Keynote Speaker Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, PhD

Meet Our Closing Keynote Speaker 

Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, PhD, FBS, FRMS, FASCB
Senior Group Leader and Head of 4D Cellular Physiology
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Janelia Research Campus

Keynote Presentation: Harnessing mRNA to Illuminate the Hidden World of Cells
Location: Minneapolis Convention Center
Date: Sunday, April 26, 2026, 10 a.m. CDT

Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, PhD, FBS, FRMS, FASCB, is a senior group leader and head of the Research Program on 4D Cellular Physiology at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Research Campus.

Lippincott-Schwartz has pioneered the use of green fluorescent protein technology for quantitative analysis and modeling of intracellular protein traffic and organelle dynamics in live cells. Her innovative techniques to label, image, quantify and model specific live cell protein populations and track their fate have provided vital tools used throughout the research community.

Lippincott-Schwartz's findings using these techniques have reshaped thinking about the biogenesis, function, targeting and maintenance of various subcellular organelles and macromolecular complexes and their cross talk with regulators of the cell cycle, metabolism, aging and cell fate determination.

Lippincott-Schwartz is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, the American Society of Arts and Sciences and the European Molecular Biology Organization. She is also a fellow of the Biophysical Society, the Royal Microscopical Society and the American Society of Cell Biology.

Her awards include the Dickson Prize, the E.B. Wilson Medal of the American Society of Cell Biology, the Newcomb Cleveland Prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Van Deenen Medal, the Keith Porter Award of the American Society of Cell Biology, the Feodor Lynen Medal, and the Feulgen Prize of the Society of Histochemistry.

Lippincott-Schwartz co-authored the textbook “Cell Biology” and is a past president of the American Society of Cell Biology. Don’t miss Lippincott-Schwartz, who will speak at 10 a.m. CDT on Sunday, April 26, at the closing session of the 2026 American Physiology Summit.