Department of Biology

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."

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."