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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

Eva Nogales, Ph.D., professor, biochemistry, biophysics and structural biology, University of California, Berkeley

9:35 a.m.: Mary E. Hatten, Ph.D., The Rockefeller University, Welcoming Remarks

9:45 a.m.: Clay Armstrong, M.D., University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Sodium and Potassium Permeability and the Impulse in the Footsteps of Hodgkin and Huxley

10:20 a.m.: Eric Gouaux, Ph.D., Vollum Institute of Oregon Health & Science University; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ionotropic Glutamate Receptors: Principles of Architecture and Mechanism

11:15 a.m.: Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, Ph.D., Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Uncovering the Organelle Interactome: Dynamic Imaging of Organelles at High Spatial-Temporal Resolution

11:50 a.m.: Xiaowei Zhuang, Ph.D., Harvard University; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Illuminating Neurobiology at the Nanoscale and Systems Scale Using Single-Molecule and Super-Resolution Imaging

1:30 p.m.: Fritjof Helmchen, Ph.D., University of Zurich, Mesoscale Brain Dynamics During Tactile Discrimination Behavior

2:05 p.m.: Krishna Shenoy, Ph.D., Stanford University; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Brain-Machine Interfaces: From Basic Science and Engineering to Clinical Trials

2:40 p.m.: Karel Svoboda, Ph.D., Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Neural Circuits Underlying Motor Planning

3:35 p.m.; Wade Regehr, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School, Short-Term Synaptic Plasticity

4:10 p.m.: Clara Franzini-Armstrong, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, AFH: Structure Function Correlations in Excitation Contraction Coupling and their Sequel

4:45 p.m.: Malcolm Irving, Ph.D., King’s College London, Muscle Contraction: Sliding Filaments, Cross-Bridges and Regulation

5:20 p.m.: Thomas Jessell, Ph.D., Columbia University; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Closing Remarks

Amy S. Gladfelter, Ph.D., associate professor, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Fabian Kiessling, M.D., chair of experimental molecular imaging, University of Aachen (RWTH), Germany

Todd R. Golub, M.D., professor of pediatrics, Harvard Medical School; Charles A. Dana Investigator in Human Cancer Genetics, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; director, cancer program, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Philip Cole, M.D., Ph.D., professor, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Wolfgang Ganter, artist

Kathleen Stebe, Ph.D., Richer and Elizabeth Goodwin Professor of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Pennsylvania

Anna Pyle, Ph.D., William Edward Gilbert Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, professor of chemistry, Yale University; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Rachel Wilson, Ph.D., Martin Family Professor of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Markus Stoffel, M.D., Ph.D., professor, Head of Laboratory of Metabolic Diseases, Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zürich

David E. Cohen, M.D., Ph.D., division chief of gastroenterology and hepatology center for liver disease, department of medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine

Joan A. Steitz, Ph.D., Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute