Keynote Speakers

Eric-B-Kmiec

Eric.B.Kmiec

Director, Gene Editing Institute, Newark, DE

Title: A clinical approach to non-small cell lung carcinoma using CRISPR-directed gene editing.

Joan Bailey-WilsonKmiec

Joan Bailey-Wilson

NIH/NHGRI, Baltimore, MD

Title:Genome-wide scans of myopia in Pennsylvania Amish families reveal significant linkage to 12q15, 8q21.3 and 5p15.33.

Stefan A. Muljo

Stefan A. Muljo

NIAID,NIH, Bethesda, MD

Title: Engineering fetal-like hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells

Indraneel Mittra

Indraneel Mittra

Tata Memorial Centre, India

Title: On the futility of killing cancer cells to cure cancer

Sinisa Dovat

Sinisa Dovat

Pennsylvania State University, College of Medicine, Hershey, PA

Title: Abstract: Global epigenomic regulation of tumor suppression in leukemia

Robert W. Allen

Robert W. Allen

Oklahoma State University, Oklahoma, OK

Title: A molecular approach to estimate the age of forensically relevant body fluid stains using quantitative PCR.

Marianne J. Legato

Marianne J. Legato

Columbia University New York
NY

Title:The Intelligent Genome: Epigenetics and the Integration of Biological Sex & Gender

Kenneth Kaushansky

Kenneth Kaushansky

Senior Vice President of Health Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY

Title: Thrombopoietin and its Signaling Receptor in Human Health and Disease: A pathogenetic contributor and attractive therapeutic target for several blood cell disorders.

Paul Agris

Paul Agris

Duke University School of Medicine Durham, NC

Title:A unique genetic element in Gram-positive bacteria, tRNA-mediated regulation of transcription, has been successfully targeted with the discovery of small-molecule antibiotics.