| Name | Mentor | Talk Title | Current Position |
| Emily Alden | Ramaswamy | Bacterial Avoidance of Host Immune Response | 2008 recipient of the Gates Cambridge Scholarship; Master of Philosophy student, Cambridge University |
| Christine Cho | Ramaswamy | Study of Sialic Acid Binding Protein in Vibrio Cholerae | HHMI Fellow and Medical Student, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine |
| Andrew William Folkmann | DeMali | A Novel Approach to Elucidate Integrin Mediated Adhesion | Graduate Student, Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in the Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University |
| Majd S. Haddad | Kohen | The Study of Flavin-Dependent Thymidylate Synthase | Dental School, University of Iowa |
| Aaron (Guy) Hobbs | Ramaswamy | Interacting Together, Tao and Src | Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Biophysics, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill |
| Scott Robert Nichols | Gioannini | Using gale Escherichia coli to Study Effects of LPS-carbohydrate Chain Length on Interactions of LPS with Host Binding Proteins | Graduate Student, Program in Molecular Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University |
| Jennifer Nzegwu | Elcock | Effects of Temperature on Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Interactions | |
| Andrew Jay Petersen | Wallrath | Characterization of the Hinge Region of Heterochromatin Protein 1 | Graduate Student, Molecular & Cellular Pharmacology Graduate Training Program, University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| Jason Dean Prantner | Stellwagen, N. | Study of DNA Interactions with Isoelectric Good Buffers | Graduate Student, Department of Chemistry, University of Washington |