Maxence Nachury, PhD Associate Professor, Ophthalmology University of California San Francisco Research Focus: Primary cilium, a surface-exposed organelle required for vision, olfaction and developmental signaling and whose dysfunction leads to obesity, skeletal malformations and kidney cysts.
Tomas Kircchausen, PhD Springer Family Chair | Senior Investigator, Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine (BCH) Harvard University Medical School Research Focus: Molecular mechanisms that underlie the cells sorting machineries responsible for receptor-mediated endocytosis and for secretion, and how they are highjacked by toxins, viruses and bacterial pathogens to enter cells. We also study how … Read more
Benjamin L. Prosser, PhD Assistant Professor of Physiology The Perelman School, University of Pennsylvania Research Focus: How cell stress and strain regulate intracellular calcium homeostasis and signaling through reactive oxygen species (ROS).
Zayna King (Jim Bear Lab) AND Melissa Plooster (Pat Brennwald/Stephanie Gupton Labs)
Brenda Kostelecky, PhD Director Cascadia Data Alliance at Fred Hutch Career Focus: Developing innovative and strategic research-strengthening and policy initiatives. Background in diverse biomedical science disciplines including basic cancer biology and cell signaling pathyways, structural biology, public health, behavioral health, and global cancer research.
Paola Arlotta, PhD The Golub Family Professor and Chair Harvard University Research Focus: Understanding molecular laws that govern the birth, differentiation and assembly of the human brain’s cerebral cortex.
Lynne E. Maquat, PhD Lowell Orbison Endowed Chair and Professor University of Rochester Research Focus: Utilization of biochemistry, molecular biology, structural biology, genome editing, transcriptomics, proteomics and computational biology to study RNA metabolism in human health and disease.
Eva N. Grayck, MD Professor of Pediatrics – Critical Care Medicine University of Colorado Denver Anschutz Medical Campus Research Focus: The role of redox regulated signaling pathways in the contribution of pulmonary vascular diseases.
James Olzmann, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Nutrition Sciences & Toxicology University of California - Berkeley Research Focus: Understanding how lipid droplet proteome is established and regulated, howe lipid droplet interact and communicate with other organelles, and the potential to manipulate lipotoxic pathways to therapeutically target cancer.