Talia Hatkevich (Jeff Sekelsky lab) gave a talk titled “A novel function for centromere-specific SMC1 in Drosophila prophase I” Image: Model for Blm helicase in Drosophila meiosis” at the EMBO Meiosis Conference held on the island of Hvar, Croatia. Talia was one of only two graduate students (and a similar number of postdoctoral fellows) to give an oral presentation.