Sivaraj Sivaramakrishan, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, University of Minnesota. “Wisdom of Crowds: Linking Collective Protein Interactions to Cellular Function”
Alex Mogilner, PhD, Professor of Mathematics and Biology, Courant Institute and Department of Biology, New York University. “Mechanisms of actomyosin contraction in disordered dynamic cytoskeleton: modeling perspective”
Alexey Khodjakov, PhD,Research Scientist, Wadsworth Center, Cellular and Molecular Basis of Diseases, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health. “Mitotic spindle assembly: Basic Principles and facilitating mechanism”
Tobias Baumgart, PhD, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania. “Mechanisms of membrane curvature generation by peripheral proteins”
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”