Anyi is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Entomology at Cornell University. She is originally from Cali-Colombia, before going to Cornell, she did a master in Puerto Rico studying weevils, then worked at Duke Univerisity trying to detect luciferases shining from single yeast cells. For her dissertation, she is interested in understanding how morphological features develop and evolve to create the amazing diversity of forms we see in nature. Specifically, she is studying the development of wing color patterns, implementing CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing to modify the function of genes and genome-wide methods to spotlight elements involved in the regulation of a wing patterning gene in different species of butterflies.

Du Cheng is currently an MD-PhD student in the Weill Cornell/Sloan-Kettering/Rockefeller U Tri-Institutional MD-PhD program (@weillcornell). Besides learning medicine and doing neuroscience research, he owns a company making LabCam adapter that allows you to take high-quality photos on a microscope with your iPhone (@iLabCam). He is a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow (@PDSoros) of 2016. For more information on IDu Optics visit: www.iduoptics.com