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Matthias Buck, D.Phil, professor, department of biology, Case Western Reserve University

Gary Hon, Ph.D., assistant professor, department of obstetrics and gynecology, bioinformatics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Don Cleveland, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor and Chair, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research

Nicola Aceto, Ph.D., Swiss National Science Foundation Assistant Professor of Oncology, department of biomedicine, University of Basel

Jesse Bloom, Ph.D., associate member, division of basic sciences, computational biology program, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Tami Lieberman, Ph.D., assistant professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Catherine Grimes, Ph.D., assistant professor, department of chemistry and biochemistry, department of biological sciences, University of Delaware

2:00 p.m.: Zachary Mirman, graduate fellow, Laboratory of Cell Biology and Genetics, The Rockefeller University, Welcoming Remarks

2:05 p.m.: Sidney Strickland, Ph.D., vice president for educational affairs, dean of graduate and postgraduate studies, professor and head, Patricia and John Rosenwald Laboratory of Neurobiology and Genetics, The Rockefeller University, Presentation of the Poster Awards

2:15 p.m.: Richard A. Young, Ph.D., member, Whitehead Institute; professor of biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Nuclear Condensates, Gene Control, and Cancer"

3:00 p.m.: Roel Nusse, Ph.D., principal investigator, department of developmental biology, Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Stanford University; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, "Wnt Signaling Allows Cells to Divide"

4:00 p.m.: Charles Swanton, Ph.D., FRCPBSc, chair, personalised cancer medicine, University College London; group leader, The Francis Crick Institute, "Chromosomal Instability and Genome Plasticity in Cancer Evolution, Immune Evasion, and Metastasis"

Felix Randow, Ph.D., program leader, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology

Carla Rothlin, Ph.D., professor of immunobiology and pharmacology, co-leader of cancer immunology, associate professor of pharmacology, Yale School of Medicine

Raphael Turcotte, Ph.D., postdoctoral research assistant, University of Oxford

John Feldman, director, screenplay, Hummingbird Films

Samantha Morris, Ph.D., assistant professor of developmental biology and genetics, Washington University School of Medicine

Gina G. Turrigiano, Ph.D., Joseph Levitan Professor of Vision Science, department of biology, Brandeis University

Timothy Padera, Ph.D., associate professor of radiation oncology, Harvard Medical School

Alexis Jaramillo Cartagena, graduate fellow, Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, The Rockefeller University

Zahra Fakhraai, Ph.D., associate professor, University of Pennsylvania

Youxing Jiang, Ph.D., professor of physiology, Rosewood Corporation Chair in Biomedical Science, UT Southwestern Medical Center; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Rudolf Pisa, graduate fellow, Laboratory of Chemistry and Cell Biology, The Rockefeller University

Charles Sawyers, M.D., Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Chairman, Human Oncogenesis and Pathogenesis Program, MSKCC

Eros Denchi, Ph.D., Stadtman Investigator, Laboratory of Genome Integrity, National Cancer Institute

Charles L. Sawyers, M.D., Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Chair in Human Oncology and Pathogenesis, chairman, human oncology and pathogenesis program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Richard Blumberg, M.D., professor, Harvard Medical School; chief, division of gastroenterology, hepatology, and endoscopy, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Suzana Herculano-Houzel, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology, associate director for communications, Vanderbilt Brain Institute, Vanderbilt University

Yuhai Tu, Ph.D., permanent research staff member, manager, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, IBM

Sarah Ackerman, graduate fellow, Laboratory of Molecular Metabolism, The Rockefeller University

Ian Butler, graduate fellow, Laboratory of Social Evolution and Behavior, The Rockefeller University

Sean Carroll, Ph.D., professor emeritus of molecular biology and genetics, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Andrew and Mary Balo and Nicholas and Susan Simon Endowed Chair of Biology, University of Maryland; vice president for science education, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Doris Bachtrog, Ph.D., professor, University of California, Berkeley

Amelia Dunn, graduate fellow, Laboratory of the Biology of Addictive Diseases, The Rockefeller University

Sean Carroll, Ph.D., professor emeritus of molecular biology and genetics, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Andrew and Mary Balo and Nicholas and Susan Simon Endowed Chair of Biology, University of Maryland; vice president for science education, Howard Hughes Medical Institute