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
- Irene Chiolo
- 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
- James H. Eberwine
- 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
- Ophir Klein
- 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
- Stephen Cohen
- 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
- Willem Ouwehand
- 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
- Akira Sawa
- 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
- Arturo Alvarez-Buylla
- 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
- Stanislav Shvartsman
- 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
- Yue Xiong