Prashanth Rangan, from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, will present a talk entitled "Launching the next generation: Nuclear and cytoplasmic reprogramming during germ cell to maternal transition."

Polyxeni Philippidou, from the Department of Neuroscience at Case Western Reserve University, will give a talk entitled "Development and assemply of respiratory circuits."

Justin Kumar, from Indiana University will give a talk titled "Graded Transcription Factor Expression Mediates the Choice Between Compound Eye and Ocellar Visual Systems"

Melissa Harrison, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will present a talk titled "Pioneers, settlers and life on the OregonR trail: transcriptional regulation during development."

Liqun Luo, an HHMI Investigator at Stanford University, will present a talk titled "Neurobiology of Drives and Their Competition".

Carlos Carmona-Fontaine, from New York University will present a talk titled "Cooperation among tumor cells is a cancer vulnerability".

Alicia Melendez, professor at Queens College at CUNY, will present a talk titled "Non cell autonomous control of germline stem cell homeostasis."

Shosei Yoshida, a professor at the National Institute for Basic Biology in Okazaki, Japan, will give a talk titled "Extended live-Imaging and modeling the cycle and wave dynamics of mouse spermatogenesis."

James Gagnon, an Assistant Professor from the School of Biological Sciences University of Utah, will give a talk titled "Defending animal development from a hostile world."

C. Ron Yu, an investigator at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research and a Professor at the University of Kansas Medical Center, will give a talk titled "Imprinting, Attention and Odor Perception: How development and learning shape behavior response."