"Spatial Multi-Omics Driving the Next Wave of Biomedical Research Revolution” Rong Fan, Ph.D. Harold Hodgkinson Professor of Biomedical Engineering and of Pathology Yale School of Medicine

“Studying enteric virus-host interactions in human intestinal organoids” Christiane Wobus, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Microbiology and Immunology University of Michigan Medical School

"Cytoskeletal polymers as cargoes of intracellular transport: the remarkable dynamics of axonal neurofilaments" Anthony Brown, Ph.D. Professor, Neuroscience Ohio State University

"Harnessing basic science to develop new approaches to combat Staphylococcus aureus infections" Victor Torres, Ph.D. C.V. Starr Professor of Microbiology Director, Antimicrobial-Resistant (AMR) Pathogens Program Department of Microbiology New York University Grossman School of Medicine

“Evolution of Energy Landscapes and its Exploitation for Drug and Enzyme Design” Dorothee Kern, Ph.D. Professor of Biochemistry HHMI Investigator Chair of the Biochemistry Department Brandeis University  

“Virus-like intercellular signaling in the nervous system” Jason Shepherd, Ph.D. Jon M. Huntsman Presidential Endowed Chair Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Ben Barres Investigator Associate Professor of Neurobiology, Biochemistry, and Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences University of Utah

"TBD" Clodagh C. O'Shea, Ph.D. Professor and Wicklow Capital Endowed Chair Molecular and Cell Biology Laboratory The Salk Institute for Biological Studies