Gregg G. Gundersen, PhD Professor, Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University. “Tickling Adhesions: The Role of Microtubules and Integrin Trafficking in Directed Cell Migration”
Robert Cross, PhD, Director, Centre for Mechanochemical Cell Biology, Warwick Medical School. “Mechanochemical allostery in kinesins and microtubules”
David Glass, MD, Executive Director, Age-related Disorders, Developmental & Molecular Pathways, NIBR – Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research. “Mechanisms mediating skeletal muscle mass, function and aging”
Peter Friedl, PhD, Professor, Department of Genitourinary Medical Oncology – Research, Division of Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center; Professor, Department of Cell Biology, Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Radboud University Nijmegen. “Mechanics of cancer invasion and metastasis”
Ming Guo, PhD, Assistant Professor, d’Arbeloff Career Development Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “Taking advantage of the nonlinearity of intracellular and extracellular structures”
Carsten Janke, PhD , Senior Group Leader, Department of Signalling, Neurobiology & Cancer, Institut Curie. “Controlling microtubule functions with the tubulin code”
Francois Nedelec, PhD Group Leader, Structural and Computational Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory. “Mechanics of Contractile Actomyosin Networks”
Peter Gunning, PhD – Head, School of Medical Sciences, University of New South Wales Sydney, Australia. “Building anti-cancer therapy out of the basic science of the actin cytoskeleton”
Christopher M. Yengo, PhD – Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Penn State College of Medicine.”Structural Mechanisms of Allosteric Coupling in Myosin Motors”
Jessica E. Wagenseil, PhD – Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri. “Elastic fibers and arterial mechanics”