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12:15 p.m.: Takehiko Kobayashi, Ph.D., professor, department of biological sciences, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Bioscience, The University of Tokyo, rDNA Stability and Cellular Senescence

1:00 p.m.: Akira Shinohara, Ph.D., MSc, professor, Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University, Cleavage-independent Pathway for Cohesin Release During Prophase-I

1:45 p.m.: Alain Nicolas, Ph.D., CNRS Research Director, Institut Curie, Mutome 2.0

Carl Modes, Ph.D., group leader, Max Planck Institute

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

Sindy Tang, Ph.D., assistant professor, Stanford University

Martin Pomper, M.D., Ph.D., Henry N. Wagner Professor, department of radiology, The Johns Hopkins University

Isaiah J. Fidler, Ph.D., D.V.M., R. E. “Bob” Smith Distinguished Chair in Cell Biology; professor, department of cancer biology and department of urology; director, Cancer Metastasis Research Laboratory, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, The Challenge of Treating Organ Specific Metastasis

Shahin Rafii, M.D., Weill Cornell Medicine, Vascular Niche Induces Generation of Tumor Initiating Cells

Sohail Tavazoie, M.D., Ph.D., The Rockefeller University, Cell-type Specific Ribosome Tagging in the Tumor Microenvironment as a Means of Identifying Metastatic Genes and Processes

Maja Oktay, M.D., Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Mechanisms of Metastasis of Breast Cancer and Their Consequences for Optimizing Treatment

Christine Iacobuzio-Donahue, M.D., Ph.D., Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

José Baselga, M.D., Ph.D., Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Andy Minn, M.D., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, Endogenous RNA DAMPs and Pattern Recognition Receptor Signaling in the Tumor Microenvironment

David Spector, Ph.D., Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Long Non-coding RNAs as Therapeutic Targets in Metastatic Breast Cancer

Emily Bernstein, Ph.D., Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Epigenetic Players of Metastatic Melanoma

Mikala Egeblad, Ph.D., Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, The Functions of Neutrophil Extracellular Traps in Regulating Awakening from Dormancy

Julio Aguirre-Ghiso, Ph.D., Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Mechanisms of Early Cancer Cell Dissemination, Dormancy, and Metastasis

Craig Thompson, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Michel Sadelain, M.D., Ph.D., Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Sten Linnarsson, Ph.D., professor, department of medical biochemistry and biophysics, Karolinska Institutet

Aparna Baskaran, Ph.D., assistant professor of physics, Brandeis University

Sriram Subramaniam, Ph.D., senior investigator, National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Geraldine Seydoux, Ph.D., Sheldon Professor of Medical Discovery, department of molecular biology and genetics, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Nir Yosef, Ph.D., assistant professor, department of electrical engineering and computer science center for computational biology, University of California, Berkeley

Ilya Finkelstein, Ph.D., assistant professor, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Molecular Biosciences

Demian Battaglia, Ph.D., faculty member and CNRS Research Scientist, Institute for Systems Neuroscience

Betty Diamond, M.D., professor and head, Center for Autoimmune, Musculoskeletal and Hematopoietic Diseases, The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research

Vamsi Mootha, M.D., professor of systems biology and of medicine, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, institute member, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Rhonda Kost, M.D., clinical research officer, Center for Clinical and Translational Science, The Rockefeller University

Sean McKenzie, graduate fellow, The Rockefeller University

Mark Krasnow, M.D., Ph.D., professor, department of biochemistry, executive director, Vera Moulton Wall Center for Pulmonary Vascular Disease, Stanford University; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute