Fall 2007 Biophysics Seminars

 

September 17 Professor Edward H. Egleman, University of Virginia, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics "Polymorphic Perversity in Protein Polymers" 
September 24

RUSSEL MARKER SYMPOSIUM, 1:30 - 6:00 P.M. Room 0112 CHEMISTRY BLDG., Professor Harry B. Gray, Beckman Institute, Caltech, Department of Chemistry (hbgray@caltech.edu)

October 1 Matthew Thompson, Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park. “Long-Distance Osmotic Behavior of The Sugar-transporting Vascular System in Plants, the Phloem"   
October 8

TBA

October 15 TBA
October 22 Professor Nicole LaRonde-LeBlanc, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park.
October 29 TBA
November 5

NO SEMINAR

November 7

Biophysics Symposium – “Biomolecular NMR”

November 12 Anjum Ansari, University of Illinois at Chicago , Department of Physics "Dynamics of Protein- DNA Interactions Probed with Laser Temperature-Jump: Role of DNA “Bendability” in Site-Specific Recognition"
November 19

Dr. Marius Clore, Laboratory of Chemical Physics, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health. Visualizing Transient Low-population Intermediates by Paramagnetic Relaxation Enhancement”

November 26 Professor Matthew J. Lang, Department of Biological Engineering & Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “Advances in Single Molecule Biophysics and Measurements of Kinesin and Actin Machinery”
December 3 Professor Howard L. Brockman, Biophysics, Hormel Institute, University of Minnesota, Austin. “Independent Regulation of Phospholipid Packing and Electrostatics by Chain Polyunsaturation and Other Structural Features”
December 10 Clare Waterman, Chief, Laboratory of Cell and Tissue Morphodynamics Cell Biology and Physiology Center, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health "Integrating the Cytoskeleton with Adhesion in Directed Cell Migration"
December 17 Robert Balaban, Laboratory Chief, Laboratory of Cardiac Energetics, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) “The Systems Biology of the Mammalian Mitochondria”