Charles Sindelar, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Department of Biological & Biomedical Sciences, Yale University. "A new look under the hood of the kinesin molecular motor by high-resolution cryo-EM”
Pennsylvania Muscle Institute Retreat- Force Sensing: Mechanobiology from Molecules to Tissues
Timothy Mitchison, Ph.D. - Hasib Sabbagh Professor of Systems Biology, Co-Director of the Initiative in Systems Pharmacology, and Deputy Chair for the Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School "Cell Division in Very Large Cells"
Stefan Westermann, Ph.D. - Group Leader at the Research Institute for Molecular Pathology. "Segregating the Genome - Design Principles of Kinetochores"
Wei Guo, Ph.D. - Associate Professor of Biology, Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, "The Exocyst in Exocytosis and Cell Migration"
Peter Gunning, Ph.D. - Head, Oncology Research Unit, School of Medical Sciences, University of New South Wales, "Tropomyosin: The path from cell architecture to cancer therapeutic target"
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”