9:30 a.m.:
Biafra Ahanonu, Ph.D., HHMI Hanna H. Gray Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, San Francisco, Neural and Molecular Pain Processing in the Spinal Cord and Brain of Awake, Behaving Animals
9:55 a.m.:
Thiago Arzua, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Scientist & Leon Levy Scholar, Columbia University, Inheritable Stress-induced Plasticity: Understanding the Role of Noradrenaline Modulation
10:20 a.m.:
Mariela Cortés López, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Researcher, Weill Cornell Medicine & New York Genome Center, Dissection RNA Regulation in Single Cells: A Long-Read Multiomics Journey
10:55 a.m.:
Maria Fernanda Forni, Ph.D., Pew Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University, Metabolic Regulation of Cell Fate and Function in Mammalian Skin: Implications for Tissue Homeostasis and Aging
11:20 a.m.:
Noa Katz, Ph.D., Stanford Science Fellow, EMBO & Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University, RNA Sensing: Biomolecular Circuits for Gene Therapy
11:45 a.m.:
Edgar Medina Tovar, Ph.D., HHMI Hanna H. Gray Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Mechanisms of Morphogenesis and 3D Cellularization in Chytrid Fungi
1:15 p.m.:
Carlos Mendez-Dorantes, Ph.D., Jane Coffin Childs Postdoctoral Fellow, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Regulation and Mutational Consequences of Line-1 Retrotransposition
1:40 p.m.:
Joan Pulupa, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Columbia University, Using Live Cell Imaging to Uncover Mechanisms of Transcriptional Regulation and Genome Organization in Olfactory Neurons
2:05 p.m.:
Jarrett Smith, Ph.D., HHMI Hanna H. Gray Postdoctoral Fellow, Whitehead Institute, Understanding the Role of Stress Granules in Stress: In Translation and Beyond
2:40 p.m.:
Zuri Sullivan, Ph.D., Stanford Science Fellow & NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Biology, Harvard University, How Infections Make Us Sick: Neuroimmune Control of Sickness Behavior
3:05 p.m.:
Victoria Watson-Zink, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Researcher, Stanford University, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Terrestriality: Exploring Sea-to-Land Transitions in Decapod Crabs
4:00 p.m.:
Erich Jarvis, Ph.D., Professor & HHMI Investigator, Laboratory of Neurogenetics of Language, The Rockefeller University, Keynote Fireside Chat