Johnathan M. Scholey, Ph.D. - Professor of Cell Biology and Biochemistry, Dept. of MCB, UC Davis And Adjunct Professor of Molecular Biology, Dept. of MBG, Bogazici University "Mitotic Motors and Chromosome Segregation: The Sliding Filament Mechanism of Anaphase B"
Matt Lord, PhD - Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, University of Vermont, CRB, Austrian Auditorium. "Bar-coding of the actin track and myosin motor function in the cell"
Susan P. Gilbert, PhD. - Professor and Head, Department of Biology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. "Kinesin 14: A League of their Own"
Don C. Rockey, M.D. - Professor and Chairman, Department of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina. "Actin in myofibroblast function"
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Michael Sheetz, PhD. - Director and Principal Investigator of the Mechanobiology Institute at the National University of Singapore; William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Cell Biology and Physiology, Columbia University. "Cellular Mechanosensing of Microenvironment by Local Sarcomere Contractions of Matrix"
David Drubin, PhD. - Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Univ of California, Berkeley. "Harnessing actin dynamics for endocytic trafficking"