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”.
Christopher Baldassano, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Columbia University, “Using prior knowledge to build neural representations, make predictions, and encode memories”.
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”.