Ken Poss is James B. Duke Professor of Regenerative Biology and Head of the Duke Regeneration Center at Duke University. He received his B.A. in Biology from Carleton College in 1992, and his Ph.D. in Biology from MIT in 1998 for research with Susumu Tonegawa. Dr.
Tiffany Lowe-Power, Assistant Professor, Dept Plant Pathology, UC Davis, presents "Ralstonia wilt pathogens have evolved to produce biomechanically unique biofilms that promote their rapid spread through plant xylem".
Dr. Lingzhao Fang, Aarhus University, Denmark, presents "The Farm Animal Genotype-Tissue Expression (FarmGTEx) Project for Advancing Agri-culture and Biomedicine".
Marisano James, UC Davis, presents "Twisted wing parasite flight: Things field-procured photographs of 2.3 mm flying Strepsiptera say about the evolutionary history of the order".
Dr. Marcos Simoes-Costa, Associate Professor, Department of Systems Biology and Pathology, Harvard Medical School, presents "Metabolic control of the neural crest epigenome".
Hongwu Chen, UC Davis, presents “Integrated Epigenomics and Transcriptomics Analyses in Revealing Key Regulatory Networks and Therapeutic Targets for Cancer”.