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8:50 a.m.: Mariana Wolfner, Ph.D., Cornell University, Nature and Functions of Seminal Proteins in Mosquitoes and Fruit Flies

8:50 a.m.: Laura Harrington, Ph.D., Cornell University, Mosquito Vector Mating, Host Interactions and Pathogen Transmission Dynamics

8:50 a.m.: Nicolas Buchon, Ph.D., Cornell University, From Immunity to Epithelial Repair, a (Mid)gut Feeling of Mosquito Physiology

8:50 a.m.: Philipp Messer, Ph.D., Cornell University, Genetic Manipulation of Entire Populations with CRISPR Gene Drives

11:00 a.m.: Courtney Murdock, M.D., Ph.D., Cornell University, Estimating Vector-borne Disease Transmission in a Variable Environment

11:00 a.m.: Megan Greischar, Ph.D., Cornell University, The Impact of Ecology across Scales on Parasite Trait Evolution

11:00 a.m.: Laura Kirkman, M.D., Weill Cornell, Antigenic Variation in the Malaria Parasite and Pregnancy Associated Malaria

11:00 a.m.: Bjorn Kafsack, Ph.D., Weill Cornell, Metabolic Regulation of Sexual Differentiation in Malaria Parasites

11:00 a.m.; Manuel Ruiz Aravena, Ph.D., Cornell University, Spillover and Emergence of Zoonotic Bat-borne Viruses: Ecology and Prevention

2:00 p.m.: Jenny Yang, M.D., Ph.D., Weill Cornell, COVID-19 Infection and Vaccination in Pregnancy

2:00 p.m.: Heidi Stuhlmann, Ph.D., Weill Cornell, Impact of SARS-CoV-2 on the Placenta

2:00 p.m.: Robert Schwartz, M.D., Ph.D., Weill Cornell, The Landscape of Host Responses and Disease Pathology in SARS-CoV-2 Infection

2:00 p.m.: Shuibing Chen, Ph.D., Weill Cornell, hPSC-derived Organoids to Study SARS-CoV-2

9:30 a.m.: Marco Seandel, M.D., Ph.D., Weill Cornell Medicine, Deleterious Genomic Variants Arising in Male Germline Stem Cells and Potential Mutagenic Effects of Systemic Pathogens

9:30 a.m.: Renato Santana de Aguiar, Ph.D., Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Identification of Host and Virus Factors Associated to Congenital Zika Syndrome

9:30 a.m.: Laura Riley, M.D., Ph.D., Weill Cornell Medicine, Clinical Implications of Zika: The Newest Teratogen

9:30 a.m.: Shuibing Chen, Ph.D., Weill Cornell Medicine, Trophectoderm: The Route of Mother-to-fetus Zika Virus Infection

Ron Kopito, Ph.D., Professor of Biology, Stanford University

Gord Fishell, Ph.D., professor of neurobiology, Harvard Medical School

Max Welling, Ph.D., professor of computer science, University of Amsterdam