Susan Lynch, PhD

Keynote Speaker
Professor, School of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco

Dr. Lynch is the Director of Benioff Center for Microbiome Medicine and Professor of Medicine, at the University of California San Francisco. Dr. Lynch graduated from University College Dublin and completed her postdoctoral studies at Stanford University. Her laboratory is located in the Division of Gastroenterology, at the University of California San Francisco, Parnassus Campus.

The SET Center invites you to attend our fourth annual symposium, Ready. SET. Go!, with keynote speaker Susan Lynch, PhD. Dr. Lynch will join us from her lab at the University of California, San Francisco, to speak about the connection of the infant microbiome and health during childhood. We will also hear from Zhuzhu Zhang, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Genetics and the Neuroscience Institute, and the SET Center’s 2024 Pilot Grant awardee. Dr. Zhang will discuss her project researching the epigenetic underpinnings of neural circuitry maturation during postnatal brain development.

The SET Center will launch it’s 2025 Pilot Grant during the symposium. The SET Center will also provide more information about its new mini grants, in amounts up to $5,000. Attendees will have the opportunity during the final portion of the program to network with other UChicago researchers.

Where: Quadrangle Club, Library (second floor*)
When: Monday, October 14, 2024, 2:00pm – 4:30pm, reception to immediately follow

*Elevator currently out of service