Dr. Stephen E.P. Smith is a principal investigator at the Norcliffe Foundation Center for Integrative Brain Research and an assistant professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine. He received a PhD from Caltech, where he trained under Dr.
Megan Martik, Assistant Professor of Genetics, Genomics, Evolution, and Development, University of California, Berkeley, presents "Harnessing the regenerative capacity of the neural crest for cardiac repair".
Angelo Forli, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova, Italy, presents "From Social Networks to Neural Ensembles: Neural Mechanisms of Individual and Group Spatial Behaviors".
Jeffrey Farrell, Early Stadtman Investigator and Assistant Professor, Division of Developmental Biology, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, presents "Cell States and Cell Fates During Zebrafish Development".
Paul R. Selvin, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Physics and Biophysics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, presents "Single-Molecule Super-Resolution Fluorescence: Application to Proteins Walking, to Memory, and to Alzheimer’s Disease".
Gino Cingolani, Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics, University of Alabama, presents "Signaling Through Importins: Mechanisms of STAT1 Nuclear Import".
Joel Butterwick, Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, Yale School of Medicine, presents "Sweet Taste of Insects: Sugar Recognition by Insect Taste Receptors".
