Vivek Shenoy, PhD, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering (MSE), Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics (MEAM), Bioengineering (BE), University of Pennsylvania. “Cell-Matrix Interactions in Fibrosis and Cancer: Multiscale mechanical models”
Laurent Blanchoin, PhD, Research Director (DR, CNRS) Institute of Life Sciences Research and Technologies(iRTSV) (Grenoble, France). PI of the Physics of cytoskeleton and morphogenesis team. "Symmetry and mechanics of contractile actin network"
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Carol Gregorio, PhD, Director, Molecular Cardiovascular Research Program at the University of Arizona College of Medicine.“Deciphering actin-thin filament length regulation in the heart - what is the point?”
Speaker: Daniel Safer, PhD
Melike Lakadamyali, PhD, Group Leader and Professor, The Institute of Photonic Sciences. "Illuminating biology with super-resolution microscopy"
Rong Li, PhD, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor and Director, Center for Cell Dynamics, Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. "Rapid cellular evolution driven by chromosome instability and stoichiometry imbalance"
Speaker: Anatoly Zaytsev, PhD
Mary Porter, PhD, Professor, Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development at the University of Minnesota. "How to build a microtubule based machine"