Fall 2020

Matthias Rief, PhD – Professor, Department of Physics, Technical University of Munich, Germany. “Single Molecule Mechanics of Protein Folding and Binding”

Christian Kaiser, PhD – Assistant Professor, Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. “Dissecting multi-domain protein folding with optical tweezers”

Taekjip Ha, PhD – Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Professor in Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, Professor in Biomedical Engineering; Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. “Very Fast CRISPR on Demand”

Adam Williamson, PhD – Assistant Professor, Department of Biology; Bryn Mawr College. “Building Designer Phagocytes to Define Mechanism & Target Disease”

Daniel Fletcher, PhD – Professor, Bioengineering & Biophysics; UC Berkeley. “Mind the Gap: Force-mediated membrane fusion”

Anne Straube, PhD – Professor, Cell and Development Biology; University of Warwick. “Regulation of intracellular transport”

Joseph E. Italiano, PhD – Associate Professor of Medicine; Harvard Medical School. “Molecular drivers of platelet production”