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Ned Wingreen, Ph.D., principal investigator, Howard A. Prior Professor of the Life Sciences, department of molecular biology and Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, acting director, Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University

Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe, M.D., Nuffield Professor of Clinical Medicine, head, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford

Yael David, Ph.D., postdoctoral researcher, Princeton University

Ben Stanger, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor, Perelmen School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Charles M. Rice, Ph.D., Maurice R. and Corinne P. Greenberg Professor in Virology and head, Laboratory of Virology and Infectious Disease, scientific and executive director, Center for the Study of Hepatitis C, The Rockefeller University

Gira Bhabha, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, University of California, San Francisco

Jill Bargonetti, Ph.D., professor, department of biological sciences, Hunter College

Michael Laub, Ph.D., associate professor, department of biology, MIT

Mia Petljak, BSc, Ph.D. candidate, Cancer Genome Project, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute

Anne Brunet, Ph.D., Michele and Timothy Barakett Endowed Professor, department of genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine

Xiaoqiu Yuan, graduate fellow, The Rockefeller University

Sean B. Carroll, Ph.D., Vice President for Science Education, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Benjamin Sabari, graduate fellow, The Rockefeller University

Carla Shatz, M.D., Ph.D., Sapp Family Provostial Professor, department of biology and department of neurobiology, David Starr Jordan Director, Stanford Bio-X, Stanford University School of Medicine

Michael Rossmann, Ph.D., Hanley Distinguished Professor of Biological Sciences, Purdue University

Ana Maria Cuervo, M.D., Ph.D., professor, Robert and Renée Belfer Chair for the Study of Neurodegenerative Diseases, co-director, Einstein Institute for Aging Research, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Carlos D. Bustamante, Ph.D., professor of biomedical data science and genetics, founding director, Stanford Center for Computational, Evolutionary, and Human Genomics, director of informatics, Stanford Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine

Claude Desplan, Ph.D., Silver Professor, department of biology, New York University

Eric Gouax, Ph.D., senior scientist, Vollum Institute, Jennifer and Bernard Lacroute Term Chair in Neuroscience Research, Oregon Health & Science University; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Akhilesh Pandey, M.D., Ph.D., professor, McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Z. Jane Wang, Ph.D., professor, department of physics and department of mechanical and aerospace engineering, Cornell University

Bruce Beutler, M.D., Regental Professor, director, Center for the Genetics of Host Defense, Raymond and Ellen Willie Distinguished Chair in Cancer Research, in Honor of Laverne and Raymond Willie, Sr., The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Peter Fridy, graduate fellow, The Rockefeller University

8:30 a.m.: Registration

9:00 a.m.: Cori Bargmann, Ph.D., The Rockefeller University; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Welcoming Remarks

9:10 a.m.: Adrian Bird, Ph.D., University of Edinburgh, Molecular Basis and Reversibility of a Neurodevelopmental Disorder

9:40 a.m.: Evan Eichler, Ph.D., University of Washington; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, What Makes Us Human? Insights from a Dynamic Genome

10:10 a.m.: Catherine Dulac, Ph.D., Harvard University; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Parental Inheritance and Brain Function

11:00 a.m.: Gerald Rubin, Ph.D., Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Learning and Memory in Drosophila

11:30 a.m.: Moritz Helmstaedter, M.D., Ph.D., Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Cellular-Resolution Connectomics

12:00 p.m.: Edward Callaway, Ph.D., Salk Institute for Biological Studies, Astonishing Prescience: What Would Francis Do?

2:10 p.m.: Kristen Harris, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, Silent Synapse Growth and the Augmentation of Learning

2:40 p.m.; Yang Dan, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Neural Circuits Controlling Sleep

3:30 p.m.: Sabine Kastner, M.D., Ph.D., Princeton University, Cognitive Functions of the Visual Thalamus

4:00 p.m.: Stanislas Dehaene, Ph.D., INSERM-CEA; Collège de France, Decoding the Time Course of Conscious and Unconscious Operations

4:30 p.m.: Christof Koch, Ph.D., Allen Institute for Brain Science, Francis Crick and the Search for the Footprints of Consciousness in the Brain

5:00 p.m.: Thomas Jessell, Ph.D., Columbia University; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Closing Remarks

Sohail Tavazoie, M.D., Ph.D., Leon Hess Associate Professor, Elizabeth and Vincent Meyer Laboratory of Systems Cancer Biology, The Rockefeller University

Ruth Lehmann, Ph.D., Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Professor of Cell Biology, chair, department of cell biology, director, Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, NYU School of Medicine; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute