Julie Cooper, Ph.D. - University of Colorado "Life at the Edge of the Chromosome: Surprising Roles of Telomeres in Safeguarding Genome Integrity"

Stephen Dolan, Ph.D. - Clemson University "Interkingdom Warfare: Fungal-Bacterial Dynamics in Polymicrobial Infections"

Cathy Mendelsohn, Ph.D. - Columbia University "Role of Nuclear Receptors in Bladder Cancer"

- Alicia Bostwick-Galaviz - Usherwood Lab, MICR/IMM - Akshaya Balasubramanian - Sundrud Lab, MICR/IMM

- Nawat Bunnag - Ahmed/Kettenbach Labs, MSB & BCB - Jonathan Kushler - Barlowe Lab, BCB

Andrew Bridges, Ph.D. MCB'17 - Carnegie Mellon University "Decoding Bacterial Gene Function from Brightfield Videos"

Lexy von Diezmann - University of Minnesota "Meiotic Crossover Patterning: From Single Molecule Dynamics to the Length of Chromosomes"

Federico Bernardo Sisti, Ph.D. - Inst of Biotechnology & Molecular Biology of the Natl Scientific / Tech Research Council, Argentina "The Second Messenger c-di-GMP in Bordetella"

Russell E. Vance, Ph.D. - University of California Berkeley "Strategies for Innate Immune Sensing of Pathogens"

* Chris Park, Pioli Lab - MICR/IMM * Hanna Degefu, Rosato Lab - MICR/IMM