Professor and Director, Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology Laboratory, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, Howard H. and Maryam Newman Chair, Salk Institute, USA

 Talk Title:  "Fighting Climate Change with Plants"

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Read more: Joanne Chory

Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology, Founder of the Innovative Genomics Institute, Co-inventor of CRISPR technology, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Talk Title:  "CRISPR: The Science and Opportunity of Genome Editing"

Read more: Jennifer Doudna

Robert B. Colvin, MD Endowed Chair in Pathology and Professor of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School, USA

Talk Title:  "CRISPR-based Technologies for Targeted Genome Editing and Gene Regulation"

Read more: J. Keith Joung

Principal Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard University, USA

Talk Title: "The Genetic Basis of Local Adaptation in Wild Mice"

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Read more: Hopi Hoekstra

Chief and Distinguished Investigator, Cancer Genetics and Comparative Genomics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, USA

Talk Title:  "Big and Small, Tall and Short, Wide and Narrow, and All That Behavior: What’s the Genetics?"

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Read more: Elaine A. Ostrander

Director, Centre for Anthropobiology and Genomics of Toulouse, CAGT, France

Talk Title:  "The Genomic History of the Modern Domestic Horse: A Tale of Ancient Genomes"

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Read more: Ludovic Orlando

Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA

Talk Title:  "The Future of Comparative Genomics: Finding Meaning in Sequence in a Million Genome Age"

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Read more: Elinor Karlsson