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Sarah Cohen

Applying systems-level spectral imaging and analysis to reveal the organelle interactome.

Assistant Professor, Cell Biology and Physiology
UNC Chapel Hill

Mary Elting

Probing the mechanics of spindle microtubule bundles via laser ablation.

Assistant Professor of Physics,
North Carolina State University

Samara Reck-Peterson

Molecular Mechanisms of Microtubule-based Intracellular Transport.

Professor, Dept. of Cellular and Molecular Medicine and Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego

Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Scott Williams

Canoe feel it? Adherens Junction proteins, tension, and epidermal architecture.

Assistant Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Physiology
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, UNC Chapel Hill

Sarah Goetz

Ciliary signaling in human disease: From neurodegeneration to cancer.

Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, School of Medicine,  Duke University

Functional crosstalk between phosphorylation and caspase proteolysis underlie aberrant processing of GFAP in Alexander Disease and reveal CK2 as a novel disease target.

Rachel Battaglia, Parijat Kabiraj, Karina Kinghorn, Laura Herring, and Natasha Snider.

UNC-Chapel Hill

Regulation of Epidermal Development and Morphogenesis by Cytoskeleton in Differentiated Cells.

Wenxiu Ning and Terry Lechler.

Duke University

Pericentriolar Material Restriction to the Proximal End of Centrioles is Regulated by Transcription and is Essential for Spermiogenesis.

Brian J. Galletta, Jacob M. Ortega, Carey J. Fagerstrom, and Nasser M. Rusan.

NHLBI/NIH

Spatio-temporal regulation of tissue growth in zebrafish scale regeneration.

Alessandro De Simone, L. Hayden, M. Evanitsky, B. D. Cox, J. Wang, Z. Weishampel, A. Chao, K. D. Poss, and Stefano Di Talia.

Duke University

Influence of Cortical Microtubules on Cotton Fiber Elongation and Tip Diameter.

Benjamin P. Graham, Michael R. Stiff, Ethan T. Pierce, and Candace H. Haigler.

North Carolina State University

Muscle specific stress fibers give rise to sarcomeres and are mechanistically distinct from stress fibers in non-muscle cells.

Aidan M. Fenix, Mike R. Visetsouk, Nilay Taneja, Abigail C. Neininger, Ryan J. Garde, Baohong Liu, Benjamin R. Nixon, Annabelle E. Manalo, Jason R. Becker, Scott W. Crawley, David M. Bader, Matthew J. Tyska, Qi Liu, Jennifer H. Gutzman, and Dylan T. Burnett.

Vanderbilt University

An amphipathic helix enables septins to sense micron-scale membrane curvature.

Kevin Cannon, Ben Woods, John Crutchely, and Amy Gladfelter.

UNC-Chapel Hill

Modeling directional treadmilling of bacterial cell division protein FtsZ.

Lauren Corbin and Harold Erickson.

Duke University