Lance Davidson, PhD – Professor, Bioengineering, Dev Biology, Comp. and Systems Biology; University of Pittsburgh. “Lessons from the embryo: how physical mechanics shape and guide tissue self-assembly”
Mustafa Mir, PhD, Assistant Professor, Cell & Developmental Biology; University of Pennsylvania & Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. “A dynamic single molecule view of gene regulation during embryogenesis”
Margaret S. Cheung, PhD – Professor of Physics, Chemistry, and Computer Science; University of Houston. “Physics of Memory and Learning – from the Perspective of Interacting Biomolecules”
Presented by Martin Schwartz, PhD. Robert W. Berliner Professor of Medicine (Cardiology), Professor of Biomedical Engineering and of Cell Biology, Yale School of Medicine
Jodi Nunnari Ph.D., Distinguished Professor, University of California, Davis, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Presented by Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, Ph.D. Senior Group Leader at Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Research Campus, Founding Member of the Neuronal Cell Biology Program at Janelia
Speaker: Michael Lampson Ph.D., Professor of Biology, University of Pennsylvania
Speaker: Simon Scheuring, Ph.D. Professor of Physiology and Biophysics in Anesthesiology, Weill Cornell Medicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Speaker: Zoltan Arany MD, Ph.D. – Director of Cardiovascular Metabolism Program, University of Pennsylvania
Speaker: Joerg Bewersdorf PhD, Professor of Cell Biology and of Biomedical Engineering, Yale University