William Mills, PhD, is an assistant professor of biology at Mount St. Mary's University exploring novel roles of microRNAs in regulating post-transcriptional gene regulation using molecular biology and bioinformatics. Mills completed undergraduate training in biochemistry at the University of Virginia and graduate training in biological chemistry in the lab of Mollie Meffert at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He has taught undergraduate and graduate STEM courses for seven years.

Yash Kommula, PhD, is a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Maryland, College Park. He received his BS in neuroscience and behavioral biology from Emory University. Kommula is a public health-minded neuroscientist who has focused on documenting the benefits of exercise on brain health during aging and has extensive experience with functional and resting magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) analysis. His current research focus is about the associations between lifestyle/health variables with risk of conversion to Fragile X-associated tremor/ataxia syndrome (FXTAS) for those at genetic risk for this disease.