The UC Davis – Mars Symposium is a day-long event to
explore scientific discovery, innovation and collaboration in food,
agriculture and health. The event features Countess Bettina Bernadotte,
President of the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings, Nobel Laureate
Elizabeth Blackburn (Physiology or Medicine 2009), along with panel
presentations.
Welcome by co-emcees– Harold H. Schmitz (Chief Science Officer, Mars, Incorporated)
and Heather Young (Associate Vice Chancellor for Nursing; Dean, Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing, UC Davis)
Welcome addresses: Linda P.B. Katehi (Chancellor, UC Davis), Pamela Mars (Technology Committee Chair,Mars, Incorporated),
Countess Bettina Bernadotte (President Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings), Dan Wolk (Mayor, City of Davis), Mary Delany
(Associate Dean, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, UC Davis)
Keynote address– “Searching for solutions to the grand challenges in health”
Elizabeth Blackburn(Nobel Laureate, Physiology or Medicine; Professor, UC San Francisco)
Address– “Innovation: A View from the Classics”
Ralph Hexter (Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor,UC Davis)
Panel discussion– “Scientific discovery and innovation: What can the future look like at the nexus of food,agriculture and health?”
Moderator: William Clark (Professor of International Science, Harvard Kennedy School)
Jeff Gordon (Professor, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis)
Angela Glover Blackwell (Founder and CEO, PolicyLink)
Leslie Greene Bowman (President, Thomas Jefferson Foundation)
Lisa Goldberg (Director of Research, Center for Risk Management Research, UC Berkeley; Director of Research,Aperio Group)
