| 1985 |
I. Gibbons (Univ. of Hawaii)
The Role of Dynein ATPase in Microtubule-based Motility |
| 1986 |
Edward D. Korn (NIH)
Structure-Function Studies on the Acanthamoeba Myosin Isoenzymes: Mini-myosins make Mini-Muscles |
| 1987 |
D.J. DeRosier, (Brandeis Univ.)
LIGHTS! CAMERA! ACTIN! |
| 1988 |
James Spudich (Stanford Univ.)
Myosin Structure and Function Explored by in vitro Movement Assays and Molecular Genetics |
| 1989 |
Ralph Yount (Washington State Univ.)
Protein Psychiatry: Glimpse into the Heads of Myosin |
| 1990 |
Thomas Pollard (Johns Hopkins Univ.)
New Functions for Cytoplasmic Contractile Proteins |
| 1991 |
K. Campbell (Univ. of Iowa)
Function Aspects of Dystrophin |
| 1992 |
Evening Speaker: Toshio Yanagida (Osaka Univ.)
Subgroup Chairs: Joseph Chalovich (East Carolina Univ.) and David Warshaw (Univ. Vermont) |
| 1993 |
Andrew Somlyo (Univ. of Virginia)
Excitation-Contraction Coupling, Contractile Regulation and the Cross-Bridge Cycle in Real Muscle |
| 1994 |
Henry Epstein (Baylor College of Medicine)
Critical Processes in Early Muscle Development |
| 1995 |
Susan Lowey (Brandeis Univ.)
Light Chains Revisited |
| 1996 |
Clara Franzini-Armstrong (Univ. of Penn)
Structural Basis of E-C Coupling |
| 1997 |
Ken Holmes (Max-Planck Inst)
How Myosin Works! |
| 1998 |
Thomas Pollard (The Salk Inst for Biological Studies)
Can Kinetics and Mass Action Account for the Dynamics of the Actin Cytoskeleton? |
| 1999 |
Carolyn Cohen (Brandeis Univ.)
Myosin and More |
| 2000 |
Hugh Huxley (Brandeis Univ.)
Trying to Understand How Muscles Contract |
| 2001 |
Bob Simmons (Kings College, UK)
What Single Molecules are Trying to Tell Us |
| 2002 |
Edwin Taylor (Univ. of Chicago)
Theme and Variations |
| 2003 |
Steven M. Block (Stanford Univ.)
E Pur Si Muove |
| 2004 |
Yale E. Goldman (Univ. of Penn)
Myosin Motors: The Original Smart Machines that Conserve Renewable
Energy & Balance the Budget |
| 2005 |
John Kendrick-Jones (MRC)
Probing the Roles of Myosin VI in Membrane Dynamics and Transport Pathways in Cells |
| 2006 |
H. Lee Sweeney (Univ. of Penn)
Myosin VI: A Kinesin Among Myosins |
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2007
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Jim Sellers (NIH/NHLBI)
Touch your Toes! The Key to Myosin Regulation |
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2008
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Roger Cooke (UCSF)
A Random Walk through the Field of Motor Proteins |
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2009
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Professor Kazuo Sutoh (Univ of Tokyo, Japan)
The Old but Still Mysterious Motor Protein |