Diana E. Libuda, an associate Professor at the Institute of Molecular Biology at the the Knight Campus of University of Oregon will give a talk titled "It's getting hot in here: mechanisms of temperature-induced transposon mobilization in spermatocytes."
Bradley Dickerson, an assistant professor at Princeton Neuroscience Institute at Princeton University, will give a talk titled "Functionally stratified encoding in a biological gyroscope."
Sarah Jane Hainer, an assistant professor at the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh, will give a talk titled "Nucleosome dynamics and non-coding RNAs coordinate to regulate cell state."
Sadie Wignall, an associate professor in the Department of Biology at the Northwestern University, will give a talk titled "Stabilizing a dynamic structure: Mechanisms that maintain acentrosomal spindle integrity during oocyte meiosis"
Alison Xie, an assistant professor at the Anschutz Medical Campus at the University of Colorado, is holding a talk titled "Glial-neuron interactions in sensory ganglia alleviate the symptoms of chronic pain in mice."
Thomas Hurd, an assistant professor at the University of Toronto, is holding a talk titled "Divide and conquer: how deleterious mitochondrial DNA is eliminated in the germline"
Jason Meyer, an associate professor at Indiana University School of Medicine, is giving a talk titled "Retinal ganglion cells and glial interactions in a human pluripotent stem cell model of neurodegeneration and neuroinflammation"
Yukiko Yamashita, Whitehead Institute Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will give a talk titled "Mystery of gigantic introns in gene regulation and hybrid sterility" The host is John Kim.
PingHsun Hsieh, Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development at the University of Minnesota, will give a talk titled "Evolution and Biomedical Implications of Genomics Variation in Humans" Rajiv McCoy will host.
Mary Gehring, Department of Biology at the Whitehead Institute MIT, will give a talk. Bob Johnston and Joshua Derrick will host.
John Moran, a Gilbert S. Omenn Collegiate Professor of Human Genetics and Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School, will give a talk titled "Studies of a Human Transposable Element" John Kim will host.
Debra Silver, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Cell Biology, and Neurobiology, will give a talk titled "Building our brains: From RNA to evolution" that will be hosted by Bob Johnston.