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Molly Liu, graduate fellow, Laboratory of Neurogenetics and Behavior, The Rockefeller University

Kathy Burns, M.D., Ph.D., professor of pathology, McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Our Conflict with Transposable Elements and Its Implications for Human Disease

Jan Attig, Ph.D., postdoctoral researcher, Retroviral Immunology Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, Degenerate Retrotransposons Increase Transcriptomic Diversity

Miguel R. Branco, Ph.D., senior lecturer, Blizard Institute, Queen Mary University of London, Transposable Elements as a Source of Regulatory Elements in Development and Disease

John LaCava, Ph.D., research assistant professor, Laboratory of Cellular and Structural Biology, The Rockefeller University, Interactomic and Enzymatic Analyses of Affinity Isolated Human LINE-1 Retrotransposons

Jose Luise Garcia-Perez, Ph.D., Chancellor's Fellow, MRC Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, The University of Edinburgh, LINE-mediated Brain Somatic Mosaicism in Zebrafish Targets, Especially the Motoneuron

Iain Martyn, graduate fellow, The Rockefeller University

William S. Ryu, Ph.D., assistant professor, University of Toronto

Libusha Kelly, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Bernard Malissen, Ph.D., Director of Centre d'Immunophénomique, CNRS Investigator, Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille Luminy, In the Lego box of the TCR signaling network... from the list of parts to the assembly instructions.

Thomas J. Kaley, M.D., course director; director, neuro-oncology fellowship program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Sofia Landi, graduate fellow, Laboratory of Neural Systems, The Rockefeller University

Svante Pääbo, Ph.D., director, Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Ancient DNA and Modern Human Origins

David Reich, Ph.D., professor, department of genetics, Harvard Medical School; associate member, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past

Elena Pentsova, M.D., course director; associate director, neuro-oncology fellowship program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Omer Yilmaz, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Padmini Rangamani, Ph.D., associate professor, University of California, San Diego

Charles Carik, Ph.D., co-director, chemistry and chemical biology graduate program, department of pharmaceutical chemistry, University of California, San Francisco

Viviane Tabar, M.D., course director; chair, department of neurosurgery, Theresa Feng Chair in Neurosurgical Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Eliza B. Geer, M.D., course director; medical director, pituitary and skull base tumor center, associate attending, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Marc A. Cohen, M.D., MPH, course director; surgical director, pituitary and skull base tumor center, associate attending, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Sebastian Klinge, Ph.D., assistant professor and head, Laboratory of Protein and Nucleic Acid Chemistry, The Rockefeller University

Yetis Gultekin, graduate fellow, Strang Laboratory of Apoptosis and Cancer Biology, The Rockefeller University

Kenny Breuer, Ph.D., professor, Brown University

In Hae Lee, graduate fellow, Laboratory of Developmental Genetics, The Rockefeller University

John Karanicolas, Ph.D., associate professor, molecular therapeutics, Fox Chase Cancer Center

John F. Marko, Ph.D., professor, department of molecular biosciences, department of physics and astronomy, Northwestern University

Samantha Larsen, graduate fellow, Laboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development, The Rockefeller University

Emmanuelle Charpentier, Ph.D., Alexander von Humboldt Professor and director, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology

Melissa Jarmel, graduate fellow, Laboratory of Cellular Biophysics, The Rockefeller University

Iain Martyn, graduate fellow, Laboratory of Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics and Laboratory of Stem Cell Biology and Molecular Embryology, The Rockefeller University

Andrew Dannenberg, M.D., Henry R. Erle, M.D.-Roberts Family Professor of Medicine, associate director of cancer prevention, The Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine

Ainhoa Perez-Garijo, Ph.D., research associate, The Rockefeller University

Siddhartha Mukherjee, M.D., D.Phil., assistant professor of medicine, Irving Cancer Research Center, Columbia University

Lars Dietrich, Ph.D., associate professor, Columbia University

Andrew Philip Carter, Ph.D., program leader, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, United Kingdom

2:00 p.m.: Vincent Noireaux, Ph.D., professor, University of Minnesota, Cell-free Expression Systems: From the Genetic Code to Synthetic Cells

2:45 p.m.: Yusuke Maeda, Ph.D., associate professor, University of Tokyo, On-chip Membrane-Bound TXTL as Minimal Cells, http://nln.phys.kyushu-u.ac.jp/en/index.html

Bruno Reversade, Ph.D., research director, Institute of Medical Biology, A*STAR, Singapore

Jeffrey Sachs, Ph.D., director, Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University

Matthew Takata, graduate fellow, Laboratory of Retrovirology, The Rockefeller University

Coleen Murphy, Ph.D., professor, department of molecular biology and Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, director, Glenn Center for Quantitative Aging Research, Princeton University; HHMI-Simons Faculty Scholar, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

May Dobosiewicz, graduate fellow, Lulu and Anthony Wang Laboratory of Neural Circuits and Behavior, The Rockefeller University

Ku-Lung (Ken) Hsu, Ph.D., assistant professor of chemistry and pharmacology, University of Virginia

Priscilla Yang, Ph.D., associate professor, microbiology and immunobiology, Harvard Medical School

Bennett Ferris, graduate fellow, Laboratory of Integrative Brain Function, The Rockefeller University

Maria Vicky Moya, graduate fellow, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, The Rockefeller University

Jan Lammerding, Ph.D., associate professor, Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering/Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, Cornell University

Beth Shapiro, D.Phil, professor, department of ecology and evolutionary biology, associate director, UCSC Genomics Institute, University of California, Santa Cruz; professor and investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute