CORNELL
BIOPHYSICS COLLOQUIA
Spring
2008
Unless
otherwise indicated, Biophysics colloquia start at 4:30 p.m., Wednesdays
in 700 Clark Hall. Refreshments at 4:15.
Biophysics Colloquia Spring 2008 Chair:
Warren
Zipfel
Host
Instructions pdf
Dates/Speakers:
(click on date for seminar information, or scroll down)
February
13,
Canceled due to Snow
February 20,
Chris Schaffer, Cornell University
February 27, Joerg Bewersdorf, University of Maine and The Jackson Laboratory
March
5,
Remy Tumbar, Cornell University
March 12,
Markus Deserno, Carnegie Mellon University
March 19,
No Colloquium, Spring Break
March 26,
Hays Rye, Princeton University
April 2,
Gijsje Keonderink, FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics (AMOLF)
April 9,
No Colloquium
April
16,
David Agard,
University of California, San Francisco
April 17,
Bertil Hille, University of Washington, Note Special Date
April 23, Rick Dahlquist,
University of California Santa Barbara
April
30, Wei
Yang, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
February 13, 2008
Canceled Due to Snow
February 20, 2008
Chris B. Schaffer
Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University
Website
Title: Nonlinear optics for studies of cerebrovascular disease
Host: Watt W. Webb, 255-3331; and Warren R. Zipfel, 255-0663
February 27, 2008
Joerg Bewersdorf
Associate Research Scientist, Institute for Molecular Biophysics, University of Maine and The Jackson Laboratory
Website
Title: 4Pi Microscopy and beyond: 3D
Superresolution Microscopy in Cell Biology
Host: Warren
R. Zipfel, 255-0663
March 5, 2008
Remy Tumbar
Senior Research Associate, Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University
Title: On Developing a Quantitative Phase and Polarization Microscope for Bio-Imaging
Host: George
Hess, 255-4809
March 12, 2008
Markus Deserno
Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University
Website
Title:
Studying membrane mediated interactions by coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulation
Host:
Sarah Veatch, 255-4848
March 19, 2008
No Colloquium, Spring Break
March 26, 2008
Hays S. Rye
Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton
University
Website
Title: In search of control: protein folding, self assembly
and molecular chaperones
Host:
Ruth Collins, 253-4123
April 2, 2008
Gijsje Keonderink
Project leader 'Biological Soft Matter Group', FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics (AMOLF) and guest researcher, VU-Amsterdam, Physics Complex Systems, Amsterdam, NL
Website
Title: Non-equilibrium stress fluctuations in biopolymer networks driven by molecular motors
Abstract
Host: Itai Cohen, 255-0815
April 16, 2008, Note Special Room: 119 Baker Laboratory
David Agard
HHMI Investigator, Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, University of California at San Francisco
Website
Title: Redefining the mechanisms of microtubule assembly and nucleation
Host: George Hess, 255-4809
April 17, 2008, Note Special Date
Bertil Hille
Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington School of Medicine
Website, Brief Biography
Title: Ion channels and electrical excitability of nerve cells are regulated by rare phospholipids of the cell membrane, electrical and optical studies
Abstract
Host: Manfred Lindau, 255-5264
April 23, 2008
Rick Dahlquist
Professor of Biochemistry, University of California Santa Barbara
Website
Title: The Gearbox of the Flagellar Rotary Motor in Bacteria as seen by NMR
Host: Brian Crane, 254-8634
April 30, 2008
Wei Yang, Ph. D.
Section Chief of Structure and Mechanism, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, NIDDK
Website
Title: Stop-action movie of UvrD helicase unwinding DNA 1 base pair at a time
Host: Ailong Ke, 255-3945
If you have any questions, please contact colloquium administrator Mark
Williams at drbio@cornell.edu,
255-3773.
The Cornell Biophysics Colloquium is supported by NIH-NIBIB supported
Developmental Resource for Biophysical Imaging Opto-Electronics (DRBIO);
and by generous contributions from Cornell
departments and units: Nanobiotechnology Center, Dept of Chemistry & Chemical
Biology, School of Applied & Engineering Physics, Dept of Biomedical Science, Physics Dept, Dept of Molecular
Biology and Genetics, Biomedical Engineering Program, CHESS, MacCHESS,
Dept of Molecular Medicine, Vice Provost for Life Sciences, Vice Provost
for Research, College of
Engineering, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, and the College
of Veterinary Medicine.
Recent Past Seminars:
Fall 2007, Spring 2007, Fall
2006,
Spring 2006, Fall
2005, Spring
2005, Fall
2004, Spring
2004, Fall
2003, Spring
2003
Cornell
Field of Biophysics
