Melissa Rolls, PhD, Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Chair of the Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Biosciences Graduate Program at Penn State University. "Using genetics and live imaging to understand microtubule polarity and dynamics in healthy and injured neurons"
Kinneret Keren, PhD, Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute, Israel Institute of Technology. "Actomyosin force generation directs hydra regeneration"
About the Speaker: Betsy McIntosh Ostap/Holzbaur Labs
Speaker: Ekaterina Grishchuk, PhD
Valeria Cavalli, PhD, Associate Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Hope Center for Neurological Disorders, at Washington University in St. Louis. "Activating axon regeneration programs: from histone modifications to lipid synthesis”
About the Speaker: Manuela Lavorato Franzini-Armstrong Lab
Speaker: Matthew Caporizzo, PhD
Keith Burridge, PhD, Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine. "From Cell Adhesion and Mechanotransduction to Rho GTPases".
Diane L. Barber, PhD, Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Cell and Tissue Biology, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of California, San Francisco. "Regulation by Intracellular pH and Actin Filament Dynamics: From Molecules to Cancer and Stem Cell Behaviors"
Speaker: Vishakha Karnawat, PhD