Past Speakers

2017

Spring 2017

• Irene Chiolo
  University of Southern California
• Terry Orr-Weaver
  MIT
• Yohanns Bellaiche
  Institute Curie
• Thomas Rando
  Stanford University
• Thomas Duchaine
  University of Montreal
• Dr. Nipam Patel
  University of California, Berkeley
• Naohiro Terada
  University of Florida
• Anne Brunet
  Stanford
• Matt Gibson
  Stowers
• Joan Brugge
  Harvard
• Patricia Wittkopp
  University of Michigan
• Puneet Opal
  Northwestern
• Nadav Ahituv
  UCSF

2016

Fall 2016

• James H. Eberwine
  University of Pennsylvania
• Gabsang Lee
  Hopkins University
• Christopher
  Brown Un. Of PA
• Jing-Ke Weng
  MIT
• Judith Campisi Lawrence
  Berkeley National Laboratory
• Dr. Stephen Helfand
  Brown University
• Stefano De Renzis
  EMBL Heidelberg
• Christian Stehlik
  Northwestern
• Cole Trapnell
  University of Washington
• KiBum Lee
  Rutgers
• Tom Schwarz
  Harvard

Spring 2016

• Gabrielle Kardon
  University of Utah
• Narry Kim
  Seoul National University
• Christian Stehlik
  Northwestern University
• Harry Orr
  University Michigan
• Thirumala-Devi
  St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
• Marcos Gonzalez Gaitan
  University of Geneva
• Amita Seghal
  University of Pennsylvania
• Joan Brugge
  Harvard University
• Peter Park
  Harvard University
• Leslie Thompson
  University of California, Irvine
• Nicole King
  University of California, Berkley
• Rebecca Heald
  University of California, Berkley
• Jeff Coller
  Case Western Reserve University
• Su-Chung Zhang
  University of Wisconsin
• Neal Silverman
  University of Massachusetts, Worcester

2015

Fall 2015

• Ophir Klein
  UCSF
• Erik Sontheimer
  UMASS
• Sangwon F. Kim
  UPENN
• Denim Wang
  Wisconsin Blood Center
• Jean- Paul Vincent
  MRC
• Karen Cichowski
  Harvard University
• Linas Mazutis
  Columbia University
• Anita Corbett
  Emory
• Vamsi Mootha
  MGHHMS
• Ben Voight
  UPENN
• Michael Eisen
  University of California, Berkley

Spring 2015

• Henry Paulson
  University of Michigan
• Beatrice Hahn
  UPENN
• Andrew Lieberman
  University of Michigan
• Mary Baylies
  MSKCC
• Pardis Sabeti
  Harvard
• Michael Shapiro
  University of Utah
• Justin Ichida
  USC
• Lindsey Criswell
  UCSF
• Benjamin Neale Broad
• AJ Marian Walhout
  UMASS, Worcester
• Wallace Marshall
  UCSF
• John B. Wallingford
  University of Texas at Austin
• Vladimir Gelfand
  Northwestern
• Hugo Bellen
  Baylor College
• Laura Ranum
  University of Florida
• Michael Hecht
  Princeton
• Huck Hui Ng
  Genomic Institute of Singapore

2014

Fall 2014

• Stephen Cohen
  University of Copenhagen
• John Condeelis
  Albert Einstein College of Medicine
• Alejandro Sanchez-Alvaredo
  Stowers Institute
• Mark Roth
  Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
• Jianlong Wang
  Mount Sinai
• Greg Suh
  NYU
• Andrew Dillon
  Berkley
• Helen McNeil
  MSHRI
• Jonghwan Kim
  University of Texas
• Matthew Kaeberlein
  University of Washington
• Ken Irvine
  Rutgers
• Sestan Nenad
  Yale
• Karen Hirschi
  Yale

Spring 2014

• Jeffrey Neul
  Baylor College
• Soumya Raychaudhuri
  Broad Institute
• Helge Grosshans
  FMI
• Xi He
  Harvard
• Kevin White
  University of Chicago
• Nurit Ballas
  Stony Brook University
• Tim Ley
  Washington University
• Kathleen Green
  Northwestern
• Markus Landthaler
  Max Delbruck Center for Molecular Medicine
• Steve Finkbeiner
  UCSF
• Adam Auton
  Albert Einstein
• Diane Merry
  Thomas Jefferson University
• Eran Hornstein
  Weizmann Institute

2013

Fall 2013

• Willem Ouwehand
  Cambridge
• Daniela Drummond-Barbosa
  Johns Hopkins
• Zhaolan (Joe) Zhou
  UPENN
• Yi Zhang
  University of Texas at Austin
• Javier Martinez
  IMBA
• Jiandon Huang
  University of Hong Kong
• John Collinge
  University College London
• Gary Bassell
  Emory
• John Dick
  University Health Network
• Anna-Katerina Jadjantonakis
  MSKCC
• Phil Newmark
  University of Illinois
• Ralf Janknecht
  University of Oklahoma
• Sharon Amacher
  Ohio State University

