| September 18 |
Sergei Sukharev, Department of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park. “The Gating Mechanism of the Bacterial Mechanosensitive Channel MscS” |
| September 25 | |
| October 2 | |
| October 9 |
Lori Goldner – Optical Technology Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD. “Optical Interrogation of Single Biomolecules and Molecular Complexes, with Applications to RNA/Protein Complexes” |
| October 16 | Dr. Elliot Elson , Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Washington University in St. Louis. "Can the Collagenase Brownian Ratchet Exert a Significant Force on a Cell?" |
| October 23 |
Dr. Tatiana Rostovtseva – Section on Molecular Transport, Laboratory of Physical and Structural Biology, NICHD, NIH. "Major Mitochondrial Channel, VDAC: Transport Properties and their Regulation" |
| October 30 | Maria Kurnikova – Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. “Molecular Modeling of Structure and Energetics of Ion Channel-Forming Protein-Polysaccharide Complexes” |
| November 6 | TBA |
| November 13 |
Dr. Dyche Mullins – Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco. “The Secret Life of Actin” |
| November 16 |
Bioscience Day Symposium (THURSDAY) "Allostery; Transducing Signals through Biological Macromolecules" Organizer: Dr. Dorothy Beckett, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, CBSO.
SPEAKERS: Dr. Michael Rosen Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Howard Hughes Medical Institute. “Dynamic Origins of Interdomain Cooperativity in the Vav1 Proto-Oncoprotein”
Dr. Robert Batey Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Ligand-induced changes in RNA structure drive riboswitch function"
Dr. March Ostermeier Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University. “Ligand binding and allostery can emerge simultaneously” |
| November 20 | Dr. Arpita Upadhyaya – Institute for Physical Science & Technology, University of Maryland, College Park. “Polymerization and Adhesion in Cellular Movements: Pushing, Pulling and Sticking” |
| November 27 | Dr. Arthur Laporta – Institute for Physical Science & Technology, University of Maryland, College Park. “Observing the Sequence-specific Kinetics of an RNA Polymerase Molecule Using Optical Tweezers” |
| December 4 | Dr. R. Blake Hill, Johns Hopkins University. “A Model for the Membrane-induced Conformational Change of Bcl-xL” |
| December 11 | Dr. Marco Colombini, Biology Department, University of Maryland, College Park. "Ceramide Channels" |
| December 18 |
