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Sarah Gaffen, Ph.D., Gerald P. Rodnan Professor of Rheumatology, University of Pittsburgh

9:00 a.m.: Mary E. Hatten, Ph.D., Frederick P. Rose Professor and head, Laboratory of Developmental Neurobiology, The Rockefeller University, Welcoming Remarks

9:15 a.m.: Evan Eichler, Ph.D., University of Washington; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Genome Structural Variation, Disease and the Evolution of the Human Genome

9:55 a.m.: Michael Greenberg, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School, How Nature and Nurture Conspire to Control Brain Development and Function

11:05 a.m.: Susan Ackerman, Ph.D., University of California, San Diego; UC San Diego School of Medicine; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Transfer RNAs as Genetic Modifiers of Neurological Dysfunction

11:45 a.m.: Catherine Dulac, Ph.D., Harvard University; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Molecular and Neural Architecture of Social Homeostasis

12:25 p.m.: Lily Jan, Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, From Chromosome Walk to Endogenous Channel Structure

2:20 p.m.: Erin Schuman, Ph.D., Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, The Central Dogma De-centralized: Protein Synthesis at Synapses

3:00 p.m.: Michael Wigler, Ph.D., Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Gender Influences Autism Incidence

4:10 p.m.: Christopher A. Walsh, M.D., Ph.D., Harvard Medical School; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Nucleotides in Neurons: How Somatic Mutations Record a Neuron’s Life History

4:50 p.m.; Steven Siegelbaum, Columbia University, Closing Remarks

Hillel Adesnik, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Neurobiology, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley