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Xiaolei Su, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, department of cellular molecular pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco

Ivan Dikic, Ph.D., director and professor, Institute of Biochemistry II, Goethe University

Leslie B. Vosshall, Ph.D., Robin Chemers Neustein Professor and head, Laboratory of Neurogenetics and Behavior, director, Kavli Neural Systems Institute, The Rockefeller University; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Keith Joung, M.D., Ph.D., professor, department of pathology, Harvard Medical School

John Wherry, Ph.D., director, Penn Institute for Immunology, Richard and Barbara Schiffrin President's Distinguished Professor, department of microbiology, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

Sylvia Earle, Ph.D., National Geographic Society Explorer-in-Residence and founder of Mission Blue

Massimo Vergassola, Ph.D., Professor, University of California, San Diego

Tuomas Tammela, M.D., Ph.D., senior postdoctoral fellow, Tyler Jacks Lab, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Oliver Stegle, Ph.D., research group leader, European Bioinformatics Institute, European Molecular Biology Laboratory

Rebecca Heald, Ph.D., professor, division of cell and developmental biology, department of molecular and cell biology, University of California, Berkeley

Nancy Kanwisher, Ph.D., investigator, McGovern Institute, Walter A. Rosenblith Professor, department of brain and cognitive sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

David Masopust, Ph.D., associate professor, department of microbiology and immunology and Center for Immunology, University of Minnesota

Joshua Pierce, Ph.D., assistant professor, department of chemistry, North Carolina State University

Geraldine Seydoux, Ph.D., Sheldon Professor of Medical Discovery, department of molecular biology and genetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Yosef Shaul, Ph.D., Oscar and Emma Getz Professorial Chair and head, department of molecular genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science

Maureen Barr, Ph.D., professor, department of genetics and Waksman Institute of Microbiology, Rutgers University

Nico Marr, Dr.rer.nat., investigator, systems biology, translational medicine, Sidra Medical and Research Center

Carlos Rico, graduate fellow, The Rockefeller University

Roger Nicoll, M.D., professor, department of cellular and molecular pharmacology and department of physiology, University of California, San Francisco

Elly Tanaka, Ph.D., senior scientist, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna

Art Weiss, M.D., Ph.D., chief of rheumatology and Ephraim P. Engleman Distinguished Professor, division of rheumatology, department of medicine, Parnassus director, Medical Scientist Training Program, University of California, San Francisco; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Julius Lucks, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Northwestern University

Andrew Marks, M.D., Wu Professor and Chair, Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons

Piali Sengupta, Ph.D., professor, department of biology, Brandeis University

Toshio Tsukiyama, Ph.D., D.V.M, member, basic sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Jon Clardy, Ph.D., Hsien Wu and Daisy Yen Wu Professor, department of biological chemistry and molecular pharmacology, Harvard Medical School

Supawat Thongthip, graduate fellow, The Rockefeller University

Susan Kaech, Ph.D., Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor of Immunobiology, department of immunobiology, Yale University

2:10 p.m.: Scott Miller, Ph.D., Irénée duPont Professor of Chemistry, department of chemistry, Yale University, Searching for Selective Reactions in Complex Molecular Environments

3:00 p.m.: Jason S. Lewis, Ph.D., director and vice chair, Center for Molecular Imaging and Nanotechnology (CMINT), department of radiology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Click-chemistry for the Imaging of Cancer

4:10 p.m.: Steven C. Zimmerman, Ph.D., Roger Adams Professor of Chemistry, department of chemistry and Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Developing Small Molecules to Selectively Target Repeat DNA and RNA Sequences That Cause Disease: Promises and Challenges

Paul Hertzog, Ph.D., professor and NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow, Centre for Innate Immunity and Infectious Diseases, Hudson Institute of Medical Research, Australia

Stephen F. Altschul, Ph.D., senior investigator, National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health

Igor Stagljar, Ph.D., professor, department of biochemistry and department of molecular genetics, University of Toronto

Clodagh O’Shea, Ph.D., associate professor and William Scandling Developmental Chair, Molecular and Cell Biology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Peter Campbell, Ph.D., head, cancer, ageing and somatic mutation, senior group leader, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute