| Name | Mentor | Talk Title | Future Plans |
| Lance Heady | Andrew Pieper | A Neuron and it's Survival: A Tale of Drug Discovery | Will be pursuing his PhD in Neuroscience at UT Southwestern this fall |
| Tien Thuy Nguyen | Marc Wold | Diverse Interactions of the Multifunctional, Regulatory Domain of Replication Protein A | Working full time as a medical scribe at Mercy Hospital in Iowa City. Plans to attend medical school in 1-2 years |
| Laura Fischer | Marc Wold | A Potential Role of Alternative Replication Protein A in Huntington's Disease Progression | PhD program in Developmental, Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology at Washington University in St. Louis |
| Preston Anderson | John Engelhardt | Submucosal Gland Myoepithelial Cells Are Reserve Stem Cells That Can Regenerate Mouse Tracheal Epithelium | Attending Duke University Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) |
| Devin Reusch | Todd Washington | Polymerase Switching During Translesion Synthesis: A Tale of the Tail | Graduate student, Department of Biochemistry, University of Iowa |
| Steven Huang | Ernesto Fuentes | The Structural Characterization and Ligand Identification of the SrrB Cache Domain | Completing a research fellowship at the National Institute of Health (NIH) before applying to medical school |
| Titus Hou | Ernesto Fuentes | A Newly Identified Sub-Pocket That Plays a Unique Role in Scribble PDZ1 - SGEF iPBM Interaction | Medical school at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Rockford |
| Benjamin Spector | David Price | Association of the Pol II CTD Phosphatase Ssu72 with Transcription Complexes | Continuing doing research while deciding between graduate or medical school |
| Alexandra Bess | Jennifer Fiegel | Protein Effects of BALF on Various Polystyrene Nanoparticles | Seeking employment immediately post-graduation and intend on getting a higher degree within a few years of graduating |
| Gabriel Fortunato | Amnon Kohen | Uncovering the Evolutionary Mechanism of Enzyme Catalysis | Take a gap year at Kohen Research Group then go to medical school |