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Edith Heard, Ph.D., director general, European Molecular Biology Laboratory

Fraser Glickman, Ph.D., director, Fisher Drug Discovery Resource Center, The Rockefeller University

Gabriel D. Victora, Ph.D., Laurie and Peter Grauer Associate Professor and head, Laboratory of Lymphocyte Dynamics, The Rockefeller University

Amanda Shilton, graduate fellow, The Rockefeller University

David Knowles, Ph.D., assistant professor, Columbia University; core faculty member, New York Genome Center

Thomas Carroll, Ph.D., director of bioinformatics, The Rockefeller University

Felipe d'Andrea, biomedical fellow, The Rockefeller University

OiYan Poon, Ph.D., Senior Research Fellow for Education Equity at the NAACP LDF Thurgood Marshall Institute and co-director of the College Admissions Futures Co-Laborative (CAF Co-Lab)., NAACP LDF Thurgood Marshall Institute and College Admissions Futures Co-Laborative (CAF Co-Lab)

Angela Koehler, Ph.D., associate professor, biological engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

David Solecki, Ph.D., faculty member, department of developmental neurobiology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Hyejin Kim, graduate fellow, The Rockefeller University

Brigid Maloney, graduate fellow, The Rockefeller University

9:30 a.m.: Biafra Ahanonu, Ph.D., HHMI Hanna H. Gray Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, San Francisco, Neural and Molecular Pain Processing in the Spinal Cord and Brain of Awake, Behaving Animals

9:55 a.m.: Thiago Arzua, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Scientist & Leon Levy Scholar, Columbia University, Inheritable Stress-induced Plasticity: Understanding the Role of Noradrenaline Modulation

10:20 a.m.: Mariela Cortés López, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Researcher, Weill Cornell Medicine & New York Genome Center, Dissection RNA Regulation in Single Cells: A Long-Read Multiomics Journey

10:55 a.m.: Maria Fernanda Forni, Ph.D., Pew Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University, Metabolic Regulation of Cell Fate and Function in Mammalian Skin: Implications for Tissue Homeostasis and Aging

11:20 a.m.: Noa Katz, Ph.D., Stanford Science Fellow, EMBO & Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University, RNA Sensing: Biomolecular Circuits for Gene Therapy

11:45 a.m.: Edgar Medina Tovar, Ph.D., HHMI Hanna H. Gray Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Mechanisms of Morphogenesis and 3D Cellularization in Chytrid Fungi

1:15 p.m.: Carlos Mendez-Dorantes, Ph.D., Jane Coffin Childs Postdoctoral Fellow, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Regulation and Mutational Consequences of Line-1 Retrotransposition

1:40 p.m.: Joan Pulupa, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Columbia University, Using Live Cell Imaging to Uncover Mechanisms of Transcriptional Regulation and Genome Organization in Olfactory Neurons

2:05 p.m.: Jarrett Smith, Ph.D., HHMI Hanna H. Gray Postdoctoral Fellow, Whitehead Institute, Understanding the Role of Stress Granules in Stress: In Translation and Beyond

2:40 p.m.: Zuri Sullivan, Ph.D., Stanford Science Fellow & NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Biology, Harvard University, How Infections Make Us Sick: Neuroimmune Control of Sickness Behavior

3:05 p.m.; Victoria Watson-Zink, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Researcher, Stanford University, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Terrestriality: Exploring Sea-to-Land Transitions in Decapod Crabs

4:00 p.m.: Erich Jarvis, Ph.D., Professor & HHMI Investigator, Laboratory of Neurogenetics of Language, The Rockefeller University, Keynote Fireside Chat

Alex Stuart, graduate fellow, The Rockefeller University

Heather Snell, Associate Research Scientist, Yale School of Medicne

Simona Giunta, associate professor, University of Rome Sapienza