Confirmed Platform Speakers
Invited platform speakers for AQMHD 2026, organized by session.
Session 1. Congenital and Developmental Disorders
Sarah McMenamin
Boston College
Rosa Uribe
Rice University
Session 2. Regeneration and Reproductive Biology
Amro Hamdoun
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Molecular Instruments
Company representative to be announced
Session 3. Cancer and Aging
Kristin Gribble
Marine Biological Laboratory
Enoch Ng’oma
University of Missouri
Session 4. Aquatic Genomics and Genetic Approaches to Disease Discovery
Daniel Wagner
University of California, San Francisco
Carrie Albertin
Harvard University
Session 5. Functional Genetic Screens in Disease
Ellen Hoffman
Yale University
Nicole Edwards
University of Michigan
Session 6. Metabolic and Endocrine Disease
Jane Khudyakov
University of the Pacific
Ramji Bhandari
University of Missouri
Session 7. Immunology & Microbiome
Elizabeth Heath-Heckman
Michigan State University
Jeff Yoder
North Carolina State University
Session 8. Toxicology, Environmental Exposure, and Disease Risk
Frauke Seemann
Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi
Andrew Whitehead
University of California, Davis
Session 9. Behavior, Neuroendocrinology, and Physiology
Yunlu Zhu
University of Michigan
Luis Hernandez-Nunez
Stanford University
Session 10. Evolutionary and Comparative Disease Models
Matthew Harris
Harvard Medical School
Kory Evans
Rice University
Session 11. Nutrition and Chronic Diseases
Peggy Biga
Texas State University
Wolfram Goessling
Yale School of Medicine