Nichole Broderick, Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University in the Biology Department, will give a talk titled "Friend, foe, food: mechanisms by which microbes help and hinder animal homeostasis"
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.
Angela Hancock, an Associate Faculty member for the Graduate School of Biology at the University of Cologne, Germany and Independent Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding in Cologne, DE, will give a talk titled "Molecular mechanisms of adaptation to novel environments"
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.
Will Ludington, a Staff Scientist in the Department of Embryology at the Carnegie Institution of Washington and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology at Johns Hopkins University, will give a talk titled "Host-microbiome specificity in colonization of the gut"
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.
Wei Xie, Developmental Biology and Genomics at Tsinghua University, will give a talk titled "Decoding the transcription circuitry when the life begins" Xin Chen will host.
Tatjana Trcek, Department of Biology Assistant Professor, will give a talk titled "Spatial organization of mRNAs: mechanisms and functional outcomes"
Miriam Goodman, Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology at Stanford University, will give a talk titled "Deciphering where and how touch happens". Andrew Gordus will host.
Shenping Wu, a Research Scientist in the School of Medicine at Yale University, will give a talk titled "Cryo-EM as a tool in biomedical research".