Dr. Taghreed Al-Turki
Translational Scientist, PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dr. Taghreed Al-Turki is a translational scientist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill whose research focuses on telomere biology and aging. Her work has contributed to human spaceflight studies arising from Inspiration4, the world’s first all-civilian orbital spaceflight, and the Axiom-2 mission. Her breakthrough research challenged a longstanding view, held for nearly 80 years, that telomeric repetitive regions could not encode proteins, demonstrating that telomeric sequences can give rise to previously unknown proteins and revealing a new dimension of telomere biology. Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/taghreed-al-turki-/
Speakers
Prof. Paul D. Asimow
Eleanor and John R. McMillan Professor of Geology and Geochemistry
Prof. Dara Entekhabi
Bacardi and Stockholm Water Foundations Chair
Prof. Howard Zebker
Kwoh-Ting Li Professor of Engineering Stanford University
Dr. Amani Alonazi
Associate Technical Fellow
Dr. Michelle Parker
Vice President and Chief Engineer, Boeing Defense, Space and Security
Mr. Waleed Alwalaie
GM Space Data and Applications
Eng. Muryah Alshahrani
General Manager of Space Systems and Infrastructure
Eng. AlHarith Almoosa
General Manager of Spacecrafts Engineering & Integration
Mr. Khalid Manjoo
Director of Spacecraft Engineering
Prof. Alexander Hayes
Director, Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Saturn