“The dynamic epigenome – challenges and opportunities for health aging and suppression of cancer" Prof. Peter D. Adams Professor and Co-Director Aging, Cancer and Immuno-oncology Program Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

"The ABC of RNA Editing in Trypanosomes" Ruslan Afasizhev, Ph.D. Professor, Molecular & Cell Biology Boston University Goldman School of Dental Medicine

“Coagulation factor 11 mediates liver- heart crosstalk and protects against heart failure” Jake Lusis, Ph.D. Professor Medicine-Cardiology, Human Genetics, Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics UCLA

“Pathways of Lysosome Dysfunction Across Neurodegenerative Diseases” Shawn Ferguson, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Cell Biology and Neuroscience Yale University

“Chromatin-Associated RNA Decay in Epigenetic Gene Silencing” Danesh Moazed, Ph.D. Professor, Cell Biology HHMI Investigator Harvard Medical School

“Signaling and Metabolic Control of Nucleotide Metabolism” Issam Ben-Sahra, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

“Mobilization of cell structures by microbial pathogens” Matthew Welch, Ph.D. Professor, Molecular & Cell Biology University of California, Berkeley

"Deep dive into glial biology through brain tumor research with MADM, a genetic mosaic system" Hui Zong, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology University of Virginia

Rafi Ahmed, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology Eminent Scholar, Georgia Research Alliance Investigator, Emory Center for AIDS Research

"Brain macrophage transplantation for research and therapy development" Chris Bennett, M.D. Assistant Professor, Psychiatry University of Pennsylvania