CEB-2025 Speakers



Keynote Speakers

Marcus E. Peter, Ph.D.

Tom D. Spies Professor of Cancer Metabolism, Dept. Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL

Marcus E. Peter
Illana Gozes, Ph.D.

Director, Elton Lab. for Molecular Neuroendocrinology, Department of Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Illana Gozes
Wen-Xing Ding, Ph.D.

William Warner Abercrombie Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutics, The University of Kansas Medical Center, KS

Wen-Xing Ding
Myriam Gorospe, Ph.D.

Chief, Laboratory of Genetics and Genomics, National Institute on Aging Intramural Research Program, NIH, Baltimore, MD


Myriam Gorospe
Vojo Deretic, Ph.D.

Distinguished Professor and Director, Autophagy, Inflammation and Metabolism Center, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, NM


Vojo Deretic
M. Cristina Cardoso, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Biology, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany



M. Cristina Cardoso
Mulchand S. Patel, Ph.D.

SUNY Distinguished Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences,University at Buffalo, NY


Mulchand S. Patel
Celeste M. Nelson, Ph.D.

Wilke Family Professor in Bioengineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ



Celeste M. Nelson
Thomas J. Webster, Ph.D.

Hebei University of Technology, China; Division of Pre-College and Undergraduate Studies, Brown University, Boston, MA


Thomas J. Webster

Featured Speakers

Sebastian Oltean, MBBS, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Clinical and Biomedical Sciences, University of Exeter Medical School, UK


Sebastian Oltean
Sushant Bhatnagar, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL

Sushant Bhatnagar
Abul Hassan Samee, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Integrative Physiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX


Abul Hassan Samee
Sayem Miah, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, WPRCI, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR

Sayem Miah
Alys Peisley, Ph.D.

Assistant Research Scientist, Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Alys Peisley
Francesca Zappa, Ph.D.

Senior Scientist I, Altos Labs Bay Area Institute of Science, Altos Labs, Inc., San Francisco, CA

Francesca Zappa
Kai Yang, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN

Kai Yang
Padmanabhan Pattabiraman, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN

Padmanabhan Pattabiraman
Xinxin Song, M.D., Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX

Xinxin Song
Xianzun Tao, Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Xianzun Tao
Jie Xu, M.D., Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Hematopathology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

Jie Xu
George Fu-Cheng Liang, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Midwestern State University, Wichita Falls, TX

George Fu-Cheng Liang
Nouf Laqtom, Ph.D.

Bioscience Program, Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering Division, King Abdullah Univ. of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia

Nouf Laqtom
Je-Hyun Yoon, Ph.D.

Associate Professor,
Department of Oncology Science,
University of Oklahoma,
Oklahoma City, OK


Je-Hyun Yoon
G.W. Gant Luxton, Ph.D.

Principal Investigator, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Davis, CA

G.W. Gant Luxton
Peter Zage, M.D., Ph.D.

Associate Professor-in-Residence, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Hematology/Oncology, University of California San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, CA

Peter Zage
Yong Sun Lee, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Cancer Biomedical Science, Graduate School of Cancer Science and Policy, National Cancer Center, South Korea

Yong Sun Lee
James Chappell, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Biosciences Department, Rice University, Houston, TX

James Chappell
Taeyoung Hwang, Ph.D.

Investigator, Lieber Institute for Brain Development, Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

Taeyoung Hwang

Young Researchers

Alessandra Dall'agnese
Alessandra Dall'agnese, Ph.D.

Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA

Prithviraj Rajebhosale
Prithviraj Rajebhosale, Ph.D.

Section on Genetics of Neuronal Signaling, NINDS, NIH, Bethesda, MD

Muhammad Tahir
Muhammad Tahir, Ph.D.

Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, New York Medical College, NY