Simon Alberti, Professor of the Department of Cellular Biochemistry at the Technical University of Dresden, Center for Molecular & Cellular Bioengineering, Biotechnology Center, will give a talk. Tatjana Trcek will host.

Valentina Cigliola, from the Department of Pharmacology at Vanderbilt University, will give a talk titled 'Innate Mechanisms of Spinal Cord Regeneration'. Erin Jimenez will host.

Thelma Escobar, from the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Washington will give a talk. Erin Jimenez will host