"Egg Development and Evolution, Inside and Out" Cassandra Extavour, Ph.D.  Professor, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Professor, Molecular and Cellular Biology Harvard University

"How gut microbes enhance enteric virus infection"  Julie Pfeiffer, Ph.D. Professor, Microbiology Kern and Marnie Wildenthal President's Research Council Professorship in Medical Science University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

"How cells form and sense their shape" Amy Gladfelter, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Biology University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

"Transcriptional Regulation of Circadian Rhythms and Metabolism" Mitchell Lazar, M.D., Ph.D. Willard and Rhoda Ware Professor in Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases Director, Institute for Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism Chief, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism Perelman School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania