Jinghua Hu, PhD – Associate Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology/ Assitant Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, “Molecular insights into cilia and ciliopathies: see elegance in C. elegans.”
Steven Rosenfeld,MD, PhD, Staff at Cleveland Clinic, Department of Cancer Biology, Lerner Research Institute, “Molecular Motors and Glioblastoma”
Fred Chang, MD, PhD, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Columbia University, “Mechanical regulation of fission yeast cell morphogenesis and division”
Thomas Surrey, PhD, Laboratory Head, Microtubule Cytoskeleton Team at London Research Institute, “What end binding proteins tell us about the mechanism of microtubule dynamic instability”
Noah Weisleder, PhD, Associate Professor of Department of Physiology and Cell Biology and Investigator, Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute, Ohio State University. “Mechanisms of sarcolemmal membrane repair in striated muscles”
Isabelle Marty, PhD, Grenoble Institut des Neurosciences. “”The calcium release complex in muscle diseases : from molecular mechanisms to therapy”.”
Jonathon Howard, BSc, PhD, Eugene Higgins Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and Professor of Physics, Department of Biological & Biomedical Sciences, Yale University
Benoit Ladoux, PhD, Professor and Co-Principal Investigator, Mechanobiology Institute in Singapore
Pascale G. Charest, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson. “Signaling mechanisms controlling directed cell migration.”
Pennsylvania Muscle Institute Special Workshop and Seminar Jan Gettemans, PhD, Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Ghent University. “Camelid nanobodies as a research tool, diagnostic, or therapeutic”