Sponsors

Keynote Speakers

Stephen C. Harrison, Ph.D., is The Giovanni Armenise-Harvard Professor in Basic Biomedical Sciences, Harvard Medical School and Investigator in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Dr. Harrison is best known for his pioneering work on the X-ray crystallography of viruses and virus-related systems. He has also made a number of seminal contributions to the development and application of other physical methods, particularly electron microscopy, to study complex macromolecular assemblies. His Keynote Lecture is entitled “Electron microscopy of large assemblies at near-atomic resolution”.

Thomas D. Pollard, M.D., is The Sterling Professor and Chair, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University. Throughout his career, Dr. Pollard has employed a remarkable combination of biochemistry, biophysics, microscopy and fission yeast genetics to investigate the molecular basis of cellular motility and cytokinesis. His Keynote Lecture is entitled “Combining structure at all levels with kinetics to understand actin-based motility and cytokinesis.”

Platform Speakers
& Session Chairs

David Agard, USA
Cheryl Arrowsmith, Canada
James M. Berger, USA
Wolfgang Baumeister, Germany
Michael S. Chapman, USA
Peter P. Cherepanov, UK
Ed Egelman, USA
Dorit Hanein, USA
Jenny Hinshaw, USA
Nobutaka Hirokawa, Japan
Jack Johnson, USA
Carolyn Larabell, USA
Suliana Manley, Switzerland
Hassane Mchaourab, USA
Harvey McMahon, UK
Ron Milligan, USA
Jianwei (John) Miao, USA
James H. Prestegard, USA
Felix Rey, France
Carol Robinson, UK
Michael Rossmann, USA
Andrej Sali, USA
Mike Sheetz, USA
Patrick Shultz, France
Tim Springer, USA
Alasdair Steven, USA
Phoebe Stewart, USA
Wes Sundquist, USA
Lukas Tamm, USA
Niels Volkmann, USA
William Weis, USA
Winfried Weissenhorn, France
Jonathan Weissman, USA
David Wemmer, USA
Mark Yeager, USA