Kimberley R. Toilias, PhD – Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, “Rho GTPase Signaling Pathways in Nervous System Development”
Ben E. Black, Ph.D. – Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania, “Centromere specifying chromatin and chromosome inheritance”
Silke Hauf, M.D. – Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, “Nobody is perfect – fragility and slowness in mitotic checkpoint signaling”
Anna Akhmanova – Professor of Cell Biology, Utrecht University, “Regulation of cell architecture by microtubule-end binding proteins”
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”