Bridges to the Baccalaureate - Event Seminars
Visiting Speaker Presentations
Upcoming
Thursday, April 24, 2025: 11:10am-12:00pm
Location TBD, Cal Poly Campus
Christina Dieli-Conwright, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Dr. Christina Dieli-Conwright is a Cal Poly SLO alumna and an Associate Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. She holds a secondary faculty appointment at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in the department of Nutrition. She is an exercise oncology researcher whose interest lies in examining the effects of post-diagnosis exercise on cancer prognosis with a specific focus on biomarkers related to body composition, inflammation, cognition, and metabolic dysregulation.
Thursday, May 15, 2025: 11:10am-12:00pm
Location TBD, Cal Poly Campus
Luis de la Torre-Ubieta, PhD, Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center
David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles
Dr. Luis de la Torre-Ubieta utilizes bioinformatics and genomic engineering to study human brain development. He aims to gain insights into the genetic, cellular and molecular mechanisms that drive this process in order to develop new treatments for neurodevelopmental and neuropsychiatric conditions, such as autism and schizophrenia.
