William Hancock - Associate Professor of Bioengineering, Department of Bioengineering, Penn State University. "The nuts and bolts of Kinesin-2, a transport motor that moonlights as a remodeler of the neuronal cytoskeleton”
John S. Condeelis - Professor, Department of Anatomy & Structural BiologyScientific Director, Analytical Imaging Facility, Co-Director, Integrated Imaging Program, Director, Tumor Microenvironment and Metastasis Program, AECC, Co-Chair, Department of Anatomy & Structural Biology, The Judith and Burton P. Resnick Chair in Translational Research, Department of Anatomy & Structural Biology, Co-Director, Gruss-Lipper Biophotonics Center, Albert Einstein School of Medicine
Stefan Diez - Professor of BioNanoTools and Speaker of B CUBE, Technische Universität Dresden and Group Leader at Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden."Force Generation by Diffusible Microtubule Crosslinkers”LOCATED IN JMB CLASS OF 62 HALL
Henry N. Higgs, PhD - Professor of Biochemistry at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College,“A moveable feast - roles for actin and myosin II in mammalian mitochondrial fission” LOCATED IN JMB CLASS OF 62 HALL
John Solaro, PhD - Distinguished Professor and Head, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Illinois at Chicago, "Integration of Sarcomere Signaling in Cardiac Function"
James M. Ervasti, PhD - Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology & Biophysics, University of Minnesota, College of Biological Sciences, "Specialization of dystrophin and utrophin impacts muscular dystrophy pathogenesis and treatment"
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"