Sam Reck Peterson, PhD, Professor, Department Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of California, San Diego. “The Cellular Interstate System: mechanisms of microtubule-based transport”
Shae Padrick, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Drexel University College of Medicine. “The Mechanism of Actin Nucleation by the Arp2/3 Complex”
Roger W. Craig, PhD Professor, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Massachusetts. “Insights into muscle function from cryo-electron microscopy”
Pekka Lappalainen, PhD Research Director, Institute of Biotechnology and Professer, University of Helsinki. “Assembly of mechanosensitive actomyosin bundles in migrating cells”
Ovit Chaudhuri, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University. “Rubber vs. Silly Putty: Extracellular matrix viscoelasticity and its impact on cells”
Jan Lammerding, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University. “Squish and squeeze – Nuclear mechanics in 3-D cell migration”
Eugen Kerkhoff, PhD Professor, Department of Neurology, University Hospital Regensburg. “Coordinated actin nucleation and myosin motor protein functions in intracellular vesicle transport processes”
David Kovar, PhD Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Chicago. “Self-organization of functionally diverse actin cytoskeleton networks.”
Andrew Carter, PhD Group Leader, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK. “Transporting cargo over long distances: Insights from dynein/dynactin structures”
Taeyoon Kim, PhD Assistant Professor, Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University. “Reconstructing the Mechanical Behaviors of Cells in Silico”