About
The Phage is an homage to the vast dark ecology whose foment gave birth to Earth's living diversity. These ubiquitous viral life forms evolve faster than any other life on earth. In their furious co-optive radiations they have acted as the vital genetic pollinators that wove long-separated lines of cellular life into resplendent new threads - the phage are the needles of life's tapestry. Beware if you encounter us: memetic biohazards lie ahead.
Phage Science Talks
(now diced into small pieces as we still have not evovled to avoid Cas9) All Phage 2023 science talks will be at the Phage dome at 4:30 & B starting at 8:00pm.
Monday August 28th
| 8:05 |
“Twins: A talk about weird twin biology, nature vs nurture, and twins in myths and legends” Meredith Corley - Computational biologist and lifelong twin |
| 8:25 |
Aging science - Breakthroughs & Bullshit Martin Borch Jensen - Used to study cellular mechanisms of aging and apply for grants @NIH and Buck Institute, now discovering drugs @Gordian Biotechnology and giving away grants @Norn Group |
| 8:45 |
Generative AI art NikuAI - Boston-based AI art collective that explores the world via generative algorithms |
| 9:00 |
Using MDMA to treat anxiety associated with terminal illness and end of life Will Barone - Clinical psychologist and psychedelic researcher; founder of The Clinic www.theclinicca.org; supervisor of Zendo Project harm reduction program at Burning Man |
Tuesday August 29th
| 8:05 |
The utter inefficiencies and unrealities of a world underpinned by the streamlined sciences of a steam punk society Chris Moloney - Mechanical engineer turned software developer |
| 8:25 |
“Forecasting dust storms in the black rock desert” Johan Mathe - Co-founder and CTO at Atmo; leading development around climate and weather science using deep learning, applied math, and massively parallel distributed systems; camp lead of Treble Makers (3 & G) - |
| 8:45 |
Itching for answers: the neuroscience behind why we scratch Rose Hill - postdoc studying peripheral sensory neurons in skin that detect itch; co-lead of Black Rock Theme Camp |
| 9:00 |
Do pipes clear our brain? Valentine Perosa - clinician-scientist at Mass General/Harvard med school; studying vascular contributions to Alzheimer’s |
Thursday August 31st
| 8:05 |
Mathemalchemy: the genesis and birth of a collaborative art installation celebrating mathematics
Ingrid Daubechies - professor of mathematics at Duke; creator of mathemalchemy.org |
| 8:25 |
Phages 101: The Tiny Viruses Shaping Our World Amanda Freise - PhD in pharmacology, actual phage biologist, undergraduate research shepherd @ UCLA |
| 8:45 |
Superconducting Qubits for Quantum Information Processing Tristan Brown - PhD candidate in physics; quantum computing researcher |
| 9:00 |
Experiments putting as many fireflies as I can into my pants. Dani Hernandez - PhD in physics; now working in AI and software engineering |
Friday September 1st
| 8:05 |
AI-assisted polyp detection during colonoscopies Joel Shor (aka "The True Joel") - AI and med-tech researcher |
| 8:25 |
tl;dr of being a DJ for Healthy Coral Reef Ecosystems Océane Boulais - researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography; creator of the Polypod |
| 8:45 |
Secret Mathematics and Online Safety Tesseract - mathematician-turned-professional-cryptographer |
| 9:00 |
Doing Drugs Better Rachel Clark - Education Manager and Interim Outreach Director for DanceSafe; college educator |
