CORNELL
BIOPHYSICS COLLOQUIA
Fall
2006
Unless
otherwise indicated, Biophysics colloquia start at 4:30 p.m., Wednesdays
in 700 Clark Hall. Refreshments at 4:15.
Biophysics Colloquia Fall 2006 Chair:
David
Holowka
Host
Instructions pdf
Dates/Speakers:
(click on date for seminar information, or scroll down)
September 13,
Ulrich Genick, Brandeis University
September 20, Peng
Chen, Cornell University
September
27, Byron
Goldstein,
Los Alamos National Laboratory
October 4,
Gerald Hazelbauer, University
of Missouri-Columbia
October 11, Stephen
Kowalczykowski, UC Davis
October 18, Daniel
Minor, UC San Francisco
October 25, Keith
Moffat,
University of Chicago
November 1, Michelle
Wang, Cornell University
November 8, John R. Silvius, McGill University
November 15, Paul
Selvin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
November 22, No
Seminar due to Thanksgiving
November
29, Erin
D. Sheets, Pennsylvania State University
September 13, 2006
Ulrich
Genick
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, Brandeis University
Website
Title: To
catch a Photon: Structure and conformational dynamics of the
bacterial photoreceptor PYP
Abstract
Host: Brian
Crane, 254-8634
September 20, 2006
Peng
Chen
Assistant
Professor, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University
Website
Title: Bioinorganic
chemistry on a Single-Molecule Basis
Host: Barbara
Baird, 255-4095
Note: This colloquium, though open to the public, is also part of the voting procedure for Biophysics Field membership.
September 27, 2006
Byron Goldstein
Staff Scientist, Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Website
Title: Coupling Target Cells to Natural Killer Cells with Antibodies and Antibody-like Molecules
Abstract
Host: Barbara Baird, 255-4095
October 4, 2006
Gerald Hazelbauer
Professor and Chair of Biochemistry
University of Missouri-Columbia
Website
Title: Identifying Functional Units of Array-forming Transmembrane Receptors with in vitro Assays and Nanodiscs
Host: Brian Crane, 254-8634
October 11, 2006
Stephen
Kowalczykowski
Distinguished Professor of Microbiology and of Molecular & Cellular
Biology
Director, Center for Genetics and Development
University of California, Davis
Website
Title:
DNA Motor Proteins: Structure and Single-Molecule Visualization
Host: Michelle Wang, 255-6414
October 18, 2006
Daniel Minor
Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics and Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, UC-San Francisco
Website
Title: Ion channels in pieces: structural dissection of ion channel function
Host: Brian Crane, 254-8634
October 25, 2006
Keith Moffat
Louis Block Professor in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Deputy Provost for Research
University of Chicago
Website
Title: Signal Transduction in Photoreceptors: Time-Resolved Crystallographic Studies
Abstract
Host: George Hess, 255-4809
November 1, 2006
Michelle Wang
Associate Professor of Physics
Cornell University
Website
Title: Stretching, Twisting, and Unzipping DNA
Host: David Holowka, 255-6140
November 8, 2006
John R. Silvius
Professor, Department of Biochemistry
McGill University
Website
Title: Mechanisms of Subcellular Targeting and Transport of Ras Proteins
Host: Volker Vogt, 255-2443
November 15, 2006
Paul Selvin
Professor of Physics and of Biophysics
John Bardeen Faculty Scholar
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Website
Title: Single Molecule Measurements of Molecular Motors, in vitro & in vivo
Abstract
Host: John Olthoff, 254-4338
November 22, 2006
No Seminar due to Thanksgiving
November 29, 2006
Erin D. Sheets
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry
Pennsylvania State University
Website
Title: Life as a lipid: rafts, dynamics and interactions
Host: David Holowka, 255-6140
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:
Spring 2006, Fall 2005, Spring
2005, Fall
2004, Spring
2004, Fall
2003, Spring 2003
Cornell
Field of Biophysics
