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Aaron M. Cypess, M.D., Ph.D., M.M.Sc., senior investigator and chief, translational physiology section, diabetes, endocrinology, and obesity branch, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health

Deneen Willek, Ph.D., chair and professor, department of cell and regenerative biology, University of Wisconsin

Andras Sziraki, graduate fellow, The Rockefeller University

Bonnie Bassler, Ph.D., Squibb Professor and Chair, department of molecular biology, Princeton University; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Jeremy Chang, biomedical fellow, The Rockefeller University

Johannes Stigler, Ph.D., professor, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Yingming Zhao, Ph.D., professor, Ben May Department for Cancer Research, University of Chicago

Alison North, Ph.D., senior director, Frits and Rita Markus Bio-Imaging Resource Center, research associate professor, The Rockefeller University

Behzad Khajavi, Ph.D., optical engineer, Frits and Rita Markus Bio-Imaging Resource Center, The Rockefeller University

Arjun Karuvally, Ph.D. candidate, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Huda Y. Zoghbi, M.D., distinguished service professor, departments of pediatrics, molecular and human genetics, neurology and neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine; director, Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children's Hospital; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Jorn Dunkel, Ph.D., professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Rachel Green, Ph.D., Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Jonathan Weissman, Ph.D., professor of biology, member, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; member and Landon T. Clay Professor of Biology, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Hermann Steller, Ph.D., Strang Professor and head, Strang Laboratory of Apoptosis and Cancer Biology, The Rockefeller University

Brent Stockwell, Ph.D., professor, department of biological sciences and chemistry, Columbia University

Devany West, Graduate Fellow, Rockefeller

Katy Rezvani, M.D., Ph.D., professor, stem cell transplantation and cellular therapy, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Michelle Monje, M.D., Ph.D., professor of neurology and neurological sciences, Stanford School of Medicine; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Jason Buenrostro, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University, Single-cell Epigenomics and the Regulatory Control of Cells

12:30 p.m.: Ian Maze, Ph.D., Professor of Neuroscience and Pharmacological Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Protein monoaminylation: novel mechanisms of neural development, plasticity and disease

1:00 p.m.: Guoping Fang, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Human Genetics, UCLA, DNA methylation in neural development and disease

Thomas Nowakowski, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California, Genetic, Cellular, and Intercellular Strategies of Human Brain Development

Sarah Teichmann, FMedSci FRS, head of cellular genetics, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge University