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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

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.: Avi Flamholz, Ph.D., Jane Coffin Childs Postdoctoral Fellow, California Institute of Technology, Studying Microbial Physiology to Predict the Fate of Soil Carbon

11:00 a.m.: Kalli Kappel, Ph.D., HHMI Hanna Gray Postdoctoral Fellow, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Charting the Future of RNA and Protein Sequence-Structure Exploration

12:00 p.m.: Max Wilkinson, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Structure and Engineering of LINE Retrotransposons

2:15 p.m.: Corey Allard, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, Harvard University, Molecular Basis of Sensory Innovation

3:05 p.m.: Rose Hill, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, Scripps Research, Mechanotransduction in Unexpected Places

4:05 p.m.: Josef Turecek, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, Harvard Medical School, Mechanosensation in Freely Moving Animals

4:50 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

Rohit Bhargava, Ph.D., Grainger Distinguished Chair and professor, department of bioengineering, director, Cancer Center at Illinois, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Christoph A. Thaiss, Ph.D., assistant professor of microbiology, Penn Institute for Immunology

Maria C. Jaimes, M.D., vice president of scientific commercialization, Cytek Biosciences

Johannes Morstein, Ph.D., postdoctoral scholar, department of cellular molecular pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco

Yun Ding, Ph.D., assistant professor, department of biology, University of Pennsylvania

Tyler Huycke, Ph.D., postdoctoral scholar, department of pharmaceutical chemistry, University of California, San Francisco

Akiko Iwasaki, Ph.D., Sterling Professor of Immunobiology and professor of dermatology and of molecular, cellular, and developmental biology and of epidemiology (microbial diseases), Yale University; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Evan S. O'Brien, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Molecular & Cellular Physiology, Stanford University, "Characterizing and Exploiting Allostery in G-Protein Coupled Receptors"

Sylvia Cremer, Ph.D., professor, Institute of Science and Technology Austria

Qinheng Zheng, Ph.D., postdoctoral scholar, department of cellular molecular pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco

Amy Shyer, Ph.D., assistant professor and head, Laboratory of Morphogenesis, The Rockefeller University

Alan Rodrigues, Ph.D., co-director, senior staff scientist, Laboratory of Morphogenesis, The Rockefeller University

Michail Tsodyks, Ph.D., The Gerald and Hedy Oliven Professorial Chair in Brain Research, Weizmann Institute of Science

Sara Buhrlage, Ph.D., associate professor, department of biological chemistry and molecular pharmacology, Harvard Medical School

Alan Rodrigues, Ph.D., Co-Director and Senior Staff Scientist, The Laboratory of Morphpgenesis

1:40 p.m.: Jeannine Gerhardt, Ph.D., assistant professor, Weill Cornell Medicine, Consequences of DNA Replication and Repair Defects in Cells with a BRCA1 Germline Mutation

2:10 p.m.: Molly Przeworski, Ph.D., professor of biological sciences and of systems biology, Columbia University, Sources of Germline Mutation in Humans

3:15 p.m.: Simon Powell, M.D., Ph.D., FRCP, chair of the department of radiation oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, The Role of Human RAD52 in Replication-Transcription Collisions

4:15 p.m.: Melody Di Bona, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Collapse of Cancer Cell Micronuclei from Oxidative Stress

Chingwen Yang, Ph.D., director, CRISPR and Genome Editing Center, The Rockefeller University

Rada Norinsky, M.S.MBA, director, Transgenic and Reproductive Technology Center, The Rockefeller University

Nikolas Schonsheck, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Delaware

Kivanç Birsoy, Ph.D., Chapman Perelman Associate Professor and head, Laboratory of Metabolic Regulation and Genetics, The Rockefeller University

Ryan Langlois, Ph.D., associate professor, University of Minnesota

Matthew Reynolds, graduate fellow, The Rockefeller University

Ahmad Nabhan, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, department of physiological chemistry, Genentech

Vanessa Ruta, Ph.D., Gabrielle H. Reem and Herbert J. Kayden Professor and head, Laboratory of Neurophysiology and Behavior; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Joelle Straehla, M.D., Ph.D., instructor, department of pediatric oncology, Boston Children’s Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Tracy Young-Pearse, Ph.D., associate professor of neurology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Noam Shental, Ph.D., associate professor, Open University of Israel

Karen Allen, Ph.D., professor, department of chemistry, Boston University

Kalli Kappel, Ph.D., HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Chi Van Dang, M.D., Ph.D., scientific director, Ludwig Cancer Research; Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Cancer Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medicine

Andrea Brand, Ph.D., professor, department of cell biology, New York University

Elaine Hsiao, Ph.D., director, UCLA Goodman-Luskin Microbiome Center, De Logi Associate Professor in Biological Sciences, department of integrative biology and physiology, University of California, Los Angeles