr. Shizuru's research interests are to understand the cellular and molecular basis of resistance to engraftment of transplanted allogeneic bone marrow (BM) cells and to understand the way in which BM grafts modify immune responses.