CORNELL
BIOPHYSICS COLLOQUIA
Fall 2005
Unless
otherwise indicated, Biophysics colloquia start at 4:30 p.m., Wednesdays
in 700 Clark Hall. Refreshments at 4:15.
Biophysics Colloquia Fall 2005 Chair:
David
I. Shalloway
Host
Instructions pdf
Dates/Speakers:
(click on date for seminar information, or scroll down)
September 14,
Daniel Zuckerman, University of Pittsburgh
September 21, Juyang
Huang, Texas Tech
September 28, Holger
Sondermann, Cornell University
October 5, Juan Fontecilla, Institute
of Structural Biology, Grenoble, France
October 12,
Hans
Frauenfelder, Los
Alamos National Laboratory
October 19, Gerhard
Hummer, NIDDK
October 26, Jack
Szostak, Harvard Medical School
November 2, Eric
Vanden-Eijnden, New
York University
November 9, Ailong
Ke, Cornell
University
November 17, Canceled
November 23, No seminar, due to Thanksgiving Holiday.
September 14, 2005
Daniel Zuckerman
Assistant Professor
Department of Computational Biology
School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
http://www.ccbb.pitt.edu/Professor_Websites/Zuckerman/index.htm
Title: Computing
Protein Fluctuations -- Coarse-Grained Models and Beyond
Download Abstract pdf
Host: Ron Elber, 255-7416
September
21, 2005
Juyang
Huang
Associate Professor of Physics
Texas Tech University
http://www.phys.ttu.edu/%7Ehuang24/
Title: Predicting
the behaviors of cholesterol: A thermodynamic approach
Download Abstract pdf
Host: Jerry Feigenson, 255-4744
September
28, 2005
Holger
Sondermann
Department
of Molecular Medicine
Cornell University
Title: Autoinhibition and activation of the Ras activator Son of
Sevenless
Host: Robert Oswald, 253-3877
October
5, 2005
Juan-Carlos
Fontecilla-Camps
Head of the Laboratory of Crystallography
and Crystallogenisis of Proteins
(LCCP)
The Jean-Pierre Ebel Institute of Structural
Biology
Grenoble France
http://www.ibs.fr/content/ibs_eng/presentation/lab/lccp/
Title: Crystallographic
analysis of nickel binding
to the bacterial periplasmic transporter NikA
Host: Steven Ealick, 255-7961
October
12,
2005
Hans
Frauenfelder
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Center for Nonlinear Studies
http://cnls.lanl.gov/External/people/Hans_Frauenfelder.php
Title:
Proteins: Energy Landscape, Fluctuations, and Function
Download Abstract (pdf)
Host: Sol Gruner, 255-3441
October 19, 2005
Gerhard Hummer
The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
(NIDDK)
Theoretical Biophysical Chemistry Section, Senior Investigator
Laboratory of Chemical Physics
http://intramural.niddk.nih.gov/research/faculty.asp?People_ID=1615
Title:
Water, proton, and ion transport: from
nanotubes
to
biomolecular
machines
Host: Marcus Collins,
255-8678
October
26,
2005
Jack
Szostak
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Professor, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
Alex. A. Rich Distinguished Investigator
Department of Molecular Biology,
Massachusetts General Hospital
http://genetics.mgh.harvard.edu/szostakweb/
Title: The
Transition from Chemical Evolution to Darwinian Evolution
Host: Tadhg Begley, 255-7133
November
2,
2005
Eric Vanden-Eijnden
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
New York University
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/
Title: Transition
pathways in complex systems: Application of
the finite- temperature string method
to the alanine dipeptide
Host: Ron Elber, 255-7416
November
9,
2005
Ailong
Ke
Assistant
Professor
Department
of Molecular Biology and Genetics
Cornell University
Title: Chemical
repertoire of RNA in Hepatitis Delta
Virus ribozyme and Signal Recognition Particle
Host: George Hess, 255-4809
November
23, 2005
No
Colloquium
If you have any questions, please contact colloquium administrator Mark
Williams at drbio@cornell.edu,
255-3773.
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 2005
Fall 2004
Spring 2004
Fall 2003
Spring 2003
Cornell
Field of Biophysics
