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##  2026 Symposium Speakers 

 



  [### Emily Balskus 

 ](https://www.chemistry.harvard.edu/people/emily-balskus)Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of Chemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator

Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Harvard University



 

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  [### Rebecca Sherbo

 ](https://cos.northeastern.edu/people/rebecca-sherbo/)Assistant Professor, Departments of Chemistry & Chemical Biology and Chemical Engineering

Northeastern University



 

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  [### Christina Warinner 

 ](https://anthropology.fas.harvard.edu/people/christina-warinner)Landon T. Clay Professor of Scientific Archaeology, Department of Archaeology, Harvard University

Sally Starling Seaver Associate Professor, Radcliffe Institute



 

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  [### Ben Wolfe 

 ](https://as.tufts.edu/biology/people/faculty/benjamin-wolfe)Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Tufts University



 

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  [### Bill Hanage 

 ](https://hsph.harvard.edu/profile/bill-hanage/)Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Co-Director, Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics



 

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  [### Ruaidhrí Jackson 

 ](https://immunologyphd.hms.harvard.edu/people/ruaidhr%C3%AD-jackson)Assistant Professor, Department of Immunology, Harvard Medical School



 

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  [### Jennifer Bhatnagar

 ](https://www.bu.edu/biology/people/profiles/jennifer-bhatnagar/)Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Boston University



 

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  [### Fatima Hussain 

 ](https://as.tufts.edu/biology/people/faculty/fatima-hussain)Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Tufts University



 

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