Plenary Sessions

Day	Time	Code	Title	Location	Speakers
Thursday, October 26	1:15 pm – 2:15 pm	P1	Rewriting the Code of Life	Marriott Marquis: Salon 9	Jennifer Doudna Professor, molecular and cell biology and chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
Thursday, October 26	4:15 pm – 4:30 pm		Opening Ceremony	Marriott Marquis: Salons 8+9
Thursday, October 26	4:30 pm – 5:45 pm	P2	Why the Wafflers Are Wrong: Addressing Climate Change Is Urgent—and a Bargain	Marriott Marquis: Salons 8+9	John P. Holdren Teresa & John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy, Kennedy School of Government, and Professor of Environmental Science & Policy, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Harvard University
Friday, October 27	8:45 am – 10:00 am	P3	The Art of Truth: Data Visualization and Infographics for Everyone	Marriott Marquis: Salon 9	Alberto Cairo Knight chair in visual journalism, University of Miami
Friday, October 27	8:45 am – 10:00 am	P4	In Defense of Science	Marriott Marquis: Salon 8	Susan Desmond-Hellmann Chief Executive Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Friday, October 27	4:45 pm – 6:00 pm	P5	Africa: The Cradle of Mathematical Sciences	Marriott Marquis: Salons 8-9	Thierry Zomahoun President and CEO, The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Saturday, October 28	9:00 am – 10:15 am	P6	A Delicate Balance: Immunity in Health, Disease and Medicine	Marriott Marquis: Salon 8	Jeffrey Bluestone A.W. and Mary Margaret Clausen distinguished professor, UC San Francisco; President and CEO, Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy
Saturday, October 28	9:00 am – 10:15 am	P7	Book It: A Conversation Among Authors Mary Roach, Steve Silberman and Ed Yong	Marriott Marquis: Salon 9	Steve Silberman Award-winning author of Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity Mary Roach Bestselling author of Grunt, Gulp, Stiff and many more Ed Yong Author, I Contain Multitudes and staff writer, The Atlantic
Saturday, October 28	4:45 pm – 6:00 pm	P8	Science Journalism, Authoritarian Regimes, and Pseudoscience	Marriott Marquis: Salons 8-9	Carla Da Silva Almeida Science journalist and researcher, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) Jasson Muir Clarke Journalist and PR specialist; communications officer, World Animal Protection Dyna Rochmyaningsih Freelance science journalist Sarah Wild Science journalist Mohammed Yahia Executive editor, Middle East, Nature Research
Sunday, October 29	8:00 am-9:15 am	P9.5	Closing Ceremony and Plenary: The Hazard Zone: Science Journalists Tackle Natural Disasters	MARRIOTT MARQUIS: SALONS 8-9	Guillermo Lopez Portillo Investigative reporter, Televisa News Lesley McClurg Eva Ruth Moravec Freelance reporter Brian Resnick Science writer, Vox Erik Vance Freelance science writer and reporter
Sunday, October 29	11:00 am – 12:15 pm	P10	“One Test to Rule Them All”: Joe DeRisi in Conversation with Carl Zimmer	UCSF Mission Bay Campus	Joe DeRisi Professor and chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, UCSF, and co-president of the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Carl Zimmer Columnist, The New York Times and contributing national correspondent, STAT Sam Hawgood Chancellor, University of California, San Francisco
Sunday, October 29	11:15 am – 12:15 pm	P11	Climate Change Primer: Responding to Global Impacts of Human Activity	University of California, Berkeley: Wheeler Hall Auditorium	William Collins Professor, earth and planetary science, UC Berkeley; senior scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Inez Fung Professor, earth and planetary science & environmental science, policy and management, UC Berkeley Kristina Hill Associate professor, landscape architecture & environmental planning and urban design, UC Berkeley Daniel Kammen Professor, energy and resources & public policy, UC Berkeley David Sedlak Professor, civil and environmental engineering, UC Berkeley