Eiman Abdel-Azim, Ph.D.
For training at Columbia University with Dr. Thomas Jessell. Spinal circuits for skilled forelimb movement.

Joshua J. Bayes, Ph.D.
For training at the University of California, Berkeley with Dr. Abby Dernburg. An evolutionary framework for understanding meiotic processes.

Alicia A. Bicknell, Ph.D.
For training at the University of Massachusetts with Dr. Melissa Moore. TASeD at the synapse: Understanding the role of translation-dependent mRNA degradation in controlling dendritic protein production.

Stephen G. Brohawn, Ph.D.
For training at The Rockefeller University with Dr. Roderick MacKinnon. The structural and functional basis of resting membrane potential generation and modulation by two-pore domain potassium ion channels.

Jeremiah Y. Cohen, Ph.D.
For training at Harvard University with Dr. Naoshige Uchida. Dopamine neural circuits in decision making.

Evan H. Feinberg, Ph.D.
For training at Harvard University with Dr. Markus Meister. How the brain reads the retinal code.

Walter M. Fischler, Ph.D.
For training at Columbia University with Dr. Richard Axel. Determine how olfactory representations in the lateral entorhinal cortex are used by the dorsal hippocampus to form odor-place assocations in memory.

Lillian K. Fritz-Laylin, Ph.D.
For training at the University of California, San Francisco with Dr. R. Dyche Mullins. Characterization of novel cell motility genes identified via phylogenetic profiling.

Eric L. Greer, Ph.D.
For training at Harvard Medical School with Dr. Yang Shi. Identifying the mechanism of transgenerational epigenetic inheritance of progressive sterility observed in mutants of the H3K4me2 demethylase SPR-5.

Karen E. Kasza, Ph.D.
For training at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, NY with Dr. Jennifer Zallen. Mechanical Regulation of Actomyosin Contractility in Morphogenesis.

Andres M. Lebensohn, Ph.D.
For training at Stanford University with Dr. Rajat Rohatgi. Regulation of Hedgehog Signaling by Oxysterols.

Anselm C. Levskaya, Ph.D.
For training at Stanford University with Dr. Karl Deisseroth. Developing Opsin-derived Fluorescent Proteins for Interrogating Neurons.

Gene-Wei Li, Ph.D.
For training at the University of California, San Francisco with Dr. Jonathan Weissman. Translational Pausing and Co-Translational Protein Folding.

Colin D. Malone, Ph.D.
For training at New York University with Dr. Ruth Lehmann. Dissecting the pathways supporting infection by the endosymbiotic bacterium, Wolbachia.

Michael B. Manookin, Ph.D.
For training at the University of Washington with Dr. Dennis Dacey. Synaptic mechanisms of color-coding in the primate visual system.

Amy J. McMahon, Ph.D.
For training at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with Dr. Richard Hynes. Premetastatic niche formation and extravasation: dynamic studies in a zebrafish model.

Yasemin S. Sancak, Ph.D.
For training at the Massachusetts General Hospital with Dr. Vamsi Mootha. Systems approaches to mitochondrial biochemistry.

Jerrod J. Schwartz, Ph.D.
For training at the University of Washington with Dr. Jay Shendure. The Evolutionary Pathways of PRDM9 and Meiotic Recombination Hotspots.

Gabriel M. Simon, Ph.D.
For training at Washington University, St. Louis with Dr. Jeffrey Gordon. Modulation of host protein lysine acetylation by the gut microbiota: a quantitative proteomics study in gnotobiotic mice.

Xin Ye, Ph.D.
For training at the Whitehead Institute with Dr. Robert Weinberg. The functions of long intergenic noncoding RNAs in breast cancer metastasis.

Caroline H. Yi, Ph.D.
For training at the University of California, Los Angeles with Dr. Larry Zipursky. Molecular Mechanisms of Dendrite Target Recognition.

Xin Zhang, Ph.D.
For training at the Scripps Research Institute with Dr. Jeffery Kelly. Rendering protein evolution more efficient by adapting the proteostasis network.