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	CORNELL BIOPHYSICS COLLOQUIA Fall 2007 Unless otherwise indicated, Biophysics colloquia start at 4:30 p.m., Wednesdays in 700 Clark Hall. Refreshments at 4:15. Biophysics Colloquia Fall 2007 Chair: Manfred Lindau Host Instructions pdf Dates/Speakers: (click on date for seminar information, or scroll down) August 28, Dominik Ho, Ludwig-Maximilians-University September 4, Jürgen Klingauf, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry September 5, Toshiko Ichiye, Georgetown University September 6, Xiaowei Zhuang, Harvard University September 12, Yeon-Kyun Shin, Iowa State University September 19, Jakob Sørensen, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry September 26, John Walsh , University of Massachusetts Medical School October 3, Hedi Mattoussi, US Naval Research Laboratory October 10, Robert Balaban, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute October 17, Kevin Gardner, UT Southwestern Medical Center October 24, Joel Stiles, Carnegie Mellon University October 31, Taekjip Ha, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign November 7, TBA November 14 , Julian Schroeder, University of California, San Diego November 21, *No Colloquium due to Thanksgiving* November 28, Ehud Isacoff, University of California, Berkeley December 5 , Ling-Gang Wu, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke August 28, 2007, Special Date & Time: Tuesday at 4:30 pm Dominik Ho PhD Student in Experimental Physics - Biophysics, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Advisor H.E. Gaub Website Title: The molecular force balance: lab-on-a-chip force spectroscopy Host: Manfred Lindau, 255-5264 September 4, 2007, Special Date & Time: Tuesday at 2:30 pm *Jointly Sponsored by Cornell's Department of Biomedical Engineering* Jürgen Klingauf Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry Website Title: Trafficking and Recycling of Presynaptic Vesicle Proteins Host: Manfred Lindau, 255-5264 September 5, 2007 Toshiko Ichiye Professor, William G. McGowan Chair in Chemistry, Georgetown University Website Title: *Computational Studies of Iron-Sulfur Proteins as Electronic Devices of the Cell* Host: John Brady, 255-2897 September 6, 2007, Special Date & Time: Thursday at 4:30 pm *Jointly Sponsored by Cornell's Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology* Xiaowei Zhuang Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Professor of Physics, Harvard University Website Title: Single-molecule and super-resolution imaging of biomolecules and cells Hosts: Michelle Wang, 255-6414 and Peng Chen, 254-8533 September 12, 2007 Yeon-Kyun Shin Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University Website Title: *Intermediates and regulations of SNARE-mediated membrane fusion* Host: Jerry Feigenson, 255-4774 September 19, 2007 Jakob Sørensen *Jointly Sponsored by Cornell's Department of Molecular Medicine* Group Leader, Molecular Mechanism of Exocytosis, Max-Planck-Institut für biophysikalische Chemie Website Title: The Molecular Mechanism of Fast Exocytosis Host: Manfred Lindau, 255-5264 September 26, 2007 John Walsh, MD Professor of Physiology, Program in Neuroscience, University of Massachusetts Medical School Website Title: Sparks, Syntillas and Secretion Host: Manfred Lindau, 255-5264 October 3, 2007 Hedi Mattoussi Senior Research Physicist, Optical Sciences Division, US Naval Research Laboratory Website Title: Quantum Dot-Bioconjugates: Design, Characterization and Use for Sensing and Live Cell Imaging Host: Frank Wise, 255-1184 October 10, 2007 Robert Balaban Principal Investigator, Laboratory of Cardiac Energetics, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute Website Title: Multiphoton excitation microscopy, In vivo Host: Watt Webb, 255-3331 October 17, 2007 Kevin Gardner Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Website Title: Environmentally-controlled protein/protein interactions: A versatile way to build a biological switch Host: Brian Crane, 254-8634 October 24, 2007 Joel R. Stiles, MD, PhD Director, Center for Quantitative Biological Simulation, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Associate Professor, Mellon College of Science, Carnegie Mellon University Website Title: A Novel Excess Calcium Binding Site Model of Neurotransmitter Exocytosis Host: Manfred Lindau, 255-5264 October 31, 2007 Taekjip Ha Associate Professor of Physics, Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Website Title: Playing extreme sports with single biological molecules Host: Hye Yoon Park, 254-6599 November 7, 2007 No Colloquium November 14, 2007 Julian Schroeder Professor of Biology, University of California, San Diego Website Title: Guard Cell Ion Channel Signaling, CO2, Abscisic Acid and a Model for Calcium Specificity Host: Manfred Lindau, 255-5264 November 28, 2007, Co-Sponsored by the Cornell Neuroscience Program Ehud Isacoff Professor of Neurobiology, Department of Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley Website Title: Engineering light-gated channels for the analysis of the neural basis of behavior Host: Manfred Lindau, 255-5264 December 5, 2007 Ling-Gang Wu Principal Investigator, Synaptic Transmission Unit, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Website Title: Multiple modes of vesicle fusion and retrieval at a calyx-type synapse Host: Manfred Lindau, 255-5264 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 contributi