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Jeffrey Kahn, Ph.D., M.P.H., Andreas C. Dracopoulos Director, Robert Henry Levi and Ryda Hecht Levi Professor of Bioethics and Public Policy, Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics

Michael Parker, Ph.D., B.Ed. (Hons), M.A., director, Ethox Centre, professor of bioethics, University of Oxford, https://www.ethox.ox.ac.uk/team/michael-parker

Andrew Leifer, Ph.D., assistant professor, Northwestern University

Dawid G. Nowak, Ph.D., M.Phil., assistant professor of pharmacology, Weill Cornell Medicine

2:15 p.m.: Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado, Ph.D., president and chief scientific officer, Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Dissecting the Biological Complexity of Animal Regeneration

3:00 p.m.: Barbara Meyer, Ph.D., professor, University of California, Berkeley, HHMI, X-chromosome Dosage Compensation in Nematodes: A Single-molecule Perspective, http://mcb.berkeley.edu/labs/meyer/

4:00 p.m.: Leemor Joshua-Tor, Ph.D., W.M. Keck Professor of Structural Biology, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, HHMI, Mad About U: Regulating the let7 pre-miRNA, https://joshua-torlab.labsites.cshl.edu/

4:45 p.m.: Taekjip Ha, Ph.D., professor and senior investigator, Harvard Medical School, Boston Children's Hospital, HHMI, Tracking the Repair of Individual Double-strand Breaks and Mismatches in Living Cells, https://ha.med.jhmi.edu/

Robert Darnell, M.D., Ph.D., Robert and Harriet Heilbrunn Professor, senior attending physician, head, Laboratory of Molecular Neuro-Oncology, The Rockefeller University; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Camila Villasante, biomedical fellow, The Rockefeller University

Benjamin Weiner, Ph.D., fellow, Center for Studies in Physics and Biology, The Rockefeller University

Anna-Katerina (Kat) Hadjantonakis, Ph.D., Alfred P. Sloan Chair, developmental biology program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

1:00 p.m.: Anna Marie Pyle, Ph.D., Sterling Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Yale University, HHMI, Structure and Mechanism of RNA Self-splicing Machines: Implications for Evolution, Regulated Gene Expression, and the Targeting of RNA with Small Molecule Drugs

2:00 p.m.: Saurja DasGupta, Ph.D., Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Primordial RNA Assembly: Chemistry, Catalysis, and Compartmentalization

2:15 p.m.: Yang Luo, Ph.D., Sloan Kettering Institute, mRNA Interactions with Disordered Regions Control Protein Activity

3:45 p.m.: Rohit Roy, Duke University School of Medicine, Columbia University, Kinetic Resolution of the Atomic 3D Structures Formed by Ground and Excited Conformational States in an RNA Dynamic Ensemble

4:00 p.m.: Mildred Unti, Weill Cornell Medicine, Highly Efficient Cellular Expression of Circular mRNA Enables Prolonged Protein Expression from Virus-like Particles

4:15 p.m.: Ariel Pourmorady, Columbia University, Olfactory Receptor mRNAs Act as “Selfish” Non-coding RNAs That Enforce Transcriptional Singularity

4:30 p.m.: Shira Weingarten-Gabbay, Ph.D., Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, The Rockefeller University, Systematic Discovery of Thousands of ORFs in ~700 Human Viruses Using Massively Parallel Ribosome Profiling

4:45 p.m.: Madeline Sherlock, Ph.D., New York Structural Biology Center, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Widespread Viral RNA Structures Induce Downstream Reinitiation through Dynamic Ribosome Interactions

Cesar Vargas, graduate fellow, The Rockefeller University

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

Luke Lairson, Ph.D., associate professor, department of chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute

Lily Jan, Ph.D., 2023 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize Recipient; Jack and DeLoris Lange Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco

Eve Marder, Ph.D., 2023 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize Recipient; Victoria and Gwendolyn Beinfeld University Professor of Biology, Brandeis University

Ellen Futter, Prize Presenter and President Emerita, American Museum of Natural History

Amander Clark, Ph.D., director, UCLA Center for Reproductive Science, Health and Education, professor, molecular cell and developmental biology, Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research, University of California, Los Angeles

Rafael Irizarry, Ph.D., chair, department of data science, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; professor, department of biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Surya Ganguli, Ph.D., associate professor, Stanford University

Christopher Willoughby, Ph.D., assistant professor, African American and African diaspora studies program, department of interdisciplinary, gender, and ethnic studies, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

John Ginn, Ph.D., Senior Director, Chemistry, Sanders Tri-Institutional Therapeutics Discovery Institute

Leigh Baxt, Ph.D., Senior Associate Director, Biology, Sanders Tri-Institutional Therapeutics Discovery Institute

Elisabeth (Betty) Nyakatura, Ph.D., Senior Associate Director, Antibody Engineering, Sanders Tri-Institutional Therapeutics Discovery Institute

Josue Regalado, graduate fellow, The Rockefeller University

Ali Brivanlou, Ph.D., Robert and Harriet Heilbrunn Professor, Laboratory of Synthetic Embryology, The Rockefeller University

Zach Mainen, professor and director of neuroscience, Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal

Alison M. Goate, D.Phil., Jean C. and James W. Crystal Professor of Genomics, chair of the department of genetics and genomic sciences, professor of neuroscience and neurology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai