CORNELL BIOPHYSICS COLLOQUIA     
FALL 2004

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


Biophysics Colloquia Fall 2004 Chair: Jianhua Fu

Dates/Speakers: (click on date for seminar information, or scroll down)

August 9, Lene Oddershede, Niels Bohr Institute
September 1, Jayant B. Udgaonkar, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
September 8, No colloquium, Labor Day week
September 15, Jay T. Groves, UC Berkeley
September 22, No Colloquium
September 29, Smita Patel, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
October 6, special time, David Nelson, Harvard
October 6, Grant Jensen, Caltech
October 13, No Colloquium
October 20, David Worcester, University of Missouri-Columbia
October 27, John F. Marko, University of Illinois at Chicago
November 3, Glenn A. Held, Watson Research Center, IBM
November 8, special date, Gregor Dernick, Hoffman La Roche, Basel, Switzerland
November 10, Michael Kotlikoff, Cornell University
November 17, Elliot Elson, Washington University School of Medicine
November 24, No colloquium, Thanksgiving Day week
December 1, James R. Faeder, Los Alamos National Laboratory
December 8, Quan Hao, Cornell University

August 9, 2004
Lene Oddershede
Associate Professor
The Niels Bohr Institute
Copenhagen, Denmark
Seminar Title: "Optical manipulation of living organisms from
the single molecule to the whole cell level"
Website: http://www.nbi.dk/~odder
Hosted by: Michelle Wang, 255-6414

September 1, 2004
Jayant B. Udgaonkar
Professor
National Centre for Biological Sciences
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Bangalore, India
Seminar Title: "Heterogeneity in Protein Folding Reactions"
Website: http://www.ncbs.res.in/~faculty/jayant.html
Hosted by: George Hess, 255-4809

September 15, 2004
Jay T. Groves
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry
UC Berkeley
Seminar Title: "Spatial pattern formation in cell membranes:
dissecting its role in signal transduction"
Website: http://www.cchem.berkeley.edu/jtggrp/
Hosted by: Watt Webb, 255-3331

September 22 , 2004
NO COLLOQUIUM

September 29, 2004
Smita Patel
Professor of Biochemistry
University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Seminar Title: "Unzipping the Mysteries of the Helicase Protein"
Website: http://www2.umdnj.edu/bchemweb/HTML/PatelNEW.html
Hosted by: Michelle Wang, 255-6414

October 6, 2004, 1:30 p.m.
David R. Nelson
Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics
Department of Physics
Harvard University
Seminar Title: "Plateaus and jumps in single-molecule
biophysics experiments"
Website: http://physics.harvard.edu/nelson.htm
Hosted by: Joel Brock, 255-0639

October 6, 2004, 4:30 p.m.
Grant Jensen
Assistant Professor of Biology
California Institute of Technology
Seminar Title: "Imaging individual protein complexes, viruses, and cells
in 3D by cryoelectron tomography"
Website: http://www.br.caltech.edu/jensengrp/Jensen_Lab.shtml
Hosted by: Jianhua Fu, 255-8392

October 13, 2004
No Colloquium

October 20, 2004
David Worcester
Professor of Cellular, Molecular and Developmental Biology
Division of Biological Sciences
University of Missouri - Columbia
Seminar Title: Structure and Dynamics in Lecithin/Cholesterol
Membranes Determined by Neutron Diffraction
Website: http://www.biosci.missouri.edu/worcester/LabHome.html
Host: Jerry Feigenson, 255-4744

October 27, 2004
John F. Marko
Associate Professor
Department of Physics
The University of Illinois at Chicago
Seminar Title: Micromechanical study of protein-DNA interactions
and chromosome structure
Website: http://www.uic.edu/~jmarko
Hosted by: Michelle Wang, 255-6414

November 3, 2004
Glenn A. Held, Ph.D.
Research Staff Member
T.J. Watson Research Center, IBM
Seminar Title: "Biofunctionalization of magnetic nanoparticles and incorporation of same into a magnetic tunnel junction based biosensor"
Website: http://www.research.ibm.com/
Hosted by: Joel Brock, 255-0639

November 8, 2004, 4:30 p.m., 700 Clark Hall
Gregor Dernick, Ph.D.
Research Scientist
Hoffman La Roche, Basel, Switzerland
Seminar Title: "Micropatterning of DNA and proteins for analysis
of molecular interactions"
Website: http://www.roche.com/home/countries/cou_headq.htm
Hosted by: Manfred Lindau, 255-5264

November 10, 2004
Michael Kotlikoff
Professor and Chair,
Department of Biomedical Sciences
College of Veterinary Medicine
Cornell University
Seminar Title: Construction and Use of Genetic Signaling Molecules
for Probing Cell Function In Vivo
Website: http://web.vet.cornell.edu/public/BioSci/new/vbs_facultykotlikoff.html
Host: Jerry Feigenson, 255-4744

November 17, 2004
Elliot Elson
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
Washington University School of Medicine
Seminar Title: "ATP-independent Directed Motion of a Collagenase Enzyme
on Collagen fibers. Is it a Motor?"
Website: http://biochem.wustl.edu/~elelab/ele.htm
Hosted by: Watt Webb, 255-3331
and David Wilson, 255-5706

December 1, 2004
James R. Faeder, Ph.D.
Technical Staff Member
Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Group
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Seminar Title: Mathematical and Computational
Modeling of Signal Transduction
Website: http://www.t10.lanl.gov/faeder
Host: David Holowka, 255-6140

December 8, 2004
Quan Hao
Director
MacCHESS
(Macromolecular Diffraction Facility at the Cornell High Engergy Synchrotron Source)
Cornell University
Seminar Title: Macromolecular phasing by Single-wavelength
Anomalous Diffraction (SAD) or from an envelope
Website: http://staff.chess.cornell.edu/~hao/
Host: Sol Gruner, 255-3441

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

The Cornell Biophysics Colloquium 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 generous contributions from Cornell departments and units: Nanobiotechnology Center, Dept of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Dept of Biomedical Science, Physics Dept, Dept of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Biomedical Engineering Program, CHESS, MacCHESS, Vice Provost for Life Sciences, Vice Provost for Research, College of Engineering, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, and the College of Veterinary Medicine.

Past Seminars:
Spring 2004
Fall 2003
Spring 2003

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