Anita Bhattacharyya, PhD
Associate Professor Department of Cell and Regenerative Biology University of Wisconsin School of Medicine, Waisman Center “Neurodevelopment and neurodegeneration in Down syndrome”
Andy Groves, PhD
Professor and Vivian L. Smith Endowed Chair Department of Neuroscience Baylor College of Medicine Incoming Head of the Department of Developmental Biology for the Washington University School of Medicine “Can we restore hearing by reprogramming the cochlea?”
Timothy Cox, PhD
Professor Departments or Oral & Craniofacial Sciences, and Pediatrics University of Missouri-Kansas City “Understanding risk, penetrance and variability of facial birth defects using animal models and quantitative high-resolution 3D imaging”
Qian Wang, PhD
Assistant Professor Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Washington University School of Medicine “The diversity of fibroblast growth factor (FGF) signaling in eye development”
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
Princeton
Mary Mullins, PhD
Yang Chai, PhD
David Strutt, PhD
Professor School of Biosciences University of Sheffield