Daniel Semlow, Ph.D., California Institute of Technology:  Mechanisms of DNA interstrand cross-link repair.  Profile

Lu Wei, Ph.D., California Institute of Technology:  Raman-guided subcellular pharmaco-metabolomics for deciphering metabolic control in metastatic melanoma.  Profile

Marcel Bruchez, Ph.D. (Deceased), Carnegie Mellon University:  A new platform for rapid, scalable, renewable assays of emergent viral disease infection.  Remembering Marcel Bruchez

Kate Hong, Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University:  Tipping the balance of the brain: identifying circuit mechanisms of recovery after cortical damage.  Profile

Marcus Cicerone, Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology: Identifying biological basins of attraction with spectroscopic microscopy.  Profile

Scott Owen, Ph.D., Stanford University:  Neuromodulation of human neocortical neurons by oxytocin in the juvenile autistic brain.  Profile

Laura Prolo, M.D., Ph.D., Stanford University: How does the genomic and methylomic landscape of pediatric high-grade gliomas contribute to tumor pathophysiology, treatment response and outcome.  Profile

Megan Martik, Ph.D., University of California Berkeley:  Decoding the regulatory dynamics underlying neural crest control of adult heart regeneration.  Profile

Dipti Nayak, Ph.D., University of California Berkeley:  Using CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing to characterize the role of Archaea in the human microbiota.  Profile

Tomasz Nowakowski, Ph.D., University of California San Francisco: Visualizing and targeting cell types in the human brain.  Profile