Fall 2016 Biophysics Seminars

Joshua Zimmerberg, NIH/NICHD
Hosted by Sergei Sukharev
Title: Lipid/Protein Interactions in Membrane Fission and Fusion
Time: 4:00 - 5:00
Date: Monday September 19, 2016

Yi Jiang, Georgia State University
Hosted by Arpita Upadhyaya
Title: Modeling Cell-ECM Interactions in Cancer Invasion
Time: 4:00 - 5:00
Date: Monday September 26, 2016

Otger Campas, University of California at Santa Barbara
Hosted by Arpita Upadhyaya
Title: Mechanical Control of Cell and Tissue Morphogenesis
Time: 4:00 - 5:00
Date: Monday October 3, 2016

Jose Feijo, University of Maryland College Park
Hosted by Biophysics Program
Title: Excitement on non-excitable cells: glutamate-like receptors and calcium homeostasis in plant cells
Time: 4:00 - 5:00
Date: Monday October 10, 2016

Iqbal Hamza, University of Maryland College Park
Hosted by Sergei Sukharev
Title: Heme Trafficking Pathways from the Ground Up
Time: 4:00 - 5:00
Date: Monday October 17, 2016

Paul Blount, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Hosted by Sergei Sukharev
Title: Quest for the Next Generation of Antibiotics: A Bacterial Mechanosensor, MscL, as a Novel Drug Target
Time: 4:00 - 5:00
Date: Monday October 24, 2016

Arun Yethiraj, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Hosted by Silvina Matysiak
Title: Self-Assembly in Complex Fluids
Time: 4:00 - 5:00
Date: Monday October 31, 2016

Shixin Liu, The Rockefeller University
Hosted by Christopher Jarzynski
Title: Coordination and Division of Labor: Dissecting the Operating Mechanism of a Biological Nanomachine Using Single-Molecule Manipulation
Time: 4:00 - 5:00
Date: Monday November 7, 2016

Gregory Voth, University of Chicago
Hosted by Silvina Matysiak
Title: Theory and Simulation of Biomolecular Systems: The Multiscale Challenge
Time: 4:00 - 5:00
Date: Monday November 14, 2016

Anne Gershenson, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Hosted by Dorothy Beckett
Title: Binding to and Searching Membranes: A Tale of Two Bacterial Virulence Factors
Time: 4:00 - 5:00
Date: Monday November 21, 2016

Jeanne Stachowiak, University of Texas at Austin
Hosted by Silvina Matysiak
Title: Stochastic Mechanisms in Membrane Traffic
Time: 4:00 - 5:00
Date: Monday December 5, 2016