Laurent Blanchoin, PhD, Research Director (DR, CNRS) Institute of Life Sciences Research and Technologies(iRTSV) (Grenoble, France). PI of the Physics of cytoskeleton and morphogenesis team. “Symmetry and mechanics of contractile actin network”
Carol Gregorio, PhD, Director, Molecular Cardiovascular Research Program at the University of Arizona College of Medicine.“Deciphering actin-thin filament length regulation in the heart – what is the point?”
Melike Lakadamyali, PhD, Group Leader and Professor, The Institute of Photonic Sciences. “Illuminating biology with super-resolution microscopy”
Rong Li, PhD, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor and Director, Center for Cell Dynamics, Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. “Rapid cellular evolution driven by chromosome instability and stoichiometry imbalance”
Mary Porter, PhD, Professor, Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development at the University of Minnesota. “How to build a microtubule based machine”
James E. Bear, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Cancer Biology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine. “Life without the Arp2/3 complex: what still works, what does not”
Carlos J. Bustamante, PhD, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and Professor of Molecular & Cell Biology, Physics, and Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. “Division of Labor Among the Subunits of a Highly Coordinated Ring ATPase”
Melissa Rolls, PhD, Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Chair of the Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Biosciences Graduate Program at Penn State University. “Using genetics and live imaging to understand microtubule polarity and dynamics in healthy and injured neurons”
Kinneret Keren, PhD, Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute, Israel Institute of Technology. “Actomyosin force generation directs hydra regeneration”
Valeria Cavalli, PhD, Associate Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Hope Center for Neurological Disorders, at Washington University in St. Louis. “Activating axon regeneration programs: from histone modifications to lipid synthesis”