"Microglia and Neural-immune Signaling Within Brain Circuits" Dorothy Schafer, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Neurobiology University of Massachusetts Medical School

"miRNAs and Alternative Polyadenylation" Marco Mangone, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Biodesign Institute Arizona State University

Amy Shyer, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Cell Biology, Physical, Mathematical, and Computational Biology, Stem Cells, Development, Regeneration and Aging The Rockefeller University

Jurgen Knoblich, Ph.D. Scientific Director Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (IMBA), Vienna

Yunsun Nam, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Biochemistry, Biophysics University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center

Cosimo Commisso, Ph.D. Director Associate Professor, Cell and Molecular Biology of Cancer Program Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Maralice Conacci-Sorrell, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Cell Biology University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center

Kumaran Ramamurthi, Ph.D. Deputy Chief, Laboratory of Molecular Biology Senior Investigator Head, Cell Biology Section National Cancer Institute Center for Cancer Research