Diana Hilbert will present her PhD thesis: Taking out the Trash: Accurate Chromosome Segregation in Drosophila Oocytes Depends on Basal Autophagy During Meiotic Prophase.

Erin Lane will present her PhD thesis: The Agricultural Contribution to the Land Carbon Sink in Northern New England.

Luke Fannin will present his PhD thesis: C4 Grasslands and Hominin Paleoecology: Comparative, Functional, and Evolutionary Perspectives.

Zihan Meng will present her PhD thesis: Unraveling How Oocyte Aging Compromises the Fidelity of Meiotic Chromosome Segregation.

Decoding Maternal mRNAs from Molecules to Phenotypes. Amelia Kim & Erik Griffin will host Sean P. Ryder PhD, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School.

Amelia J. Kim will present her PhD thesis: The Role of Polo-like Kinase in Polarizing Germline Determinants in the C. elegans Zygote.

What are the Cellular Mechanisms of Myelin Formation, Dynamics, and Disease? Xhoela Bame & Robert Hill will host Bradley Zuchero PhD, Stanford University.

Xhoela Bame will present her PhD thesis: Mitochondrial Network Expansion and Loss During Oligodendrocyte Life and Death.

Between a Bug and a Hard Place: Global Challenges in the Control of Vector-borne Diseases. Emily Behrman will host Louisa Messenger PhD, University of Nevada - Las Vegas.

Catherine K. Miller will present her PhD thesis: Functional Analysis of the Primate Knee and its Implications for Hominin Bipedal Mechanics.