Spring 2013

• Norbert Perimon
  Harvard
• Thomas Paul Zwaka
  Baylor College
• Jerry Workman
  Stowers
• Lisa Goodrich
  Harvard
• David Allis
  Rockefeller University
• Jeurgen Knoblich
  IMBA
• Dennis Kim
  MIT
• Salvador Aznar-Benitah
  ICREA
• Linheng Li
  Stowers
• David Zarkower
  University of Minnesota
• David Pellman
  Dana-Farber
• Ben Ebert
  Harvard
• Ron McKay
  Johns Hopkins
• Howard Edenberg
  Indiana University
• Ren Sun
  UCLA
• Robert Waterston
  University of Washington
• Carl Thummel
  University of Utah
• Duncan Odom
  Cambridge

2012

Fall 2012

• Akira Sawa
  Johns Hopkins
• Max Nachury
  Stanford
• Gordon Keller
  University Health Network
• Joel Richter
  UMASS
• Reuven Agami
  Netherland Cancer Institute
• Sean Morrison
  University of Michigan
• David Kokel
  Harvard
• Itsik Pe’er
  Columbia University
• Steven Artandi
  Greco
• Richard Gardner
  University of Washington Seattle
• Alex Joyner
  MSKCC

Spring 2012

• David Page
  MIT
• Xin Sun
  University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Joshua Mendell
  UT Southwestern
• Jeremy Reiter
  UCSF
• Richard Single
  University of Vermont
• Andrew Belmont
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Cecilia Lo
  Pittsburg University
• Xiang-Dong Fu
  UCSD
• Jay Keasling
  Berkley
• Elly Tanaka
• Bradley Bernstein
  Harvard/MIT
• Sarah Miller
• Gill Bejereno
  Stanford University
• Laurie Boyer
  MIT

2011

Fall 2011

• Arturo Alvarez-Buylla
  UCSF
• Alexander Meissner
  Harvard University
• George Church
  Harvard University
• Hunt Willard
  Duke University
• David Bilder
  UC Berkley
• John Kim
  University of Michigan
• Katrin Karbstein
  Scripps Florida
• Laura Nilson
  McGill University
• LeAnn Jones Salk
  Institute for Biological Studies
• Valter Longo
  USC
• Phil Benfey Duke University
• Mark Krasnow Stanford
• Tim Aitman Imperial College of London

Spring 2011

• Mario Capecchi
  University of Utah School of Medicine
• Brenda Bass
  University of Utah School of Medicine
• Greg Wray
  Duke University
• Terry Lechler
  Duke University
• Peter Doris
  University of Texas, Houston
• Carlos Bustamante
  Stanford University
• Kathryn Anderson
  Memorial Sloan-Kettering Institute
• Tom Maniatis
  Columbia University
• Shaun Purcell
  Harvard University
• David Altshuler
  Harvard University
• Gines Morata
  University Autonoma of Madrid
• Rong Li
  Stowers Institute for Medical Research
• Ben Stanger
  UPENN
• David Kingsley
  HHMI & Stanford University
• Satchin Panda
  The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
• Jonathan Weissman
  HHMI & UCSF
• Robb Krumlauf
  Stowers Institute for Medical Research
• Marc Freeman
  UMass Medical School

2010

Fall 2010

• Stanislav Shvartsman
  Princeton University
• Martin Ignacio Garcia-Castra
  MCDB
• Frank Costantini
  Columbia University Medical Center
• Rob Steele
  UCI School of Medicine
• Robert Darnell
  Rockefeller Institute
• Michael Bassic
  UCSF
• Joann Sweasy
  Yale University

Spring 2010

• Haru Siomi Keio
  University School of Medicine
• Elizabeth Gavis
  Princeton University
• Murat Gunel
  Yale University
• Joseph Yost
  University of Utah
• Jonathan Pritchard
  University of Chicago
• Brad Cairns
  Huntsman Cancer Institute University of Utah
• John Lis
  Cornell University
• Brian Kennedy
  University of Washington
• Steven Henikoff
  Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
• Judy Lieberman
  Harvard University
• Gary Ruvkun
  Massachusetts General Hospital
• Robert Blelloch
  UCSF
• Martha Bulyk
  Harvard University
• Ivan Ovcharenko
  National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Margaret Goodell
  Baylor College of Medicine
• Amy Wager
  Harvard University
• Linheng Li
  Stowers Institute for Medical Research

2009

Fall 2009

• Yue Xiong
  University of North Carolina
• Susan Strome
  UCSC
• Craig Pikaard
  Washington University
• Jeremy Rich
  Cleveland Clinic
• Yuan Chang
  University of Pittsburg Cancer Institute
• Brent Graveley
  University of Connecticut
• Zihe Rao
  Nankai University
• Claude Desplan
  New York University
• Tricia Serio
  Brown University
• David Malkin
  Hospital for Sick Children
• Frank Costantini
  Columbia University
• Michael McManus
  University of California San Franciciso
• William Theurkauf
  University of Massachusetts Medical Center

Spring 2009

• Helen Hobbs
  University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center
• Greg Hannon
  Cold Spring Harbor
• Alan Garen
  Yale University
• Bing Ren
  Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research
• Wei Guo
  UPenn
• Kevin Eggan
  Harvard
• James Haber
  Brandeis University
• Yang Shi
  Harvard
• Nikolaus Pfanner
  University of Freiburg, Germany
• Richard Axel
  Columbia University
• Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz
  University of Cambridge