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"
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"