Minisymposia Co-Chairs

Below is a list of the co-chairs for each Minisymposia Topic

Controlling the Cell: The Nucleus, Chromosomes and Cell Division (includes Regulation of Cell Division, Mitosis & Meiosis, Chromosome Structure, the Nucleus, and From DNA to RNA)

• Bungo Akiyoshi, University of Oxford
• Jonathan Chubb, University College of London
• Jennifer DeLuca, Colorado State University
• Stefano Di Talia, Duke University
• Sylvia Erhardt, Center for Molecular Biology Heidelberg University
• Emily Hatch, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
• Tracy Johnson, Univeristy of California, Los Angeles
• Dan Levy, University of Wyoming
• Silvia Santos, The Francis Crick Institute
• Sadie Wignall, Northwestern University

Cytoskeleton, Motility & Cell Mechanics (includes Microtubules & Motors, Cilia/Flagella, Actin & Myosin, and Cell Shape & Polarity)

• Greg Alushin, Rockefeller University
• Prachee Avasthi, Univerisity of Kansas Medical Center
• Jessica Feldman, Stanford University
• Laura Anne Lowery, Boston College
• Sophie G. Martin, University of Lausanne
• Jeremy Nance, New York University School of Medicine
• Kassandra Ori-McKenney, University of California, Davis
• Ewa Paluch, University College of London
• Anthony Roberts, University of London
• Marija Zanic, Vanderbilt University

Education Minisymposium: Evidence-Based Education: Biology Competency for the Classroom and Beyond

• Jennifer Hood-DeGranier, Worcester State University
• Leocadia Paliulis, Bucknell University

Intracellular Organization & Quality Control (includes Trafficking, Organelles & Their Interactions, Lipid Trafficking & Membrane Recycling, Phase Transitions, Autophagy, and Protein Turnover & Quality Control)

• Pedro Carvalho, University of Oxford
• Francesca Giordano, Institut de Biologie Intégrative de la Cellule (I2BC)
• Martin Graef, Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne
• Dan Jarosz, Stanford University
• Amy Kiger, University of California, San Diego
• Robin Klemm, University of Zurich
• Marta Miasczynska, EMBL
• Mary Munson, University of Massachusetts Medical School
• Jeff Woodruff, University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center
• Roberto Zoncu, University of California, Berkeley

Multicellular Cell Biology: From Tissues to Organisms (includes Cell Migration, Morphogenesis & Developmental Dynamics, Stem Cell & Organoid Biology, Metabolism, and Immunity & Cell Death)

• Andrea Ablasser, EPFL
• Tom Cheung, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
• Lydia Finley, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
• Darren Gilmour, University of Zurich
• Prisca Liberali, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research
• Caren Norden, MPI-CBG
• Maddy Parsons, Kings College London
• Romeo Ricci, University of Strasbourg
• Angelike Stathopoulos, California Institute of Technology
• Matthew Vander Heiden, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

New Perspectives on Cell Biology: Evolution to Super-Resolution (includes Biophysics & Quantitative Approaches to Cell Biology, and Emerging Model Systems)

• Anne Carpenter, Broad Institute
• Cassandra Extavour, Harvard University
• Lillian Fritz-Laylin, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• Hong-Wei Wang, Tsinghua University