Jonathan Pritchard, Bing Professor of Population Studies, Departments of Genetics and Biology, Stanford University, presents "How selection, pleiotropy and chance shape what we discover in genome-wide association studies".

Dr. Hasan Khatib, The University of Wisconsin-Madison, presents "Inheritance Beyond DNA: Exploring the Impact of Environment on Epigenetic Modifications".

Perot Saelao, Acting-Research Leader, VPGRU, presents "Advancing Genomic Technologies to Mitigate the Threat of Ticks and Arthropod Vectors Pests".