Joan Fallon, PhD.                                          
Chief Executive Officer
Curemark, Inc.
Rye, NY, USA
Title: The Role of Endogenous and Exogenous Amino Acids in the Epigenetics of Neurodegenerative Diseases

Kwanghun Chung, Ph.D.                                        
Helmholtz Career Development Assistant Professor
Picower Institute for Learning and Memory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Title: CLARITY and beyond: tools for integrated brain mapping

Oscar J. Abilez, MD, PhD.
Instructor in Cardiovascular Medicine 
Stanford University School of Medicine 
Stanford, CA, USA 
Title: Optogenetic control of human cardiac cells and tissues

Susan E. Erdman, DVM, MPH 
Director of Comparative Medicine
Massachusetts Institute of technology
Cambridge, MA, USA
Title:Microbiome and tumor environment. 

Silvana Konermann
PhD Student in Dr. Feng Zhang’s Lab
The Broad Institute & 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
Cambridge, MA, USA 
Title: Optogenetic LITE technology

Vijay Antharam, PhD.
Professor of Chemistry
Minnesota State University
Moorehead, MN, USA
Title: How Gut microbiota reduce cholesterol

Serge A. Picaud, PhD.
Principal Investigator
European Vision Institute
INSERM-UPMC Paris 
Paris, France
Title: Translatability of optogenetic visual restoration to blind patients

Edi Prifti, PhD.
BigData Analyst and Investigator
MetaGenoPolis (INRA)
Jouy-en-Josas, France
Title: Alterations of gut microbiome in liver cirrhosis patients

Michelle M. Sidor, PhD.  
Neuroscience Investigator II
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Title: Using a novel optogenetic approach to dissect the neural circuitry underlying bipolar-mania

Susan M. Huse, PhD.
Assistant Professor of Pathology & Medicine
Brown University Alpert Medical School
Providence, RI, USA
Title: Multidimensional taxonomic variability of Pouchitis confounds statistics

Jin Hyung Lee, PhD.
Assistant Professor
Stanford University
Stanford, CA, USA
Title: Real-time optogenetic functional magnetic resonance imaging

Zhiheng Pei, MD, PhD.
Associate Professor of Pathology & Medicine
New York University Langone Medical center
New York, NY, USA
Title: Microbial link to esophageal adenocarcinoma

Matthew Pecot, PhD.         
Assistant Professor of Neurobiology
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, USA
Title: Assessing the contribution of molecular diversity to neural circuit assembly

Sridhar Mani, MD.
Professor Medicine & Genetics
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Bronx, New York, NY, USA
Title: Regulation of intestinal barrier function by bacterial metabolites

Jyoti Mishra, PhD.
Assistant Professor of Neurology
University of California at San Francisco
San Francisco, CA, USA
Title: Reducing neural noise and cognitive distractibility through training

Laurence Zitvogel, MD, PhD.
Research Director of Immunotherapy                                                          
INSERM-InstitutGrustaveRoussy
Villejuif, France
Title: Gut microbiota-dependent antitumor efficacy of CTLA4 blockade

Mehmet Fatih Yanik, PhD.
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering                                  
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Title: TBA

Jacques Izard, PhD.
Associate Professor
Forsyth Institute & Harvard School of Dental Medicine
Cambridge, MA, USA
Title: Preserving the metatranscriptome and metagenome of the human gut

Antonio Riccio, PhD.
Children's Hospital
Boston, MA, USA                                        
Title:TRPC channels: new targets for treatment of anxiety disorders

Aristóteles Góes-Neto, PhD.
Professor CiênciasBiológicas
UniversidadeEstadual de Feira de Santana (UEFS)
Feira de Santana, Bahia, Brasil
Title: Fungal diversity in lignocellulosic coarse woody debris from neotropical rainforests: a metagenomics approach

Brook Chernet, PhD.
Researcher in Biology
Tufts Center for Regenerative & Developmental Biology
Tufts University
Medford, MA, USA
Title:Microbiome:host interaction facilitates long-range bioelectric signaling that suppresses tumor formation in Xenopuslaevis embryos 

Huiying Li, PhD.                                           
Assistant Professor of Molecular & Medical Pharmacology
UCLA School of Medicine
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Title: The human skin microbiome in acne at the strain level

Caitline Brennan, PhD.
Post Doctoral Scientist
Immunology & Infectious Diseases
Harvard School of Public Health
Boston, MA, USA
Title: Fusobacteria in colorectal cancer