*Tentative schedule – subject to change*

Day 1	Wednesday, June 10, 2026	Location: Memorial Union
2:00-7:30pm	Registration	Main Lounge
4:30-6:00pm	Opening Reception	Great Hall
6:00-8:30pm	Thomas Hunt Morgan Award Ceremony: Judith Kimble Introduced by David Greenstein	Shannon Hall
	Jane Hubbard Keynote Address Introduced by David Katz
	Keith Blackwell Memorial Keynote Address: Malene Hansen Introduced by Danielle Garsin
Day 2	Thursday, June 11, 2026	Memorial Union
7:30am-6:00pm	Registration	Main Lounge
8:00am	Coffee & Light Refreshments	Sunset Lounge
8:30-10:00am	Cellular Mechanisms of Aging and Development, Session Chair: Teresa Lee	Shannon Hall
	Nicole Stuhr, Curran Lab, University of Southern California
	Kevin Wickham, Dillin Lab, University of California Berkeley
	Juhee Kim, Douglas Lab, University of Texas Southwestern
	Juri Kim, Sanabria Lab, University of Southern California
	Rajani Gudipatti, Adam Mickiewicz University
	Fred Koitz, Gordon Lab, University of North Carolina
10:00-10:30am	Coffee Break	Sunset Lounge
10:30am-12:00	Metabolism Regulation and Nutrient Sensing in Development and Aging, Session Chair: Jessica Hartman	Shannon Hall
	Lang Ding, Wang Lab, Janelia Research Campus
	Amy Walker, University of Massachusetts Medical School
	Purbasha Dasgupta, Silva Garcia Lab, Brown University
	Bennett Fox, Schroeder Lab, Cornell University
	Rebecca Butcher, University of Florida
	Keya Daly, Ward Lab, University of California Santa Cruz
12:00-2:00pm	Lunch	Tripp Commons
Concurrent	Shannon Hall	Play Circle
2:00-3:30pm	Proteostasis, Aging, and Neurobiology, Session Chair: Carlos Giovanni Silva Garcia	Cell cycle, cell fate, cell death I: Session Chair: Shijiao Huang
	Glafira Ermakova, Taubert Lab, The University of British Columbia	Amy Pasquinelli, University of California San Diego
	Caroline Kumsta, Sanford Burnham Prebys	Brandon Carpenter, Kennesaw State University
	Richard Morimoto, Northwestern University	Fujia Han, Wang Lab, University of Wisconsin Madison
	Veena Prahlad, Roswell Park	Olya Yarychkivska, Shaham Lab, Rockefeller University
	Tepary Cooley, Purice Lab, Oregon State University	Pablo Lara-Gonzales, University of California Irvine
	Menghao Lu, Mizumoto, University of British Columbia	Jonathan Pickett, Zhou lab, Baylor College of Medicine
3:30-4:00pm	Coffee Break	Sunset Lounge
4:00-5:30pm	Emerging Technologies, Models, and Systems in Development and Aging Research, Session Chair: Jon Hibshman	Shannon Hall
	Madison Mortensen, Watts Lab, Washington State University
	John Murray, University of Pennsylvania
	Bing Yang, (Former McJunkin Lab), Purdue University
	Marian Walhout, University of Massachusetts Medical School
	Han Wang, University of Wisconsin, Madison
	Thomas Hodder, Gill Lab, University of Minnesota
5:30-7:30pm	Dinner - Meet the Faculty Mixer	Tripp Commons
Day 3	Friday, June 12, 2026	Memorial Union
8:00am	Coffee & Light Refreshments	Sunset Lounge
8:30-10:00am	Immune responses and extracellular matrices, Session Chair: Daniel Shaye	Shannon Hall
	Lakshmi Batachari, Troemel Lab, University of California San Diego
	Sara Olson, Pomona University
	Eileen Tecle, Medical College of Wisconsin
	Andrew Chisholm, UCSD
	Max Heiman, Harvard University
	Johanna Jarstorff, Dierking Lab, Kiel University
10:00-10:30am	Coffee Break	Sunset Lounge
10:30am-12:00	Special Session: Organelle and Vesicle Trafficking, Transport, and Autophagy sponsored by Van Andel Institute, Session Chair: Maulik Patel	Shannon Hall
	Bharat Thapa, Patel Lab, Van Andel Institute
	Joshua Meisel, Brandeis University
	Kristopher Burkewitz, Vanderbilt University
	Matthias Truttman, University of Michigan Medical School
	Kerry Kornfeld, Washington University School of Medicine
	Claire Richardson, University of Wisconsin-Madison
12:00-2:00pm	Lunch	Tripp Commons
12:00-2:00pm	GSA Education Lunch Workshop: Teaching with Purpose: Implementing the New Genetics Learning Framework	National Panhellenic Council Room
2:00-3:30pm	Germline regulation, Session Chair: Peter Kropp	Shannon Hall
	Marco Mechan Llontop, Burton Lab, Van Andel Institute
	David Greenstein, University of Minnesota
	Scott Aoki, Indiana University School of Medicine
	Brett Keiper, East Carolina University
	Charlotte Martin, Calarco Lab, University of Toronto
	Aurelia Therese Condomat Zoumabo, Narbonne Lab, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
3:30-4:00pm	Coffee Break	Sunset Lounge
4:00-5:30pm	Genetic Regulation and Small RNAs, Session Chair: Jadiel Wasson	Shannon Hall
	Khlifa Alnaim, Phillips Lab, University of Southern California
	Victoria García Castiglioni, Claycomb Lab, University of Toronto
	Tai Montgomery, Colorado State University
	Long-Wen Zhao, Kennedy Lab, Harvard University
	Kehinde Abayomi, Updike Lab, University of Maine
	Shiela Pearl Quiobe, Sommer Lab, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen
5:30-7:00pm	Dinner	Tripp Commons
7:00-9:00pm	Poster Session 1 (even numbers)	Great Hall, Main Lounge, MGC
Day 4	Saturday, June 13, 2026	Memorial Union
8:00am	Coffee & Light Refreshments	Sunset Lounge
8:30-10:00am	Gene Regulation, Session Chair: Paul Goetsch	Shannon Hall
	Titas Sengupta, Murphy Lab, Princeton University
	Susan Mango, University of Basel
	Monia Reeves, Katz Lab, Emory University
	Gabriela Vida, Sivaramakrishnan Lab, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
	Arneet Saltzman, University of Toronto
	Haoyu Wang, Ercan Lab, New York University
10:00-10:30am	Coffee Break	Sunset Lounge
10:30am-12:00	Stress in Aging and Development, Session Chair: Ben Weaver	Shannon Hall
	Ryan Baugh, Duke University
	Xantha Karp, Central Michigan University
	Arjumand Ghazi, University of Pittsburg
	Faith Carranza Connors, Leiser Lab, University of Michigan
	Yiwei Li, Smolikove Lab, University of Iowa
	Priscilla Van Wynsberghe, Colgate University
12:00-2:00pm	Lunch	Tripp Commons
12:00-2:00pm	Scientific Writing Workshop hosted by GeroScience, featuring Dr. Alex Mendenhal	National Panhellenic Council Room
Concurrent	Shannon Hall	Play Circle
2:00-3:30pm	Cell and Developmental Biology: Session Chair: Kacy Gordon	Host-Microbe Interaction and pathogen resistence; Session Chair: Tina Gumienny
	Ben Weaver, UT Southwestern Medical Center	Vladimir Lazetic, The George Washington University
	Priya Sivaramakrishnan, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia	Buck Samuel, Baylor College of Medicine
	Dillon Gardner, Lu Lab, Cornell University	Khursheed Wani, Pukkila-Worley Lab, University of Massachusetts Medical School
	Jordan Jesse, Shaye Lab, University of Illinois Chicago	Noémié Scheidel, Kim and Fischer Lab, Harvard University
	Emily Mincher, Mei Lab, St. John's University	Michael Shapira, University of California Berkeley
	Milagros Rincon Paz, Bai Lab, University of Florida	Larissa Tavizon, Garsin Lab, The University of Texas Health Science Center
3:30-4:00pm	Coffee Break	Sunset Lounge
4:00-5:30pm	Cell cycle, cell fate, and cell death II, Session Chair: Claire De La Cova	Shannon Hall
	Karen Oegema, UCSD
	Eric Cormack, Cochella Lab, John Hopkins School of Medicine
	Dylan Suriadinata, Wehman Lab, Texas A&M University
	Celeste Gormly, Lundquist Lab, Kansas University
	Mahshid Kalantar Neyestanaki, Ghose Lab, University of Texas at Arlington
	Dongyeop Lee, Horvitz Lab, MIT
5:30-7:00pm	Dinner	Tripp Commons
7:00-9:00pm	Poster Session 2 (odd numbers	Great Hall, Main Lounge, MGC
9:00-11:00pm	Dance with DJ	Tripp Commons
Day 5	Sunday, June 14, 2026	Memorial Union
8:00am	Coffee & Light Refreshments	Sunset Lounge
8:30-10:00am	Gene regulation and Immunity, Session Chair: Mark Pellegrino	Shannon Hall
	Elyse Christensen, Lehrbach Lab, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
	Jonathan Lalsiamthara, Aballay Lab, MD Anderson
	Jessica Hill, Osborne Nishimura Lab, Colorado State University
	Eric Haag, University of Maryland
	Sadie Gaskins, Kirienko Lab, Rice University
	Sara Hopkins, Herman Lab, University of Nebraska
10:00-10:30am	Coffee Break	Sunset Lounge
10:30am-12:00	Mechanisms of Homeostasis, Session Chair: Maria Purice	Shannon Hall
	Rutwik Bardapurkar, Rechavi Lab, Tel Aviv University
	Anne Hart, Brown University
	Carrie Sheeler, Frakes Lab, NIDDK
	Andrea Scharf, Missouri University of Science and Technology
	Kylie VanDerMolen, Dowen Lab, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
	Xiaofei Bai, University of Florida
12:00-2:00pm	Lunch