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SUMMARY:Fundamentals for Startups: Jared Silvia\, Gliding Ant Ventures
DESCRIPTION:The good\, the bad\, and the ugly about non-dilutive funding \n\n\nThe most important job of a founder is getting your startup funded. Lots of the focus nowadays is on figuring out how to get money from private investors\, typically venture capitalists. This talk\, presented by Jared Silvia\, will focus on another critical source of funds for many first-time founders — non-dilutive funding. We will do a quick survey of the sources of non-dilutive funding\, discuss how it fits into a resilient capital strategy\, and then do a deep dive on one of the biggest sources of non-dilutive funding in the US\, the SBIR/STTR grant program\, and how you can get started on your first grant. \nAbout the Speaker \n​Jared Silvia is an entrepreneur and business leader who builds climate-tech and deep tech companies and products. He is a Partner and Founder at Gliding Ant Ventures in Seattle\, where he provides professional services and co-builds early-stage startups in the cleantech and deep tech sectors. He launched the SBIR Academy\, an eight-week program that teaches deep tech founders how to apply for US SBIR awards\, and created Deep Tech Dirt\, an online resource and community that helps founders build their companies more effectively. Before this\, he was CEO\, Co-founder\, and President of BlueDot Photonics\, where he raised nearly $3 million in equity and non-dilutive funding and led the company’s solar technology development. Earlier in his career\, he served as an Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company\, held product leadership roles at Doosan GridTech\, and worked with electric utilities as a consultant at Sound Grid Partners. He holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry from MIT\, an MPhil in Chemistry from the University of Cambridge as a Winston Churchill Scholar\, and B.S. degrees in Chemistry and Biochemistry from the University of Washington. He was named to the Puget Sound Business Journal 40 Under 40 in 2023. \n\n\nLearn More and RSVP >>> \nAbout Fundamentals for Startups \nFundamentals for Startups is a weekly one-hour lecture series featuring notable experts who share startup-related information\, experience\, and insights with our entrepreneurial community. From raising capital to scaling to exit strategies\, these seasoned guest speakers deliver valuable content designed to help startups and entrepreneurs thrive. \nThese lectures are open to the public and you do not have to be currently affiliated with the UW or a startup to join. Lunch is provided while supplies last. Advanced registration required. Please note\, we are no longer livestreaming these sessions. \n​Elevators and doors open at 11:30 AM and will close promptly at 12:10 PM. Don’t be late!
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SUMMARY:Science in Medicine Lecture: Astra Bryant\, PhD
DESCRIPTION:October 16\, 2026\n1 pm – 2 pm\nFoege South Auditorium (Genome Sciences 060) & Streamed on Zoom Webinar \n \n“The thermosensory specializations of soil-transmitted parasitic nematodes”\nResearch Overview \nSoil-transmitted parasitic nematodes infect over a billion people\, primarily in the world’s most socioeconomically disadvantaged communities\, causing devastating and sometimes fatal illness. Despite this massive health burden\, we lack basic knowledge about the sensory behaviors and physiological specializations that enable parasitic worms to locate and infect humans – processes that could be targets for novel therapeutic interventions. \nDr. Bryant has developed Strongyloides stercoralis\, a human parasite that infects around 610 million people and can be fatal\, as a powerful new organism for performing mechanistic studies of human parasitism and the evolution of sensory behaviors. The S. stercoralis nervous system is remarkably similar to that of the non-parasitic nematode Caenorhabditis elegans\, with common identifiable cell types. Despite these similarities\, the sensory behaviors exhibited by S. stercoralis and C. elegans are significantly different. The central hypothesis of the Bryant Lab is that parasitism of mammals requires dramatic shifts in thermal behavior and physiology that arise from molecular and neural adaptations of the conserved nematode nervous system. The Bryant lab uses a range of techniques\, including high-resolution behavioral quantifications\, tools for neural silencing and imaging\, functional genomics tools\, bioinformatics\, comparative phylogenomics\, and optimized methods for transgenesis and stable line generation. \nDuring her lecture\, Dr. Bryant will describe the lab’s efforts to identify the molecular and neural mechanisms that underlie the dramatic attraction of S. stercoralis infective larvae to human body heat. She will also present in-progress work that asks whether similar mechanisms underlie the temperature-driven behaviors of other nematode species that independently evolved to parasitize mammalian hosts\, including human hookworms. \nBiography \nDr. Bryant is a neuroscientist and a parasitologist specializing in the thermal physiology of soil-transmitted parasitic nematodes. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurobiology & Biophysics at the University of Washington. She received her B.A. in Biology from Bryn Mawr College and a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Stanford University. She entered the field of nematode neuroscience as a postdoc in the lab of Dr. Elissa Hallem at UCLA\, where she established the first methods for quantitative and mechanistic analyses of neural function in parasitic worms. At UW\, her team uses an interdisciplinary\, multi-scale approach combining expertise in neuroscience\, parasitology\, molecular biology\, bioinformatics\, and genetics to understand the thermosensory mechanisms that enable medically important soil-transmitted parasites to locate and infect human hosts. \nDr. Bryant is a 2026 McKnight Neuroscience Scholar\, and the recipient of a 2024 NIAID New Innovator Award (DP2). She has also received several research awards\, including the 2021 Boyer/Parvin Award for Excellence in Molecular Biology research\, the 2020 Arnold Scheibel Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow Award\, and the 2020 M. John Pickett Award for Outstanding Achievement in Postdoctoral Research.
URL:https://research-grad-ed.uwmedicine.org/event/science-in-medicine-lecture-new-investigator-lecture-featuring-astra-bryant-phd/
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