Alan Cowman, AC, FRS, FAA, professor, acting director, WEHI - Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research

Samuel Williams, biomedical fellow, The Rockefeller University

Tobias Meyer, Ph.D., Joseph Hinsey Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, Weill Cornell Medicine

Yael David, Ph.D., assistant member, chemical biology program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Jill Bargonetti, Ph.D., Hesselbach Professor of Biological Sciences, City University of New York (CUNY) Hunter College

Bing Xia, Ph.D., professor, department of radiation oncology, Rutgers University

Janes M. Berger, Ph.D., professor of biophysics and biophysical chemistry, director, Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Paola Arlotta, Ph.D., chair, department of stem cell and regenerative biology, Golub Family Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University, associate member, Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute

Natalie Jones, graduate fellow, The Rockefeller University

Ed Luk, Ph.D., associate professor, department of biochemistry and cell biology, Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University

Karen Miga, Ph.D., associate director, UCSC Genomics Institute, assistant professor, biomolecular engineering department, University of California, Santa Cruz

Grace Lee, Ph.D., assistant professor, ecology and evolutionary biology, school of biological sciences, University of California, Irvine

Ved Sharma, Ph.D., image analyst, Bio-Imaging Resource Center, The Rockefeller University

10:30 a.m.: Elaine Fuchs, Ph.D., Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Rockefeller University, Robin Chemers Neustein Laboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development

Sangeeta N. Bhatia, M.D., Ph.D., John J. and Dorothy Wilson Professor of Health Sciences and Technology and of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Koch Institute for Integrative Research at MIT; institute member, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

2:00 p.m.: Shiho Torii, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, insect-virus interactions, department of virology, Institut Pasteur, Identification of Zika Virus Genes Involved in Mosquito Transmissibility

2:30 p.m.: Thomas Vial, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, insect-virus interactions, department of virology, Institut Pasteur, Mosquito Resistance to Dengue Virus Revealed by Single-cell Gene Expression and Metabolomic Profiling of Midgut and Fat Body, https://research.pasteur.fr/en/member/thomas-vial/

Titia de Lange, Ph.D., Leon Hess Professor and head, Laboratory of Cell Biology and Genetics, The Rockefeller University

Shaul Druckmann, Ph.D., assistant professor, Stanford University

11:00 a.m.: Constantina Theofanopoulou, Ph.D., Senior Research Associate, The Rockefeller University, Neurobiology of social communication: from speech to dance

4:00 p.m.: Tania Lupoli, Ph.D., assistant professor, department of chemistry, New York University, Activation and Incorporation of Rare Sugars into Bacterial Surfaces

4:30 p.m.: Hsin-Che Huang, graduate student, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Protein Folding Stress Potentiates NLRP1 and CARD8 Inflammasome Activation

4:40 p.m.: Nisha Modi, graduate student, Columbia University, Understanding Feedback in Cellular Membraneless Organelles

4:50 p.m.: Jared Ramsey, graduate fellow, The Rockefeller University, Liganding and Allosteric Inhibition of Helicases Using Electrophilic ‘Scout Fragments’

5:00 p.m.: Ronald R. Breaker, Ph.D., Sterling Professor, department of molecular biophysics and biochemistry, professor, department of molecular, cellular, and developmental biology, Yale University; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Modern Riboswitches Reveal Ancient RNA Capabilities and Limitations

10:30 a.m.: Elaine Fuchs, Ph.D., Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Rockefeller University, Robin Chemers Neustein Laboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development

Yarui Diao, Ph.D., assistant professor, department of cell biology, Duke University

Nancy Bonini, Ph.D., Florence R.C. Murray Professor of Biology, University of Pennsylvania

Massimo Vergassola, Ph.D., professor, École Normale Supérieure, director of research, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Charlie Fehl, Ph.D., assistant professor, department of chemistry, Wayne State University

Adrian R. Krainer, Ph.D., St. Giles Foundation Professor, cancer center deputy director of research, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Linas Urnavicius, Research Associate, Rockefeller University

Hendrik Messal, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, The Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI)

Christoph Haselwandter, Ph.D., associate professor, University of Southern California

Eric Fischer, Ph.D., professor of biological chemistry and molecular pharmacology, Harvard Medical School

Begüm Aydin, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, The Rockefeller University, Microbiota-induced cellular plasticity in the enteric nervous system

Carolyn Elya, Ph.D., Incoming Assistant Professor, Harvard University, The last of (fung)us: Neural mechanisms of fruit fly behavioral manipulation by the killer fungus Entomophthora muscae

Michael O'Donnell, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Yale University, Going with your gut: how C. elegans uses chemistry to sense the microbes within

Jason Shepherd, Ph.D., Associate Professor, University of Utah, Viral origins of memory

Elaine Hsiao, Ph.D., Associate Professor, From Bowels to Brains: Deciphering microbiome-gut-brain signaling and relevance to human disease

Begüm Aydin, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, The Rockefeller University, Microbiota-induced Cellular Plasticity in the Enteric Nervous System

Carolyn Elya, Ph.D., incoming assistant professor, Harvard University, The Last of (Fung)us: Neural Mechanisms of Fruit Fly Behavioral Manipulation by the Killer Fungus Entomophthora muscae

Michael O'Donnell, Ph.D., assistant professor, Yale University, Going with Your Gut: How C. elegans Uses Chemistry to Sense the Microbes Within

Jason Shepherd, Ph.D., associate professor, University of Utah, Viral Origins of Memory

Elaine Hsiao, Ph.D., associate professor, University of California, Los Angeles, From Bowels to Brains: Deciphering Microbiome-Gut-Brain Signaling and Relevance to Human Disease

Yasmine Belkaid, Ph.D., chief, metaorganism immunity section, chief, Laboratory of Host Immunity and Microbiome, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health

Elizabeth Villa, Ph.D., professor of molecular biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute