Minisymposia Co-Chairs by Track
Cells in Distress and Disease
- Martina Bazzaro, Department of Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women's Health, Masonic Cancer Center University of Minnesota
- Roberto Bruzzone, HKU-Pasteur Research Pole, School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
- Jerry Edward Chipuk, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
- Paul de Figueiredo, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Texas A&M Health Science Center
- Raphael Gaudin, CNRS – University of Montpellier, France
- Sophia HL George, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
- Kamena Kostova, Department of Embryology, Carnegie Institution for Science
- Anjana Saxena, Biology Department, Brooklyn College, and Biology/Biochemistry Programs, Graduate Center (CUNY)
- Meng C.Wang, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics and Huffington Center on Aging, Baylor College of Medicine/HHMI
- Marie R. Webster, Lankenau Institute for Medical Research.
Cellular Dynamics
- Peter W. Baas, Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy and Graduate Program in Neuroscience, Drexel University College of Medicine
- Rafael Garcia-Mata, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Toledo
- Pierre Gönczy, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
- Johanna Ivaska, Molecular Cell Biology, Turku Bioscience Center, University of Turku, Finland
- Megan C. King, Department of Cell Biology, Yale School of Medicine
- Mira Krendel, Dept. Cell and Developmental Biology, SUNY Upstate Medical University
- Samantha Cleopatra Lewis, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley
- Le Ma, Department of Neuroscience, Thomas Jefferson University
- Alex Nechiporuk, Department of Cell, Developmental & Cancer Biology, OHSU
- Carolyn M. Phillips, University of Southern California
- Weihong Qiu, Department of Physics, Oregon State University
- Nick Rhind, UMass Medical School
- Minna Roh-Johnson, Department of Biochemistry, University of Utah
- Yasunori Saheki, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- Andrei Smertenko, Washington State University
- Tim Stearns, Department of Biology, Stanford University
- Radhika Subramanian, Harvard Medical School and MGH
- Ronen Zaidel-Bar, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Cellular Genome
- Abigail L. Buchwalter, Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco
- William C. Earnshaw, Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh, UK
- Peter Ly, UT Southwestern Medical Center
- Joseph Rodriguez, Epigenetics & Stem Cell Biology Laboratory, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health
Communal Cell
- Xiaonan Han, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC)
- Purushothama Rao Tata, Department of Cell Biology, Duke University School of Medicine
- Mary N. Teruel, Weill-Cornell Medical College, Cornell University
- Bo Wang, Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University
Physical Cell
- Dennis E. Discher, University of Pennsylvania
- Elizabeth Haswell, Washington University in St. Louis
- Jian Liu, Center for Cell Dynamics, Department of Cell Biology, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
- Yasushi Okada, Laboratory for Cell Polarity Regulation, Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, RIKEN, Japan
- Geraldine Margaret O'Neill, Children's Cancer Research Unit, The Children's Hospital at Westmead and Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Australia
- Amit Pathak, Department of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science Washington University in St. Louis
- Wanda Strychalski, Department of Mathmatics, Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Case Western Reserve University
- Assaf Zaritsky, Department of Software and Information Systems Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Signaling and Metabolism
- Jose Javier Bravo-Cordero, Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology, The Tisch Cancer Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
- Jeanette Gowen Cook, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Brooke Emerling, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
- Mike Henne, Department of Cell Biology, UT Southwestern Medical Center
- Yulia A. Komarova, Department of Pharmacology, University of Illinois College of Medicine
- Damaris N. Lorenzo, Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Alexander Muir, University of Chicago
- Ina Sonnen, Hubrecht Institute, the Netherlands
Specialized Cell and Evolution
- Nicolas E. Buchler, Department of Molecular Biomedical Sciences, North Carolina State University
- Elva Diaz, University of California, Davis
- Annika Guse, Cell Biology of Endosymbiosis, Centre for Organismal Studies Heidelberg, Germany
- Maxwell G. Heiman, Harvard Medical School, Boston Children's Hospital
Education Minisymposium: Teaching Excellence Amidst Uncertainty
- Stephanie Levi Blumer, Department of Biology, Oakton Community College
- Le Paliulis, Department of Cell Biology and Biochemistry, Bucknell University