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.