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Sarah Gaffen, Ph.D., Gerald P. Rodnan Professor of Rheumatology, University of Pittsburgh

9:00 a.m.: Mary E. Hatten, Ph.D., Frederick P. Rose Professor and head, Laboratory of Developmental Neurobiology, The Rockefeller University, Welcoming Remarks

9:15 a.m.: Evan Eichler, Ph.D., University of Washington; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Genome Structural Variation, Disease and the Evolution of the Human Genome

9:55 a.m.: Michael Greenberg, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School, How Nature and Nurture Conspire to Control Brain Development and Function

11:05 a.m.: Susan Ackerman, Ph.D., University of California, San Diego; UC San Diego School of Medicine; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Transfer RNAs as Genetic Modifiers of Neurological Dysfunction

11:45 a.m.: Catherine Dulac, Ph.D., Harvard University; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Molecular and Neural Architecture of Social Homeostasis

12:25 p.m.: Lily Jan, Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, From Chromosome Walk to Endogenous Channel Structure

2:20 p.m.: Erin Schuman, Ph.D., Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, The Central Dogma De-centralized: Protein Synthesis at Synapses

3:00 p.m.: Michael Wigler, Ph.D., Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Gender Influences Autism Incidence

4:10 p.m.: Christopher A. Walsh, M.D., Ph.D., Harvard Medical School; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Nucleotides in Neurons: How Somatic Mutations Record a Neuron’s Life History

4:50 p.m.; Steven Siegelbaum, Columbia University, Closing Remarks

Hillel Adesnik, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Neurobiology, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley

Holger Knaut, Ph.D., associate professor, department of cell biology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Jody Rosenblatt, Ph.D., Professor of Cell Biology, Kings College London

Diane Mathis, Ph.D., professor, Harvard Medical School