Sunny Shin, PhD, Professor of Microbiology, University Pennsylvania, School of Medicine, “Innate immune defense against intracellular bacterial pathogens”.
John McHugh, PhD, MBA, Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management, Affiliated Faculty, Columbia Aging Center, “Access to preferred skilled nursing facilities: transitional care pathways for patients with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias”.
Seth Darst, PhD, Jack Fishman Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics, Chemical Biology and Structural Biology, The Rockefeller University, “Bacterial transcription comes full circle: initiation and post-termination”.
John Albeck, PhD, Associate Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Davis, “Visualizing metabolic heterogeneity and its integration with growth factor signaling in living cells”.
Josh Huang, PhD, Distinguished Professor in Neuroscience, Duke School of Medicine, “Genetic dissection of cortical neuron type trajectories: from developmental origin to behavioral function”.
Markus Covert, PhD, Shriram Chair, Department of Bioengineering, Professor of Bioengineering and, by courtesy, of Chemical and Systems Biology, Stanford University, “The E. coli whole-cell modeling project: from simulation to discovery”.
Isa Nunez, Targoff Lab, “Exploring the role of Fibulin proteins in directing cardiac outflow tract development”; and Jack Whiteley, Makinson Lab, “Building a functional thalamocortical circuit from regionalized human brain organoids”.
Vikram Paralkar, PhD, Assistant Professor, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, “Cell-type-specific regulation of ribosomal RNA transcription in hematopoiesis”.