Irene Munk Pedersen, PhD Department of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry University of California, Irvine miR-regulation of jumping DNA originated from yesterday's viruses

Colin Parrish, PhD Department of Microbiology and Immunology Cornell University Understanding the emergence of epidemic viruses in new hosts - the cases of canine parvovirus and canine influenza virus  

Junghae Suh, PhD Department of Bioengineering Rice University Reprogramming viruses for biomedicine

"How a successful transposable element rapidly amplifies and diversifies the genome without killing its host or itself." Dr. Susan R. Wessler, Ph.D. University of California, Riverside Dept. of Botany and Plant Sciences

Dr. Kyoko Yokomori University of California, Irvine Department of Biological Chemistry http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=4476

"Host, Germs, and Steel: Salmonella and metal in the inflamed gut.” Dr. Manuela Raffatellu University of California, Irvine Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics

“Extra-nuclear estrogen receptors: Roles in biology deduced from mouse models” Dr. Ellis R. Levin, M.D. University of California, Irvine Department of Biological Chemistry http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=3100

“Plant microRNAs: biogenesis, turnover, and mode of action” Dr. Xuemei Chen, Ph.D. University of California, Riverside Dept. of Botany and Plant Sciences http://plantbiology.ucr.edu/faculty/chen.html

Dr. Markus Ribbe, Ph.D. University of California, Irvine Dept. of Chemistry and Dept. of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=5090

Dr. Timothy A. Chan, M.D., Ph.D. Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York "Molecular Foundations of Glioma - Insights and Lessons" http://www.mskcc.org/research/lab/timothy-chan