Rebecca Wells, MD – Professor, Department of Medicine, The Perelman School of Medicine, The University of Pennsylvania. “A bile duct-on-a-chip: an example of a simple microfluidic device with outsized finctional potential”
Yale E. Goldman, MD, PhD – Professor, Department of Physiology, The Perelman School of Medicine, The University of Pennsylvania. “The Earliest Events in the Myosin Power Stroke and a Puzzling Drug for Heart Faliure”
Hansell Stedman, MD – Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, The Perelman School of Medicine, The University of Pennsylvania. “2020 Hindsight: Ancient Evolutionary History of Muscle Proteins…New Directions in Gene Therapy”
Omar Quintero, PhD – Associate Professor, Department of Biology, University of Richmond. “More than a meme: How studying mitochondrial motility with undergraduates has been the powerhouse of my career”
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”