Sampriti Mukherjee is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular Genetics & Cell Biology at the University of Chicago. She is interested in understanding how bacteria decode and integrate self-generated and environmentally-derived stimuli to control transitions between individual and collective behaviors. She received her Ph.D. in Microbiology from Indiana University Bloomington in 2014 and did her postdoctoral work at Princeton University.

Gong Chen wants to become a super technician. She received her Masters in Plant production and farming system from China Agricultural University in 2011 and her Ph.D. in Plant Pathology from the University of Georgia in 2019.