Events
The Beckman Center hosts a number of events throughout the year including film screenings, special lectures, and the annual Beckman Symposium.
Upcoming Seminars and Symposia
Past Events
The Beckman Symposia 2008–2018
Beckman Symposium: The Revolution in Diagnostics
September 10, 2018
The most recent Beckman Symposium was held on Monday, September 10, 2018. “The Revolution in Diagnostics” looked at how single cell DNA sequencing, liquid biopsies for cancer and fetal DNA, implantable devices, state-of-the-art imaging technologies and other biomedical breakthroughs are opening up whole new worlds of diagnostic possibility.
Beckman Symposium: Technology Innovation and Human Genomics
February 12, 2018
Speakers: Russ Biagio Altman, Euan Ashley, Deanna Church, Christina Curtis, Stacey Gabriel, Manuel Rivas, Tsachy Weissman, and Daniela Witten
25th Anniversary Beckman Symposium: Innovation in the Biosphere
February 23, 2015
Speakers: Uri Alon, Adam Arkin, Karl Deisseroth, Jay Keasling, Stephen Quake, Carla Shatz, J. Craig Venter, and Jonathan Weissman
2013 Beckman Symposium: Growth Control Across Kingdoms, "Comparing Growth Control in Plants & Animals"
October 14, 2013
Speakers: Alejandro Sanchez Alvarado, Dominique Bergmann, Bob Goldstein, Venugopala Gonehal, Steven Jacobsen, Allan Spradling, and Joanna Wysocka
2012 Beckman Symposium: Diseases of Molecular Motors and Cytoskeleton
May 21, 2012
Speakers: Euan Ashley, Robert Goldman, Lawrence Goldstein, Leslie Leinwand, Elizabeth McNally, David Spector, and James Spudich
2010 Beckman Symposium: Diseases of the Brain
October 25, 2010
Speakers: Lorie Glimcher, Kim Huber, Simon John, Thomas Kodadek, Emmanuel Mignot, David Porteus, David Prince, and Tom Südhof
2009 Beckman Symposium: Global Health and Emerging Infectious Diseases
April 13, 2009
Speakers: Joseph DeRisi, Stanley Falkow, Maria Freire, Thomas Quinn, Rino Rappuoli, Gary Schoolnik, and Tadataka “Tachi” Yamada
2008 Beckman Symposium: Cancer and Stem Cells
February 4, 2008
Speakers: Philip Beachy, Michael Clarke, Hans Clevers, Andrew Fire, Margaret Fuller, Thomas Look, Tannishtha Reya, Irving Weissman, and Owen Witte