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."

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"