Seminars

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”

Keith Burridge, PhD, Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine. "From Cell Adhesion and Mechanotransduction to Rho GTPases".

Diane L. Barber, PhD, Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Cell and Tissue Biology, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of California, San Francisco. "Regulation by Intracellular pH and Actin Filament Dynamics: From Molecules to Cancer and Stem Cell Behaviors"

Marc W. Kirschner, PhD, John Franklin Enders University Professor of Systems Biology, Department of Systems Biology, Harvard University. “Specificity in Protein Degradation”