Ovit Chaudhuri, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University. "Rubber vs. Silly Putty: Extracellular matrix viscoelasticity and its impact on cells"
About the Speaker: Lucas Smith Wells Lab
Speaker: Matthew Caporizzo, PhD
Jan Lammerding, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University. "Squish and squeeze – Nuclear mechanics in 3-D cell migration”
Eugen Kerkhoff, PhD Professor, Department of Neurology, University Hospital Regensburg. "Coordinated actin nucleation and myosin motor protein functions in intracellular vesicle transport processes"
About the Speaker: Dan Safer, PhD Ostap Lab
Speaker: E. Michael Ostap, PhD
David Kovar, PhD Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Chicago. "Self-organization of functionally diverse actin cytoskeleton networks."
Speaker: Anatoly Zaytsev, PhD Grishchuk Lab
About the Speaker: Julianne Huegel Soslowsky Lab