Robert D. Goldman, Ph.D. – Stephen Walter Ranson Professor and Chair, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology. Northwestern University. “The Structure and Function of the Nuclear Intermediate Filament Networks: Lamins in Health and Disease”
Johnathan M. Scholey, Ph.D. – Professor of Cell Biology and Biochemistry, Dept. of MCB, UC Davis And Adjunct Professor of Molecular Biology, Dept. of MBG, Bogazici University “Mitotic Motors and Chromosome Segregation: The Sliding Filament Mechanism of Anaphase B”
Matt Lord, PhD – Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, University of Vermont, CRB, Austrian Auditorium. “Bar-coding of the actin track and myosin motor function in the cell”
Susan P. Gilbert, PhD. – Professor and Head, Department of Biology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. “Kinesin 14: A League of their Own”
Don C. Rockey, M.D. – Professor and Chairman, Department of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina. “Actin in myofibroblast function”
Michael Sheetz, PhD. – Director and Principal Investigator of the Mechanobiology Institute at the National University of Singapore; William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Cell Biology and Physiology, Columbia University. “Cellular Mechanosensing of Microenvironment by Local Sarcomere Contractions of Matrix”
David Drubin, PhD. – Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Univ of California, Berkeley. “Harnessing actin dynamics for endocytic trafficking”
Frank Gertler, PhD – Professor of Biology, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “Coordination of signaling by cell surface receptors with actin polymerization”
Jon Terman, PhD. – Rita C. and William P. Clements, Jr. Scholar in Medical Research, Associate Professor of Neuroscience, Departments of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, UT Southwestern. “Direct Redox Regulation of Action-dependent Cell Biology”
Anna Kashina, PhD. – Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, Department of Animal Biology and Biochemistry, University of Pennsylvania. “Regulation of actin cytoskeleton by posttranslational arginylation”