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."
Speaker: Andrea Stavoe, PhD
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”
Speaker: Dan Safer, PhD
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."
Alexander E. Kelly, PhD - Senior Investigator, Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, National Cancer Institure, Center for Cancer Research. “Chromosome Segregation: New Insights into Kinetochore Assembly and Regulation”