Michael Marks, Ph.D. – Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine & Physiology, University of Pennsylvania “Microtubule motors and endosome tubulation during melanosome biogenesis”
Jeff Gelles, Ph.D. – Aron and Imre Tauber Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Department of Life Sciences, Brandeis University “Control of actin filament branching and debranching elucidated by multi-wavelength single-molecule fluorescence”
Velia Fowler, Ph.D. – Professor & Associate Dean of Graduate Studies, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, “”Actin Cytoskeletal Regulation of Cell Dynamics: Insights from Red Blood Cells and Skeletal Muscle”
Marco Capitanio, PhD. – Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, LENS, European Laboratory for Non-linear Spectroscopy, University of Florence, “Force-clamp laser trapping of rapidly interacting biomolecules”
Biophysical Society Meeting
Sivaraj Sivaramakrishnan – Assistant Professor of Cell & Developmental Biology, University of Michigan
Peter Novick, Ph.D. – Professor of Cellular & Molecular Medicine, UC Berkeley. “Regulation of membrane traffic by a network of rab GTPases”
Henry Hess, Ph.D. – Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, “Using motor proteins for smart dust, active self-assembly and non-fouling surfaces”
David Thirumalai, Ph.D. – Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Maryland, Institute for Physical Sciences and Technology. “Stepping Kinetics of Myosin V including Foot Stomping”
Bianxiao Cui, Ph.D. – Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, “Tracking vesicle transport in axons – coordination of opposite polarity motors during unidirectional transport”