Alex Mogilner, PhD, Professor of Mathematics and Biology, Courant Institute and Department of Biology, New York University. “Mechanisms of actomyosin contraction in disordered dynamic cytoskeleton: modeling perspective”
Alexey Khodjakov, PhD,Research Scientist, Wadsworth Center, Cellular and Molecular Basis of Diseases, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health. “Mitotic spindle assembly: Basic Principles and facilitating mechanism”
About the Speaker: Yale E. Goldman, MD, PhD
Speaker: Yale E. Goldman, MD, PhD
Tobias Baumgart, PhD, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania. “Mechanisms of membrane curvature generation by peripheral proteins”
About the Speaker: Katherine Gribble Granato Lab
Nieng Yan, PhD, Professor, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University. “Structural Investigation of Excitation-Contraction Coupling: the ryanodine receptor at near atomic resolution”.
David Pellman, MD, Co-Director Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center Program in Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Howard Hughes Medical Institute. “Nuclear Architecture and Genome Stability”
About the Speaker: E. Michael Ostap, PhD