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"
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"