CORNELL
BIOPHYSICS COLLOQUIA
SPRING
2004
Unless
otherwise indicated, Biophysics colloquia start at 4:30 p.m., Wednesdays
in 700 Clark Hall. Refreshments at 4:15.
Additionally, a stimulating BMCB mini-course, "Protein-DNA
crosslinking as a tool to investigate cell biological questions,"
took place in March.
Biophysics Colloquia Spring 2004 Chair:
Jerry Feigenson
Dates/Speakers:
(click on date for seminar information)
February 11, Jerry Feigenson, Cornell University
February 25, Klaus Gawrisch, National Institute on
Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
March 3,
Bradley T. Hyman, Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital
March 10, Terence Strick,
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories
March 17, Sarah L. Keller, University of Washington
March 31, Juyang Huang,
Texas Tech University
April 7, Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, Ntl. Inst.
of Child Health & Human Development
April 14, John Katsaras, Chalk River Laboratories
April 21, Ka Yee Lee, University of Chicago
April 28, Bern Kohler, The Ohio State University
May 5, CANCELED
May 12, Stephen H. White, University of California,
Irvine
February 11, 2004
Jerry Feigenson
Professor
of Biochemistry & Physical Biochemistry
Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics
Cornell University
Seminar Title: "A Possibility that Membrane Rafts Do
Not
Exist:
Evidence from Studies of Model Bilayer Mixtures"
Poster pdf
Website: http://www.mbg.cornell.edu/feigenson/feigenson.html
February 25, 2004
Klaus Gawrisch
Chief, Senior Investigator
Laboratory of Membrane Biochemistry and Biophysics
Section of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
National Institute
on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, NIH
Seminar
Title: "Structure and dynamics of biomembranes
with polyunsaturated hydrocarbon chains"
Poster pdf
Website:
http://www.niaaa.nih.gov/intramural/web_lmbb/LMBBnmr/mbbnmr.htm
Hosted
by: Jerry Feigenson, 255-4744
March 3, 2004, 3:30
p.m.
Bradley T. Hyman, M.D., Ph.D.
John B. Penney Jr. Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School
Massachusetts General Hospital
Seminar
Title: "Imaging insights into Alzheimer's disease"
Poster pdf
Website:
http://neuro-oas.mgh.harvard.edu/alzheimers/faculty_and_staff/Clinicians/bradley_hyman.html
Hosted
by: Watt Webb, 255-3331
March
10, 2004
Terence Strick
Cold Spring Harbor Postdoctoral Fellow
Cold Spring Harbor Labs
Seminar
Title: "Detection and control of transcription initiation
at the single-molecule level"
Download Abstract
pdf; Download
Poster pdf
Website:
http://www.cshl.org/public/HT/ws01-staff.html
Hosted
by: Michelle Wang, 255-6414
March
17, 2004
Sarah
L. Keller
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Physics
University of Washington
Seminar
Title: "Spheres that break out in spots:
Immiscible phases in membranes of lipids and cholesterol"
Download Abstract
pdf, Download
Poster pdf
Website:
http://depts.washington.edu/chemfac/keller.html
Hosted
by: Jerry Feigenson, 255-4744
March
31, 2004
Juyang
Huang
Associate Professor of Physics
Texas Tech University
Seminar Title: "The magic of cholesterol: from superlattices
to lipid rafts"
Website: http://www.phys.ttu.edu/~huang24/
Hosted
by: Jerry Feigenson, 255-4744
April 7, 2004
Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz
Principal Investigator, Section on Cell Biology
The Cell Biology and Metabolism Branch (CBMB)
of
the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
Seminar Title: "Insights into molecular compartmentalization
and protein transport using GFP technology"
Website: http://dir2.nichd.nih.gov/nichd/cbmb/sob/index.html
Hosted by: Watt Webb, 255-3331
April
14 , 2004
John
Katsaras
Research
Officer
National Research Council
Chalk River Laboratories
Seminar Title: "Use of Thermal Neutrons to Study Finite-Size
Effects in Lipid Bilayers and the Possibility of 3D Structure
from Quasi-Crystalline Biomaterials"
Download Abstract
pdf
Website: http://neutron.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/people/katsaras/
Hosted
by: Jerry Feigenson, 255-4744
April
21, 2004
Ka Yee Lee
Associate
Professor
Department of Chemistry
The University of Chicago
Seminar Title: "Lipid-Protein Interactions at Interfaces:
From Lung Surfactant to Poloxamer"
Download
Abstract pdf
Website: http://leelab.uchicago.edu/
Hosted by: Barbara Baird, 255-4095
April
28, 2004
Bern Kohler
Associate
Professor
Department of Chemistry
The Ohio State University
Seminar Title: "Nature's Primordial Sunscreens: Ultrafast
Excited
State Dynamics in Nucleic Acids"
Website: http://www.chemistry.ohio-state.edu/~kohler/kohler.html
Hosted by: Watt Webb, 255-3331
May 12, 2004
Stephen H. White
Professor
Department of Physiology and Biophysics
University
of California, Irvine
Seminar Title: "How membranes shape protein structure"
Website: http://blanco.biomol.uci.edu
Hosted by: Jerry Feigenson, 255-4744
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:
Fall 2003
Spring 2003
Cornell Field
of Biophysics
