Prof. Jay Hinton, Professor of Microbial Pathogenesis at the University of Liverpool will summarise the evolutionary pathway of invasive S. Typhimurium across Africa, and explain the value of an integrated functional genomic analysis for understanding how bacterial pathogens cause disease.

Prof. Manfred Schartl, from the University of Würzburg, Germany, will talk about the evolution of sex determination and sex chromosomes in fish 

Marc Friedländer, Associate professor at Stockholm University, Department of Molecular Biosciences, will talk about Studying microRNA functions at the single-cell level

Prof. Randall Peterson, Dean, College of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Utah, USA

Prof. Aitziber Cortajarena, Research Professor Scientific Director
Center for Cooperative Research in Biomaterials (CIC biomaGUNE) Spain will talk about Protein engineering for functional hybrids and biomaterials: applications in biomedicine and technology.

Prof. David A. Hafler, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA, will talk about The Underlying Cause of Human Autoimmune Disease

Prof. Vaishali Katju
Program in Evolutionary Biology
Department of Ecology & Genetics
Uppsala University

Prof. Ross Waller, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, UK

Prof. Vladimir Popik , Professor of Chemistry, University of Gerogia, USA

Brigid M Lynch, Associate Professor, University of Melbourne, Australia

J. Paul Robinson, Professor, Purdue University, USA

Luisa Hugerth, DDLS fellow, IMBIM, UU