Spring 2015

Thomas D. Pollard, MD - Sterling Professor of Molecular Cellular & Developmental Biology, Yale University, "Mechanism of cytokinesis- the original muscle"

Kerry Bloom - Thad L. Beyle Distinguished Professor of Biology, Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, "Forces in Mitosis: A balancing act between centromere springs and dynamic microtubules"

Elizabeth Rhoades - Associate Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, "Order from disorder: understanding the function of tau"

Stuart S. Martin, PhD - Associate Professor of Physiology, Department of Physiology, University of Maryland, "Targeting the cytoskeletal physics of circulating breast tumor cells to reduce metastasis"

Ajit Joglekar, PhD, Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, "Triggering and tuning the Spindle Assembly Checkpoint"