Michael Marks, Ph.D. – Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine & Physiology, University of Pennsylvania “Microtubule motors and endosome tubulation during melanosome biogenesis”
About the Speaker: David Hammers (Sweeney Lab)
Jeff Gelles, Ph.D. – Aron and Imre Tauber Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Department of Life Sciences, Brandeis University “Control of actin filament branching and debranching elucidated by multi-wavelength single-molecule fluorescence”
Speaker: Jeffrey Hallock
Velia Fowler, Ph.D. – Professor & Associate Dean of Graduate Studies, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, “”Actin Cytoskeletal Regulation of Cell Dynamics: Insights from Red Blood Cells and Skeletal Muscle”
Marco Capitanio, PhD. – Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, LENS, European Laboratory for Non-linear Spectroscopy, University of Florence, “Force-clamp laser trapping of rapidly interacting biomolecules”