Brad Nolen, Ph.D. – Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology & Biophysics, Department of Chemistry. Member, Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon. “Controlling the activity of Arp2/3 complex with cellular regulators and small molecule inhibitors”
Haruo Sugi, PhD Emeritus – Professor of Physiology, Teikyo University. “Direct electron microscopic recording of ATP-induced power stroke in individual myosin heads studied using the gas environmental chamber”
Qing Zhong, MD, Ph.D. Assistant – Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology, Department of Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley “Self-eating Helps to Assemble Cell’s Antenna”
Ning Fang, Ph.D. – Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Iowa State University Faculty Scientist, Ames Laboratory, “Science of Rock ‘n’ Roll.”
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”