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Timothy Buschman, Ph.D., assistant professor, Princeton Neuroscience Institute and department of psychology, Princeton University

Lev Becker, Ph.D., assistant professor, Ben May Department for Cancer Research, The University of Chicago

Gyorgy Hajnoczky, M.D., Ph.D., professor, department of pathology and cell biology, Thomas Jefferson University

Matt Rockman, Ph.D., associate professor of biology, New York University

Lluis Quintana-Murci, Ph.D., head, Laboratory of Human Evolutionary Genetics, Institut Pasteur

Thomas Jessell, Ph.D., Claire Tow Professor, department of neuroscience, department of biochemistry and molecular biophysics, Columbia University Medical Center; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Natasza Kurpios, Ph.D., assistant professor, department of molecular medicine, Cornell University School of Veterinary Medicine

John Harty, Ph.D., Mark Stinski Chair in Microbial Immunology, professor, department of microbiology, University of Iowa College of Medicine

Alanna Schepartz, Ph.D., principal investigator, Milton Harris '29 Professor of Chemistry, professor of molecular, cellular, and developmental biology, Yale University

10:00 a.m.: Ali Brivanlou, Ph.D., Robert and Harriet Heilbrunn Professor and head, Laboratory of Stem Cell and Molecular Embryologu, The Rockefeller University, Welcome Remarks

10:05 a.m.: Scott E. Fraser, Ph.D., professor of biology and bioengineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Sense, Antisense and Nonsense

10:30 a.m.: Mustafa Khoka, Ph.D., associate professor of pediatrics and genetics, Yale University, What Richard Taught Me about Wnt Signaling, and How I'd Like to Return the Favor

10:45 a.m.: Robb Krumlauf, Ph.D., scientific director, Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Hox Targets: Finding Your Friends

11:15 a.m.: John Wallingford, Ph.D., professor, University of Texas, Austin, Planar Cell Polarity and Convergent Extension: What We Got Right and What We Got Wrong

11:30 a.m.: Dale Frank, Ph.D., technion, Israel University of Technology, Signaling Pathway/Transcription Factor Interactions Regulating Early Cell Fate Decisions in the Developing Nervous System

11:45 a.m.: Karen Liu, Ph.D., professor, King's College London, Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Cranial Crest

1:15 p.m.: Francesca Mariani, Ph.D., assistant professor, Keck School of Medicine at USC, Heal Thyself! From Stem Cells to Cartilage and Bone

1:30 p.m.: Aris Economides, Ph.D., executive director, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, What Does Noggin Got to Do with Fibrodysplasia Ossifican Progressiva?

2:00 p.m.: Ali H. Brivanlou, Ph.D., Robert and Harriet Heilbrunn Professor and head, Laboratory of Stem Cell Biology and Molecular Embryology, The Rockefeller University, Self Understanding of Self Organization: It's all Richard's Fault

2:25 p.m.; Marc Dionne, Ph.D., senior lecturer, Imperial College in London, How I learned to stop worrying and love metabolism and immunity.

3:10 p.m.: Benjamin Martin, Ph.D., assistant professor of biochemistry and cell biology, Stony Brook University, Combinatorial Signaling Interactions Pattern Mesoderm by Controlling bHLH Transcription Factor Activity

3:25 p.m.: Anne-Helene Burq, Ph.D., professor, Institut Curie, Paris, Uncovering unconventional functions of a metabolic regulator in frog early development

3:50 p.m.: Michael Levine, Ph.D., professor of molecular biology, Princeton University, Repression, Memory, and Suboptimization of Gene Activity in Animal Development

4:10 p.m.: Ali H. Brivanlou, Ph.D., Robert and Harriet Heilbrunn Professor and head, Laboratory of Stem Cell Biology and Molecular Embryology, The Rockefeller University, Concluding Remarks

4:10 p.m.: Richard Harland, Ph.D., department co-chair and C.H. Li Distinguished Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development, University of California, Berkeley, Concluding Remarks

Allison Frontier, Ph.D., professor of chemistry, University of Rochester

Marija Vucelja, Ph.D., assistant professor, department of physics, University of Virginia

E.J. Chichilnisky, Ph.D., John R. Adler Professor of Neurosurgery, Stanford University

David Levens, M.D., Ph.D., senior investigator, Laboratory of Pathology, head, Gene Regulation Section, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institute of Health

Jason Pitts, graduate fellow, Laboratory of Brain Development and Repair, The Rockefeller University

Benoit Roux, Ph.D., professor of biochemistry and molecular biosciences, The University of Chicago

Roman Corfas, graduate student, Laboratory of Neurogenetics and Behavior, The Rockefeller University