Samantha Harris, PhD – Professor, Department of Cellular & Molecular Medicine, Department of Physiology, University of Arizona. “Stop making waves: A new regulatory role for cardiac myosin binding protein-C in damping contractile oscillations”
William O. Hancock, PhD - Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Penn State University. “A molecular view of microtubule dynamic instability”
Erika Holzbaur, PhD - William Maul Measey Professor in Physiology, Department of Physiology, The Perelman School of Medicine, The University of Pennsylvania. “Actin Dynamics Regulate Spatial Mixing of Mitochondria in Dividing Cells”
Roberto Dominguez, PhD - William Maul Measey Professor in Physiology, Department of Physiology, The Perelman School of Medicine, The University of Pennsylvania. “Cryo-EM Structure of NPF-Bound Human Arp2/3 Complex and Activation Mechanism”
Joel D. Boerckel, PhD - Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, The Perelman School of Medicine, The University of Pennsylvania. “Is mechanotransduction a one-way street? Transcriptional feedback control of the cytoskeleton”
Alexis Gautreau, PhD - Professor of Biology, President, Department of Biology, École Polytechnique, France. “Assembly of an actin polymerizing machine: the WASH – Dynactin – Arp2/3 supercomplex”
Matthias Rief, PhD - Professor, Department of Physics, Technical University of Munich, Germany. "Single Molecule Mechanics of Protein Folding and Binding"
Matthias Rief, PhD - Professor, Department of Physics, Technical University of Munich, Germany. "Single Molecule Mechanics of Protein Folding and Binding"
Christian Kaiser, PhD - Assistant Professor, Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. “Dissecting multi-domain protein folding with optical tweezers”
Taekjip Ha, PhD - Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Professor in Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, Professor in Biomedical Engineering; Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. “Very Fast CRISPR on Demand”