Spring 2008 Biophysics Seminars

 

February 4  
February 11

 

February 18   
February 25

Edwin Taylor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Chicago. “Motors and Muscle Contraction Since 1957: Are we there yet?”

March 3 Allen P. MintonPhysical Biochemistry, Chief, Laboratory of Biochemistry and Genetics NIDDK, NIH.   "How Biochemistry in Vivo can Differ from Biochemistry in Vitro" (survey of crowding, confinement, surface absorption). 
March 10 NO SEMINAR
March 17 NO SEMINAR
March 24

Dr. Vincent Hilser, Sealy Center for Structural Biology & Molecular Biophysics, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston.“Ensemble Allostery and Intrinsic Disorder”

April 7

Tom Lubensky, Chair and Mary Amanda Wood Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania. ."Elasticity and Nonaffinity of Crosslinked Biopolymer Networks"

April 14 Ned S. Wingreen, Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University. "E. Coli's Division Decision: Modeling Min-protein Oscillations"
April 21

Supurna Sinha, Raman Research Institute, Sadashivanagar, Bangalore, INDIA.“Biopolymer Elasticity”

April 28 Joel Tolman, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Chemistry, "NMR Studies of Protein Structure and Dynamics Under Conditions of Weak Alignment"  

April 29 (Tuesday)

Bioscience Research

Building Room 1103

6th ANNUAL BIOPHYSICS SYMPOSIUM

Robert Batey - University of Colorado
Rick Russell - University of Texas, Austin
Olke Uhlenbeck - Northwestern University
Koen Visscher - The University of Arizona
Jamie Williamson - The Scripps Research Inst.
Sarah Woodson - Johns Hopkins University
May 5 Ben Ovryn, Gruss-Lipper Biophotonics Center, Dept. of Anatomy and Structural Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine. "Modeling and Imaging Early Integrin Adhesions"