John Cooper, MD, PhD – Professor of Cell Biology and Physiology, Professor and Interim Head of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Washington University in St. Louis, “Capping Protein, CARMILs and Actin Assembly at Membranes”
Eva Nogales, PhD – Senior Faculty Scientist, Deputy Department Head of the Life Sciences Division, Department of Bioenergy/GTL & Structural Biology, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley. “Structural insights into microtubule dynamic instability and its regulation”
Evelyn Ralston, PhD – Chief Light Imaging Section, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, “Microtubules of skeletal muscle: dynamic and stable, different, and important.”
Rebecca Heald, PhD – Flora Lamson Hewlett Chair and Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, Department of Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley “Mechanisms of mitosis and size control in Xenopus”
Donald M. Bers, PhD – Professor and Chair, Department of Pharmacology, University of California, Davis. “Calcium Signaling in Cardiac Myocytes in Health and Disease”
Edward D. Salmon, PhD – Research Professor (Retired James Larkin and Iona Mae Ballou Distinguished Professor), The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Anthony Cammarato, PhD – Assistant Professor, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, John Hopkins University
Robert T. Dirksen, PhD – Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, University of Rochester Medical Center
David Odde, PhD – Professor and Acting Department Head, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota
Ye Chen Izu, PhD – Assitant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, University of California, Davi