Elisar Barbar, Ph.D.
Alumni Distinguished Professor and HeadDept. of Biochemistry & Biophysics
Oregon State University
Title: "Beyond the Fold: The Surprising Superpowers of Disordered Proteins"

Martin Schwartz, Ph.D.
Robert W. Berliner Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and Professor of Biomedical Engineering and of Cell Biology
Yale University
New Haven, CT
Title: "Mechanotransduction at the Molecular Level"

John Weisel, Ph.D.
Professor of Cell & Developmental Biology
Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
Title: "Fibrin Biomechanics from Nanometers to Centimeters"

Rui Zhang, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, MO
Title: "High-resolution cryo-EM Structures of the Conoid in Toxoplasma Gondii"

Haiqing Zhao, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
University of Texas Medical Branch
Galveston, TX, USA
Title: "Zooming In and Out of Protein-Protein Interactions with Graph-Based Models"