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"
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"