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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

Alipasha Vaziri, Ph.D., professor and head, Laboratory of Neurotechnology and Biophysics, The Rockefeller University

Peter T. Meinke, Ph.D., Sanders Director and CEO, Sanders Tri-Institutional Therapeutics Discovery Institute

Thomas Tuschl, Ph.D., F. M. Al Akl, M.D. and Margaret Al Akl Professor, The Rockefeller University

Jedd Wolchok, M.D., Ph.D., Sandra and Edward Meyer Director, Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine

Timothy McGraw, Ph.D., professor of biochemistry, Weill Cornell Medicine

Jeff Reich, M.D., CEO and co-founder, Sparian Biosciences, Inc.

Paul Francois, Ph.D., professor, University of Montreal

Sean Morrison, Ph.D., founding director, Mary McDermott Cook Chair in Pediatric Genetics, and Kathryne and Gene Bishop Distinguished Chair in Pediatric Research, Children's Medical Center Research Institute, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Trudi Schupbach, Ph.D., professor of molecular biology, Princeton University

Ruslan Soldatov, Ph.D., assistant attending, department of computational biology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Rickard Sandberg, Ph.D., professor in molecular genetics, department of cell and molecular biology, Karolinska Institutet

Lamia Wahba, Ph.D., assistant professor and head, Laboratory of Non-canonical Modes of Inheritance, The Rockefeller University

Eric Dufresne, Ph.D., professor, Cornell University

Rebecca Saxe, Ph.D., John W. Jarve Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and associate department head, department of brain and cognitive sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Samer Hattar, Ph.D., senior investigator, chief of the section on light and circadian rhythms, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health

Hitoshi Okamoto, M.D., Ph.D., team leader, Laboratory for Neural Circuit Dynamics of Decision Making, RIKEN Center for Brain Science

Alexandru Barbulescu, biomedical fellow, The Rockefeller University

Liat Shenhav, Ph.D., assistant professor, New York University

Rebecca Timson, graduate fellow, The Rockefeller University

Greg J. Stephens, Ph.D., associate professor, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Mei Hong, Ph.D., professor of chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Bowen Tan, graduate fellow, The Rockefeller University

9:00 a.m.: Richard P. Lifton, M.D., Ph.D., president and Carson Family Professor, Laboratory of Human Genetics and Genomics, The Rockefeller University, Welcome

9:10 a.m.: Winrich Freiwald, Ph.D., professor and head, Laboratory of Neural Systems and Vanessa Ruta, Ph.D., Gabrielle H. Reem and Herbert J. Kayden professor and head, Laboratory of Neurophysiology and Behavior, The Rockefeller University, Introductory Remarks, Price Family Center for the Social Brain Co-Directors

9:20 a.m.: Joseph E. LeDoux, Ph.D., professor of neural science and psychology, New York University; professor of psychiatry and of child and adolescent psychiatry, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, Our Four Realms of Existence

9:50 a.m.: Nirao Shah, M.D., Ph.D., professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and of neurobiology, Stanford University, Neural Circuit Mechanisms of Innate Social Behaviors

11:00 a.m.: Dayu Lin, Ph.D., professor, department of psychiatry, Neuroscience Institute, New York University Langone Medical Center, The Neural Plasticity of Innate Social Behaviors

11:30 a.m.: Gül Dölen, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Reopening Critical Periods with Psychedelics: Basic Mechanisms and Therapeutic Opportunities

12:00 p.m.: Jesse Goldberg, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor, Cornell University, Dopaminergic Reward Signals Retune to Social Feedback During Courtship

2:00 p.m.: Orit Peleg, Ph.D., associate professor, University of Colorado Boulder, Physical Computation in Insect Swarms

2:30 p.m.: Mala Murthy, Ph.D., professor and director, Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Neural Mechanisms of Dynamic Social Communication in Drosophila

3:30 p.m.: Daphna Shohamy, Ph.D., director and CEO, Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute; co-director, Kavli Institute for Brain Science; Kavli Professor of Brain Science, department of psychology, Columbia University, How (and Why) Memory Guides Our Decisions and Actions

4:00 p.m.; Daniela Schiller, Ph.D., professor of neuroscience and psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, The Neural Landscape of Social Relationships

5:00 p.m.: Robert Seyfarth, Ph.D., emeritus professor of psychology, University of Pennsylvania, The Social Origins of Thought and Language

5:30 p.m.: Ev Fedorenko, Ph.D., associate professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The Human Language System

Carla Kim, Ph.D., principal investigator, stem cell program, Boston Children’s Hospital; professor of genetics and pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Daniel Kronauer, Ph.D., Stanley S. and Sydney R. Shuman Associate Professor, head, Laboratory of Social Evolution and Behavior; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute