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”
Stuart G. Campbell, PhD - Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering & Cellular and Molecular Physiology,Yale School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. "Roles of Myofilament Proteins and Extracellular Matrix in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy"
Henk Granzier, PhD - Professor and Director of Mouse Phenotyping Core and Myofilament Function and Disease Division, The University of Arizona Health and Science, College of Medicine Tucson Physiology. "Giant proteins in muscle structure and function"
Zev Bryant, PhD Associate Professor of Bioengineering & Structural Biology, Standord University "Engineering molecular motors"
Adam G. Hendricks, PhD - Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering, McGill University. "Traffic control in the cell: Tau and MAP7 direct transport by kinesin and dynein"