Nieng Yan, PhD, Professor, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University. "Structural Investigation of Excitation-Contraction Coupling: the ryanodine receptor at near atomic resolution”.
David Pellman, MD, Co-Director Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center Program in Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Howard Hughes Medical Institute. "Nuclear Architecture and Genome Stability"
Ahmet Yildiz, PhD, Assistant Professor of Physics and Molecular Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley. "The mechanism and regulation of cytoplasmic dynein motility"
Arne Gennerich, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Anatomy & Structural Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine. "Dissecting cytoplasmic dynein function using optical tweezers"
Douglas Robinson, PhD, Professor, Department of Cell Biology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. "Cellular Form and Function: For the Good of Health and the Detriment of Disease"
Vivek Shenoy, PhD, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering (MSE), Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics (MEAM), Bioengineering (BE), University of Pennsylvania. “Cell-Matrix Interactions in Fibrosis and Cancer: Multiscale mechanical models”
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"