Vivian Tang, PhD – Research Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Illinois,School og Molecular & Cellular Biology. “Mechanoregulation and actin assembly at membrane cell-cell adhesions”
Kassandra Ori-McKenney, PhD – Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Davis, College of Biological Sciences. “Navigating the neuron: how microtubule-associated proteins direct motor transport.”
Brenton D. Hoffman, PhD – Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University. “Assessing the Effects of Protein Load on Protein Function”
Andrea Musacchio, PhD – Director, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund. “Eukaryotic cell division: a dissection”
Andrew Goryachev – Professor of Computational Cell Biology, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Edinburgh. “How to build a procentriole”
Mike Heilemann, PhD – Professor, Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Goethe-University Frankfurt. “Cracking the spatial code – protein complex stoichiometry and nanostructure regulates cellular function”
Tatiana Svitkina, PhD – Professor, Department of Biology, The Perelman School of Medicine, The University of Pennsylvania. “Actin cytoskeleton: From Mitochpndrial dynamics to neuron navigation”
Rebecca Wells, MD – Professor, Department of Medicine, The Perelman School of Medicine, The University of Pennsylvania. “A bile duct-on-a-chip: an example of a simple microfluidic device with outsized finctional potential”
About the Speaker: Benjamin Prosser, PhD
About the Speaker: Leon Morales