CORNELL BIOPHYSICS COLLOQUIA
Fall 2003

Unless otherwise indicated, all Biophysics seminars start at 4:30 p.m. on Wednesdays in 700 Clark Hall. Refreshments at 4:15.

Theme: General Biophysics
Chair: Lois Pollack

Dates: September 10, 17, 24, 25; October 1, 8, 15, 22, 29#1, 29#2;
November 5, 19; December 3, 10

September 10, 2003
Sophia Yaliraki
Department of Chemistry
Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine
Seminar Title: "Peptide aggregation mechanisms in neurodegenerative diseases: insights from coarse-grained dynamics of self-assembling networks"
Website: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/yaliraki/
Hosted by: Harold Craighead, 255-8707

September 17, 2003
David Eliezer
Department of Biochemistry
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Seminar Title: "NMR studies of alpha-synuclein,
and Parkinson's disease associated protein"
Website: http://www.med.cornell.edu/gradschool/fac/eliezer.html
Hosted by: Watt W. Webb, 255-3331

September 24, 2003
J. Richard McIntosh
Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
University of Colorado
Seminar Title: "Electron Tomography: a new window on
cellular organization"
Website: http://mcdb.colorado.edu/website_faculty/mcintosh.gif
Hosted by: Watt W. Webb, 255-3331

September 25, 2003 - Thursday, 4:30 p.m., 700 Clark
Jay X. Tang
Department of Physics
Brown University
Seminar Title: "Physical properties of filamentous protein assembly:
motions, phase transitions, bundles and networks"
Abstract
Website: http://www.physics.brown.edu/Users/Faculty/jxtang/Tang.htm
Hosted by: Michelle Wang, 255-6414

October 1, 2003
Tim Ryan
Department of Biochemistry
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Seminar Title: "Dissecting How Synapses Work"
Website: http://www-users.med.cornell.edu/~taryan/wwweb-docs/
Hosted by: Watt W. Webb, 255-3331

October 8, 2003
William Eaton
Laboratory of Chemical Physics Chief
NIDDK, National Institutes of Health
Seminar Title: "Dynamics of Protein Folding"
Website: http://www.niddk.nih.gov/intram/people/weaton.htm
Hosted by: Lois Pollack, 255-8695

October 15, 2003
Michael Brenowitz
Department of Biochemistry
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Seminar Title: "Combining global and local
measures to follow the folding of RNA"
Website: http://www.aecom.yu.edu/mbrenowitz/
Hosted by: Lois Pollack, 255-8695

October 22, 2003
Harry Haigler
Physiology & Biophysics
University of California, Irvine
Seminar Title: "Global structural changes in annexins:
roles of phospholipids, calcium, and pH"
Website: http://www.ucihs.uci.edu/pandb/haigler/hthres.html
Hosted by: Noa Noy, 255-2490

October 29, 2003, 1:00 p.m.
Vijay Pande
Department of Chemistry
Stanford University
Seminar Title: "Folding@Home: Can non-equilibrium statistical
mechanics and a grid of 100,000 CPUs break fundamental
barriers in molecular simulation?"
Website: http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/
Hosted by: Lois Pollack, 255-8695

October 29, 2003, 4:30 p.m.
Brian Matthews
Institute of Molecular Biology
University of Oregon
Seminar Title: "Tolerance and Intolerance in Protein Structure and Function"
Website: http://www.uoxray.uoregon.edu/main_crystal/matthews/people.html
Hosted by: George Hess, 255-4809

November 5, 2003
Richard Leapman
Supramolecular Structure and Function Resource, DBEPS, ORS
National Institutes of Health
Seminar Title: "Probing supramolecular assemblies
using elastic and inelastic electron scattering"
Website: http://www.nih.gov/od/ors/dbeps/ssfr/leapman.htm
Hosted by: John Silcox, 255-3332

November 19, 2003
Kevin Plaxco
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of California, Santa Barbara
Seminar Title: "My protein folds faster than yours; an experimentalist's view of protein folding theory"
Website: http://www.chem.ucsb.edu/~kwp/group/cv.html
Hosted by: Watt W. Webb, 255-3331

December 3, 2003
Dan Herschlag
Department of Biochemistry
Stanford University School of Medicine
Seminar Title: "Catalysis in the RNA World: Form, Function and Evolution"
Website: http://cmgm.stanford.edu/biochem/herschlag/cv.html
Hosted by: Lois Pollack, 255-8695

December 10, 2003
Brian Crane
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Cornell University
Seminar Title: "Structural bounds on effective protein-protein interactions:
Surprisingly different associations and reactivities for homologous
pairs of proteins"
Website: http://www.chem.cornell.edu/faculty/index.asp?id=23
Hosted by: Watt W. Webb, 255-3331

If you have any questions, please contact colloquium administrator Mark Williams at drbio@cornell.edu, 255-3337.

The Cornell Biophysics Colloquium, founded by Watt W. Webb, is supported by a grant from NIH-NIGMS, "Training in Molecular Physics of Biological Systems," (Barbara Baird, PI); by NIH-NCRR supported Developmental Resource for Biophysical Imaging Opto-Electronics (DRBIO); and by contributions from Cornell departments and units: College of Agriculture & Life Sciences, School of Applied & Engineering Physics, College of Arts & Science, Department of Biomedical Science, Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, MacCHESS, Department of Molecular Biology & Genetics, Department of Molecular Medicine, Nanobiotechnology Center, Office of the Vice Provost for Life Sciences, and Office of the Vice Provost for Research.

Past Seminars: Spring 2003

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