Scott H. Soderling, PhD – Associate Professor of Cell Biology and Neurobiology, Department of Cell Biology, Co-Director of the BAC Recombineering Facility, Duke University School of Medicine
Michael Previs, PhD – Assistant Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, University of Vermont, “Myosin-binding protein C mechanically enhances cardiac excitation-contraction coupling”
Joseph Metzger, PhD – Professor and Department Head, Department of Integrative Biology & Physiology, University of Minnesota, “Design and implementation of physiological bio-sensing actuators for the heart”
Jonathon Howard, BSc, PhD – Eugene Higgins Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and Professor of Physics, Department of Biological & Biomedical Sciences, Yale University
Kazuhiro Oiwa, PhD – Distinguished ResearcherAdvanced ICT Research InstituteNational Institute of Information and Communications Technology (Tokyo, Japan)Professor (Joint Appointment)Graduate School of Life Science, University of Hyogo, “Auto-regulation mechanisms of mammalian cytoplasmic dynein”
Thomas D. Pollard, MD – Sterling Professor of Molecular Cellular & Developmental Biology, Yale University, “Mechanism of cytokinesis- the original muscle”
Kerry Bloom – Thad L. Beyle Distinguished Professor of Biology, Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “Forces in Mitosis: A balancing act between centromere springs and dynamic microtubules”
Elizabeth Rhoades – Associate Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, “Order from disorder: understanding the function of tau”
Stuart S. Martin, PhD – Associate Professor of Physiology, Department of Physiology, University of Maryland, “Targeting the cytoskeletal physics of circulating breast tumor cells to reduce metastasis”
Ajit Joglekar, PhD, Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, “Triggering and tuning the Spindle Assembly Checkpoint”