Philip Ruzycki, PhD
Assistant Professor Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Washington University School of Medicine “Uncovering the role of H3.3 in retinal development and disease”
Cedric Geoffroy, PhD
Assistant Professor Department of Neuroscience & Experimental Therapeutics Texas A&M University College of Medicine “The Importance of The Age Factor After Spinal Cord Injury: Impact On Axon Growth And Glial Response”
Fabio Demontis, PhD
Associate Professor Department of Developmental Neurobiology St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital “Skeletal muscle aging and muscle-to-brain signaling via myokines”
Danelle Devenport, PhD
Shirley M. Tilghman Professor Department of Molecular Biology Princeton University “Deconstructing and reconstructing planar cell polarity”
Mary Mullins, PhD
Professor and Vice Chair Department of Cell and Developmental Biology University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine “Maternal tales of oocyte polarity and axis repression in vertebrates”
Yang Chai, DDS, PhD
Interim Dean George and MaryLou Boone Chair in Craniofacial Molecular Biology Director, Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology University Professor of Dentistry, Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, and Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC “Mesenchymal stem cell-mediated cranial suture and meningeal interaction in tissue homeostasis and craniosynostosis”
David Strutt, PhD
Professor School of Biosciences University of Sheffield “Molecular and cellular scale symmetry breaking in planar polarity (or why the hairs all point the same way on the wing of a fly)”
Harrison Gabel, PhD
Associate Professor Department of Neuroscience Washington University School of Medicine