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"
Kiara Eldred, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Biological Structure at the University of Washington School of Medicine, will give a talk titled "Visualizing progenitor cell trajectories in the developing human retina"
Robert Johnston, Department of Biology Associate Professor, will give a talk titled ""From finish to start: Determining mechanisms that diversify cell fates in nervous systems"
Andrew Gordus, Department of Biology Assistant Professor, will give a talk titled "A can of worms and a tangled web: Unraveling behaviors across space and time"
Pravrutha Raman, a postdoctoral fellow in the Basic Sciences Division at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, will give a talk titled "Evolutionary innovations in eukaryotic histone repertoires drive biological novelties"
Amy Poe, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, will give a talk titled "Developmental Regulation of Sleep & Enduring Memories: Insights from Fruit Flies."
Diego Calderon, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington, will give a talk titled "The continuum of gene regulation at single cell resolution, from Drosophila development to human complex traits"
Corey Allard, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University, will give a talk titled "Molecular mechanisms of sensory innovation"