Pamela Silver, PhD.
Elliot T and Onie H. Adams Professor
Wyss Institute &Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, USA
Title: Programming Biology for Health and Sustainability

HiddeL. Ploegh, PhD.          
Professor of Biology& Member
Whitehead Institute-Mass. Inst. of Technology
Cambridge, MA, USA
Title: TBA
Title:Protein quality control and mouse monoclonal antibodies

Alfred Goldberg, PhD.                    
Professor of Cell Biology                   
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, USA
Title: Ubiquitin proteasome pathway system

Erik Sontheimer, PhD.
Professor of Molecular Medicine
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Worcester, MA, USA
Title:CRISPRs and genome editing

Alan D. D'Andrea, MD.               
The Fuller-American Cancer Society Professor
Dana-Farber Cancer Inst. &Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, USA
Title: Targeting Ubiquitin pathways in cancer therapy

Timothy K. Lu, MD., PhD.               
Associate Professor of Electrical Engg.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA, USA
Title: Massively parallel combinatorial genetics in bacteria and humans

Michael Strano, PhD. 
Professor of Chemical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA, USA
Title: Synthetic antibodies

J. Chad Brenner, PhD.
Assistant Professor of Surgery
University of Michigan Medical School
Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Title: TBA

Gali Prag, PhD.                                             
Principal Investigatorof Biochemistry s, 
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv, 69978, Israel
Title: Novel genetic and structural approaches to elucidate the mechanisms for interpretation of the ubiquitin signal 

Alfonso Jaramillo, PhD.                  
Professor of Synthetic Biology
University of Warwick, Coventry, UK &
Instt. of Sys. &Synthetic Biology, Evry, France
Title: TBA

James A. Olzmann, PhD.                            
Assistant Professorof Toxicology
University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, USA
Title:Role of ubiquitin in the dynamic adaptation of lipid droplet and autophagy

Wei-Leong Chew,
PhD student    in Genetics
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, USA
Title:Precise genome engineering in adult mice

Jeffrey D. Parvin, MD, PhD.            
Louis Levy Professor for Cancer
The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH, USA
Title: Bookmark ubiquitination of promoter chromatin during mitosis marks active genes in early G1 phase of the cell cycle

Wataru Fujii, PhD.                                        
Assistant ProfessorApplied Genetics
University of Tokyo,
Tokyo, Japan
Title:Efficient generation of genome-modified mice by CRISPR/Cas

Xiaohong (Mary) Zhang, PhD.                                
Associate Professorof Pathology & Cell Biology
University of South Florida
Tampa, FL, USA
Title:HDAC6 as a deacetylase and E3 ligase

Dr. Takuya Tsubota    
Researcher from the Lab of Dr. Hideki SEZUTSU
National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences
Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
Title:PITCh system - a novel technology for easy and highly efficient gene knock-in

Richard L. Frock, PhD.
Fellow in Genetics at Harvard Medical School
Children's Hospital Boston
Boston MA 02115, USA 
Title: Double strand break detection with engineered nuclease