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Dr. Yarden Golan earned a Bachelor's degree in Nutrition Science from Tel-Hai College (Kiryat Shmona, Israel) and a Ph.D. from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (Haifa, Israel). Her doctoral research focused on understanding the zinc transport mechanism into human milk via the zinc transporter ZnT2, as well as the effects of genetic variations on the structure and function of this transporter.

For her postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

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Melissa Conroy is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Human Centered Design who specializes in knitwear design and cross-disciplinary creative collaboration.  She will discuss the differences and intersections between the disciplines of art, craft and design with an emphasis on understanding how the disciplines of art and craft can benefit the design process using hands-on processes.