Organizers

Dros 2026 is organized by esteemed members of the GSA community. Thank you to these dedicated volunteers! 

Organizers

Daria Siekhaus (Co-chair)

University of California, Los Angeles

Pelin Volkan (Co-chair)

Duke University

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Cassandra Extavour

Harvard University

Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez

University of Toronto

Jacob Kagey

University of Detroit Mercy

Akhila Rajan

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Session Chairs

Elizabeth Ables
Maria Akhmanova
Julien Ayroles
Hua Bai
Mark Bitter
Elyse Bolterstein
Justin Bosch
Nichole Broderick
Maria Bustillo
Laura Buttitta
Dawn Chen
Jaeda Coutinho-Budd
Marcus D. Kilwein
Deena Damschroder
Fabio Demontis
Olivier Devergne
Anita Devineni
Nour El Osmani
Carolyn Elya
Tara Finegan
Yvonne Fondufe-MIttendorf
Brandon Fricker
Vladimir Gelfand
Lydia Grmai
Rob Harris
Kerui Huang
Bernard Kim
Maiko Kitaoka
Eric Lai
Kim McCall
Colleen McLaughlin
Shyama Nandakumar
Eric Ntiri
Pritika Pandey
Michael Perry
Beverly Piggott
Lindsey Price
Prashanth Rangan
Rebeccah Stewart
Matt Ulgherait
Claudia Vasquez
Michael Welte
Adam Wong
Swathi Yadlapalli
Julia Zeitlinger

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