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Andrew L. Ji, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Pascale Cossart, Ph.D., professor, department of cell biology and infection, The Pasteur Institute

Zev Bryant, Ph.D., associate professor of bioengineering, Stanford University Schools of Medicine and Engineering

Dominic Skinner, Ph.D., National Science Foundation-Simons Postdoctoral Fellow, Northwestern University

Joseph Levin, graduate fellow, The Rockefeller University

Jimin Yoon, Ph.D., postdoctoral candidate, Matthew D. Shoulders Laboratory, department of chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Andrea D. Branch, Ph.D., professor, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Uri Alon, Ph.D., Professor, Weizmann Institute of Science

Daniel Barabasi, Ph.D. candidate, Harvard University

Katherine Richardson, Ph.D., D.Sc., professor in biological oceanography, Leader of the Sustainability Science Centre and Queen Margrethe’s and Vigdís Finnbogadóttir’s Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Ocean, Climate, and Society, University of Copenhagen

Francois Bourassa, Ph.D. candidate, McGill University

Jonathan Abraham, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology, Harvard Medical School, Structural Basis for Alphavirus Interactions with Cellular Receptors

John M. Maris, M.D., Giulio D'Angio Chair in Neuroblastoma Research, professor of pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Elizabeth Campbell, Ph.D., research associate professor, Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, The Rockefeller University

Jialong Jiang, Ph.D. candidate, California Institute of Technology

Robert Farese, M.D., member, cell biology program, SKI Professor, and Weill Cornell Alfred P. Sloan Chair, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Tobias Walther, Ph.D., program chair, cell biology program and Enid A. Haupt Chair in Cell Biology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; MSK Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

David R. Liu, Ph.D., Richard Merkin Professor, director of the Merkin Institute of Transformative Technologies in Healthcare, Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences, department of chemistry and chemical biology, Harvard University; member and vice-chair of the faculty, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

10:00 a.m.: Sohail Tavazoie, M.D., Ph.D., senior attending physician and Leon Hess Professor and head, Elizabeth and Vincent Meyer Laboratory of Systems Cancer Biology, The Rockefeller University, Opening Remarks

10:10 a.m.: Felix Horns, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, California Institute of Technology, Harnessing RNA Export to Monitor and Manipulate Living Cells

11:00 a.m.: Mustafa Aydogan, Ph.D., Sandler Faculty Fellow, principal investigator, University of California San Francisco, Hidden Rhythms of the Cell: Autonomous Clocks in Cytoplasmic Organization and Division

12:00 p.m.: Diane Haakonsen, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, University of California, Berkeley, Stress Response Silencing in Neurodegenerative Disease

2:15 p.m.: Alessandra Ferrari, Ph.D., project scientist, University of California, Los Angeles, Intracellular Lipid Trafficking and Membrane Remodeling in Physiology and Disease

3:05 p.m.: Elias Gerrick, Ph.D., postdoctoral researcher, Stanford University School of Medicine, The Lost Kingdom: Commensal Protists as Modulators of the Intestinal Environment

3:50 p.m.: Sohail Tavazoie, M.D., Ph.D., senior attending physician and Leon Hess Professor and head, Elizabeth and Vincent Meyer Laboratory of Systems Cancer Biology, The Rockefeller University, Closing Remarks

Arezoo Movaghar, Ph.D., assistant professor, department of pediatrics and Center for Artificial Intelligence Research, Wake Forest University School of Medicine

Leslie Diaz, DVM, MPH, DACLAM, director of veterinary services, Comparative Bioscience Center, The Rockefeller University, Introduction to the New Behavioral Core at the Comparative Bioscience Center

Ileana C. Miranda, DVM, M.Sc., DACVP, comparative pathologist, The Rockefeller University, Introduction to the Laboratory of Comparative Pathology and Its High Throughput Slide Scanner

Rexford S. Ahima, M.D., Ph.D., director of division of endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, professor of medicine, public health, and nursing, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Diabetes, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

A. James Hudspeth, M.D., Ph.D., F.M. Kirby Professor and head, Laboratory of Sensory Neuroscience, The Rockefeller University; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Feng Shao, Ph.D., investigator and deputy director for academic affairs, National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing

Srdjan Ostojic, Ph.D., director of research, French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), École Normale Supérieure Paris

Richard Daneman, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Pharmacology, University of California San Diego

Donita C. Brady, Ph.D., Harrison McCrea Dickson, M.D. and Clifford C. Baker, M.D. Presidential Associate Professor, department of cancer biology, Assistant Dean for Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity in Research Training, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine