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Brian Volkman, Ph.D., professor of biochemistry, Medical College of Wisconsin

Christine Cho, graduate fellow, Laboratory of Neural Circuits and Behavior, The Rockefeller University

Kevin Eggan, Ph.D., professor, department of stem cell and regenerative biology, Harvard University; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Ari Halper-Stromberg, biomedical fellow, Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, The Rockefeller University

Pablo Polosecki, graduate fellow, Laboratory of Neural Systems, The Rockefeller University

Joseph Luna, graduate fellow, Laboratory of Molecular Neuro-oncology, The Rockefeller University

Vy Maria Dong, Ph.D., professor, department of chemistry, University of California, Irvine

Joao Xavier, Ph.D., assistant faculty member, computational biology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Andreas Trumpp, Ph.D., professor and head of the division of stem cells and cancer, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ); director, Heidelberg Institute for Stem Cell Technology and Experimental Medicine (HI-STEM)

Qing Zhong, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor, internal medicine and biochemistry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Akinori Ebihara, graduate fellow, Laboratory of Neural Systems, The Rockefeller University

Elizabeth Murchison, Ph.D., associate professor in comparative oncology and genetics, department of veterinary medicine, University of Cambridge

Zeeshan Ozair, graduate fellow, Laboratory of Stem Cell Biology and Molecular Embryology, The Rockefeller University

David Tollervey, Ph.D., director, Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh

2:10 p.m.: Benjamin Davis, DPhil, professor of chemistry, University of Oxford, Sugars and Proteins

3:00 p.m.: David Scheinberg, M.D., Ph.D., chairman and Vincent Astor Chair, molecular pharmacology and chemistry program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, A Search for Tumor Specificity

4:10 p.m.: Benjamin Cravatt III, Ph.D., chairman and Norton B. Gilula Chair in Chemical Biology, department of chemical physiology, The Scripps Research Institute, Activity-based Proteomics Applications for Enzyme and Inhibitor Discovery

1:00 p.m.: Gayle Vaday, Ph.D., program manager, Breast Cancer Research Program, Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs, Department of Defense

Adam Cohen, Ph.D., professor of chemistry and chemical biology and of physics, Harvard University

Jennifer Zuckerman Malin, graduate fellow, Laboratory of Developmental Genetics, The Rockefeller University

Angela Nieto, Ph.D., head of developmental neurobiology, Instituto de Neurociencias CSIC-UMH, San Juan de Alicante, Spain

Clark Fisher, biomedical fellow, Laboratory of Neural Systems, The Rockefeller University

Jennifer Doudna, Ph.D., Li Ka Shing Chancellor’s Chair in Biomedical and Health Sciences, professor of molecular and cell biology and of chemistry, University of California, Berkeley; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Lucio Frydman, Ph.D., professor, department of chemical physics, Weizmann Institute of Science

Eduard Batlle, Ph.D., research professor, Catalan Institute for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA); head, colorectal cancer laboratory; head, oncology program, Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Barcelona

Evelyn Witkin, Ph.D., professor emerita, The Waksman Institute of Microbiology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, The SOS Response in Escherichia coli: A Look Back

Stephen Elledge, Ph.D., professor of genetics, Harvard Medical School, The DNA Damage Response

Yixian Zheng, Ph.D., group leader, department of embryology, Carnegie Institution for Science; adjunct professor, The Johns Hopkins University

John Xue, graduate fellow, Laboratory of Chromosome and Cell Biology, The Rockefeller University

Arvind Murugan, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University

Mark Davis, Ph.D., Warren and Katharine Schlinger Professor of Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology

John Blenis, Ph.D., Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Professor of Cancer, Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medical College

Toren Finkel, M.D., Ph.D., chief, center for molecular medicine, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health

Evi Lianidou, Ph.D., professor of analytical chemistry-clinical chemistry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

Anna Kruyer, graduate fellow, Patricia and John Rosenwald Laboratory of Neurobiology and Genetics, The Rockefeller University

Agata Smogorzewska, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor and head, Laboratory of Genome Maintenance, The Rockefeller University

Kavita Rangan, graduate fellow, Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Microbial Pathogenesis, The Rockefeller University

Harry Swinney, Ph.D., Sid W. Richardson Foundation Regents Chair and professor of physics, Center for Nonlinear Dynamics, University of Texas at Austin

Hyeseung Lee, graduate fellow, Elizabeth and Vincent Meyer Laboratory of Systems Cancer Biology, The Rockefeller University

Joseph Sikorski, documentary director and producer, Tower to The People

Ronald Breaker, Ph.D., Henry Ford II Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Yale University; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute