Michael G. Acker, Ph.D.
For training at Harvard Medical School with Dr. Christopher Walsh. Mechanistic analysis of heterocycle formation in the biosynthesis of natural product therapeutics.

Yu Chen, Ph.D.
For training at Harvard Medical School with Dr. Tom Rapoport. Structural and Biochemical Studies of SecA-mediated Post-translational Protein Translocation.

Jessica L. Feldman, Ph.D.
For training at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center with Dr. James Priess. Dissecting the Centrosome Positioning Pathway.

Steven W. Flavell, Ph.D.
For training at Rockefeller University with Dr. Cori Bargmann. Cellular and molecular mechanisms by which short-term memory controls behavior.

Luis C. Fuentealba, Ph.D.
For training at University of California, San Francisco with Dr. Arturo Alvarez-Buylla. Origin of adult stem cell heterogeneity.

Elena M. Gallo, Ph.D.
For training at Johns Hopkins University with Dr. Harry (Hal) Dietz. Mechanisms of TGFß dependent aneurysm formation and progression.

Eugene A. Gladyshev, Ph.D.
For training at Harvard University with Dr. Nancy Kleckner. Recombination-independent DNA homology recognition in Neurospora crassa.

Diana C. Hargreaves, Ph.D.
For training at Stanford University with Dr. Gerald Crabtree. Identification of Regulators of ATP-Dependent Chromatin Remodeling.

Elizabeth J. Hong, Ph.D.
For training at Harvard Medical School with Dr. Rachel Wilson. Transformation of olfactory representations in the larval Drosophila mushroom body.

Iris H. Jonkers, Ph.D.
For training at Cornell University with Dr. John T. Lis. Analysis of the role and establishment of the paused and divergent RNA polymerase II.

Dengke K. Ma, Ph.D.
For training at Massachusetts Institute of Technology with Dr. H. Robert Horvitz. Genetic and neural circuit analyses of C. elegans egg-laying behavior regulated by the oxygen-sensing hydroxylase enzyme EGL-9.

Jeffrey R. Moffitt, Ph.D.
For training at Harvard University with Dr. Philippe Cluzel. Dissecting the Genetic Information in Synonymous Codon Usage.

Shawn R. Olsen, Ph.D.
For training at University of California, San Diego with Dr. Massimo Scanziani. Defining the functions of distinct inhibitory neuron types in cortical visual processing.

Maulik R. Patel, Ph.D.
For training at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center with Dr. Harmit Malik. Molecular arms race driven by conflict between mitochondria and nuclear genomes.

Frank J. Poelwijk, Ph.D.
For training at University of Texas, Southwestern with Dr. Rama Ranganathan. Evolutionary Dynamics and the Design of Natural Proteins.

Gregory W. Schwartz, Ph.D.
For training at University of Washington with Dr. Fred Rieke. Identifying the mechanism and functional consequences of receptive field subunits in mammalian retina.

Julia L. Semmelhack, Ph.D.
For training at University of California, San Francisco with Dr. Herwig Baier. Neural circuits for object recognition in Zebrafish.

Paul A. Sigala, Ph.D.
For training at Washington University, St. Louis with Dr. Daniel Goldberg. Elucidating the Enzymatic Pathway for Heme Degradation in Plasmodium falciparum.

Casimir M. Wierzynski, Ph.D.
For training at California Institute of Technology with Dr. Thanos Siapas. Real-time Tracking and Modulation of Memory Consolidation.