Keith J. Fritschie will present his PhD thesis: Identifying spatial heterogeneity in and potential biological consequences of river thermal environments.

From Pattern to Form: How Do Genetically Prescribed Forces Shape Tissues? Tom Jack will host Bing He PhD, Dartmouth College

Signals, Forces, and Cells: Decoding Tissue Morphogenesis. Bing He & Hanqing Guo will host Jennifer Zallen PhD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

Hanqing Guo will present her PhD thesis: To be or not to be: Solving the Riddle of Rho1-mediated contractility at subcellular and multicellular scales.

Digging Deeper to Understand How Soils Respond to Global Change. Tom Jack will host Caitlin Hicks Pries PhD, Dartmouth College.

Too Big Not to Fail: Impaired Genome Homeostasis Drives Large Cells into Senescence. The Amodeo lab will host Gabriel Neurohr PhD, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - Zurich.

Benjamin Wucher will present his PhD thesis: The Consequences of Biofilm Architecture on Vibrio cholera Ecology and Life History.

Composition, Production and Control of a Unipolar Adhesin in Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Ben Wucher/Carey Nadell will host Clay Fuqua PhD, Indiana University.

Grant Gutierrez will present his PhD thesis: Navigating Acceptable Risk: Environmental Justice and the Politics of Ecological Improvement in Puget Sound.

Mechanical Polarity of Epithelial Folding During Drosophila Gastrulation. Bing He will host Yu-Chiun Wang PhD, RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Kobe, Japan.