Stuart G. Campbell, PhD – Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering & Cellular and Molecular Physiology,Yale School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. “Roles of Myofilament Proteins and Extracellular Matrix in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy”
Henk Granzier, PhD – Professor and Director of Mouse Phenotyping Core and Myofilament Function and Disease Division, The University of Arizona Health and Science, College of Medicine Tucson Physiology. “Giant proteins in muscle structure and function”
Zev Bryant, PhD Associate Professor of Bioengineering & Structural Biology, Standord University “Engineering molecular motors”
Adam G. Hendricks, PhD – Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering, McGill University. “Traffic control in the cell: Tau and MAP7 direct transport by kinesin and dynein”
Yi-Wei Chang, PhD – –> Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania. “Structural biology in vivo through electron cryo-tomography”
Jennifer G. DeLuca, PhD – Monfort Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Colorado State University, College of Natural Sciences. “Making and breaking kinetochore-microtubule attachments in mitosis.”
Gary J. Brouhard, PhD – Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Quantitative Life Sciences, McGill University. “The Mechanistic Basis of Microtubule Growth”
Thomas Arnesen, PhD – Professor, Dept. of Biomedicine & Dept. of Biological Sciences, University of Bergen. “Protein N-terminal acetylation machinery and impact: spotlight on actin”
Khalid Salaita, PhD – Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Emory College of Arts and Sciences. “A measure of molecular muscle: Molecular force probes to study mechanobiology.”
Paul Samuel Maddox, PhD – Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “Epigenetic regulation of centromeres in early development: Fluorescence based technologies for long term, high spatio-temperal resolution.”