Spring 2011 Biophysics Seminars

February 7

Keir C. Neuman, Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, NHLBI, National Institutes of Health,"Mechanism of Collagen Degradation Revealed by Single-molecule Tracking of Matrix Metalloprotease MMP1 on Type-I Collagen Fiber" (D. Thirumalai)

February 14 NO SEMINAR TODAY
February 21 William A. Eaton, National Institutes of Health, "A simple Ising-like model for protein folding" (D. Thirumalai)
February 28 Koby Levy, Weizmann Institute, " "Protein sliding and jumping along DNA," (G. Papoian)

FRIDAY MARCH 4 SPECIAL SEMINAR 2:00PM, IPST 1116

NOTE DAY AND TIME, Samar Mohanty, University of Texas-Arlington, " "Photons take control of structure and function of cellular systems". (G. Papoian)

March 7 NO SEMINAR - BIOPHYSICS SOCIETY MEETING
March 14 Michael Rubinstein, University of North Carolina "Biophysics of Lungs - Molecular Model of the Airway Surface Layer" (G. Papoian)
March 21 NO SEMINAR - SPRING BREAK
March 28 Krystyn J. Van Vliet, MIT, "Chemomechanics of cell-material interactions: Pulling it all together" (J. Seog)
April 4

David Weitz, Harvard University, "Fluctuations and Dynamic Arrest in Cells" (D. Thirumalai)

April 11  
April 18 Sharad Ramanathan, Harvard University, " Understanding how cells choose between different fates: using order parameters to manipulate choice." (D. Thirumalai) CANCELLED
April 25 Jennifer Lee, NHLBI, National Institutes of Health, “The Yin and Yang of Amyloids: Insights from α-Synuclein and the Pmel17 Repeat Domain”(D. Thirumalai)
May 2 Jason Shear, University of Texas, "Defining microscopic environments for small
cellular populations." (John Fourkas)
May 9 Ashok Deniz, Scripps Institute, "Single-Molecule Dynamics and Coupled Binding-Folding of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins" (D.Thirumalai)

FRIDAY MAY 13, 2:30 pm, SPECIAL SEMINAR

 

NOTE DAY AND TIME: Doron Levy, University of Maryland, "Mathematical Models of Leukemia, Cancer Stem Cells, and Drug Resistance" (D. Thirumalai)

THURS JUNE 9, 2:00 pm SPECIAL SEMINAR

NOTE DAY AND TIME: Tamiko Komatsuzaki, Hokkaido University, "A Construction of an Effective Free Energy Landscape from Single-Molecule Timie Series" (J. Seog)