Peter Satir, a native New Yorker, became interested in ciliary motility when he saw protozoans swimming for the first time at Bronx High School of Science. Satir is currently a distinguished university professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the anatomy and structural biology department, where he researches the mechanisms of primary cilia signaling, evolution of cilia, ciliogenesis, and nanotechnology using molecular motors. The question of how cilia move is a “beautiful basic problem with tremendous implications for evolution,” since cilia are found everywhere from structure to biochemistry to molecular composition. He writes about his research on p. 30.
Judith Stegmueller is the Max Planck Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine in Göttingen, Germany. Her lab studies the ubiquitin-proteasome system’s roles in brain development, including how “misregulation contributes to neurodegeneration and brain disorders.” Stegmueller “got hooked on neuroscience” as an undergrad. “The complexity and ...
