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Bridges to Baccalaureate

Event Seminars - Bridges to Baccalaureate

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.

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