The Rising Stars in Cell Biology Symposium

Abstract Guidelines

• Abstract must contain: Title, Keywords (5 max), Presenting Author
• Main text should include background, methods, results, and impact
• Main text character limit: 2000 characters (including spaces)

If you do not have research experience and would like to apply, you will be asked to describe how you will benefit from attending the symposium.

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Registration deadline: March 25, 2025 @ 11:59pm 

Erin Goley, PhD
Professor of Biomedical Chemistry
Johns Hopkins University

Erin received her BA in biochemistry and mathematics from Hood College in Frederick, MD then pursued doctoral training with Matt Welch at the University of California at Berkeley. During her PhD, Erin studied mechanisms of actin nucleation and pathogen hijacking of host actin, notably discovering mechanisms of viral-induced nuclear actin assembly. For her postdoctoral training, she moved to the world of bacterial cell biology, working with Lucy Shapiro at Stanford University. There, she established the assembly pathway of the bacterial cell division machinery at unprecedented temporal resolution and discovered novel essential regulators of bacterial cytokinesis. In her lab at Johns Hopkins, Erin continues to study fundamental mechanisms of bacterial growth and adaptation through the lens of cell biology in both pathogenic and model bacteria. Erin is a Fellow of the American Society for Cell Biology and an inaugural Randall Reed Scholar.

Hari Shroff, Ph.D.
Janelia Senior Group Leader
Janelia Research Campus

Dr. Hari Shroff received a B.S.E. in bioengineering from the University of Washington in 2001, and under the supervision of Dr. Jan Liphardt, completed his Ph.D. in biophysics at the University of California at Berkeley in 2006. He spent the next three years performing postdoctoral research under the mentorship of Eric Betzig at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Farm Research Campus where his research focused on development of photoactivated localization microscopy (PALM), an optical super-resolution technique. Shroff began his independent career at the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, where he headed the Laboratory of High-Resolution Optical Imaging for 13 years. During this time, Shroff and his colleagues pioneered structured illumination microscopy (SIM)-, multi-view light-sheet fluorescence microscopy (LSFM)-, and computational approaches well-suited for providing subcellular resolution at rapid frame rates in living cells and tissue. In 2022, Shroff returned to Janelia as a Senior Group Leader. His current research interests include further improving the capabilities of fluorescence microscopy, especially by incorporating machine learning methods. He also places key emphasis on applying the tools he develops to outstanding problems in biology, and is particularly interested in applying microscopy and computation to study brain development in C. elegans.