Events

Jeff Gelles, Ph.D. - Aron and Imre Tauber Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Department of Life Sciences, Brandeis University "Control of actin filament branching and debranching elucidated by multi-wavelength single-molecule fluorescence"

Velia Fowler, Ph.D. - Professor & Associate Dean of Graduate Studies, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, ""Actin Cytoskeletal Regulation of Cell Dynamics: Insights from Red Blood Cells and Skeletal Muscle"

Marco Capitanio, PhD. - Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, LENS, European Laboratory for Non-linear Spectroscopy, University of Florence, "Force-clamp laser trapping of rapidly interacting biomolecules”

Biophysical Society Meeting

Sivaraj Sivaramakrishnan - Assistant Professor of Cell & Developmental Biology, University of Michigan

Peter Novick, Ph.D. - Professor of Cellular & Molecular Medicine, UC Berkeley. "Regulation of membrane traffic by a network of rab GTPases"

Henry Hess, Ph.D. - Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, "Using motor proteins for smart dust, active self-assembly and non-fouling surfaces"