CORNELL
BIOPHYSICS COLLOQUIA
SPRING 2005
Theme: Interdisciplinary Biophysical/Biomedical
Research
Unless
otherwise indicated, Biophysics colloquia start at 4:30 p.m., Wednesdays
in 700 Clark Hall. Refreshments at 4:15.
Biophysics Colloquia Spring 2005 Chair:
Watt
W. Webb
Host
Instructions pdf
Dates/Speakers:
(click on date for seminar information, or scroll down)
January 26, Sol Gruner,
Cornell University
February 2, Maiken Nedergaard, University
of Rochester
School
of Medicine and Dentistry
February 9,
No Colloquium
February 16, No Colloquium,
due to Biophysical Society Annual Meeting
February 23, Zhuan Zhou, Peking University
March 2, Charles Peskin, New York
University
March 9,
3:30
p.m., Tobias Baumgart, Cornell University
March 16, Tim Ryan,
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
March 23, No Colloquium, due
to Spring Break
March 30, Valerie Daggett, University of Washington
April 6, Gyan
Bhanot,
IBM research, T.J. Watson Research Center
April 13, William
Parson, University of Washington
April 20, TBA
April 27, Jeremy
Pencer, Chalk
River Laboratories
May 4, Peter
E. Prevelige, Jr., The
University of Alabama at Birmingham
May 11, Lukas Novotny, University
of Rochester
January 26, 2005
Sol Gruner
Professor of Physics
Cornell University
Seminar
Title: "Lessons from biomolecules under pressure:
How
proteins react to being squeezed"
Website:
http://bigbro.biophys.cornell.edu/%7Esol/index.html
Introduction at Seminar: Watt Webb,
255-3331
February 2, 2005
Maiken Nedergaard
Professor
University of Rochester
School of Medicine and Dentistry
Seminar
Title: "The role of astrocytes in cortical network activity
revealed by 2-photon
imaging"
Website: http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neursurg/people/faculty/M_Nedergaard.htm
Host: Karl Kasischke, 255-8034
February 9, 2005
No Colloquium
February
16, 2005
NO COLLOQUIUM
February
23, 2005
Zhuan
Zhou
Institute
of Molecular Medicine
Peking University
Beijing, China
Seminar Title: "Ca independent but voltage dependent
exocytosis and endocytosis in a sensory neuron"
Website: http://www.pku.edu.cn
Hosted
by: Manfred Lindau, 255-5264
March
2, 2005
Charles
S. Peskin
Professor
Mathematics Dept
New York University
Seminar Title: "The Role of Elasticity in the Operation
of Biomolecular Motors"
Abstract pdf
Website: http://www.math.nyu.edu/faculty/peskin/
Hosted
by: John Guckenheimer, 255-8290
March
9, 2005, 3:30 p.m.
Tobias
Baumgart
Research Associate
Webb Laboratory, School of Applied & Engineering Physics
Cornell University
Seminar
Title: "Of polka dots and dumbbells: phase behavior
and
bending of biomembranes"
Website: http://www.drbio.cornell.edu
Host: Barbara Baird, 255-4095
March 16, 2005
Tim Ryan
Professor,
Dept. of Biochemistry
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Director Rockefeller/Sloan Kettering/Cornell Tri-institutional
Training
Program in Chemical Biology
Seminar
Title: "Molecular Determinants of Endocytosis Speed
at the Synapse"
Website: http://www-users.med.cornell.edu/%7Etaryan/wwweb-docs/
Hosted
by: Jerry Feigenson, 255-4744
March
30, 2005
Valerie Daggett
Professor of Medicinal Chemistry
Adjunct Professor of Biochemistry
Adjunct Professor of Biomedical and Health Informatics
University of Washington
Seminar
Title: "Mapping the Early Steps in Amyloidosis"
Website: http://depts.washington.edu/~daglab/vd_bio.htm
Hosted
by: Harold Scheraga, 255-4034
April
6, 2005, 701 Clark Hall
Gyan Bhanot
Research Staff Member
IBM research, T.J. Watson Research Center
Visiting Scientist
Dept. of Molecular Biology, Princeton University
Seminar
Title: "Accurate Phenotype Prediction from Gene
Array
and Protein Mass Spec Data"
Website: http://www.research.ibm.com/FunGen/NewFiles/FGgbhanot.htm
Host: Paul Ginsparg, 255-7371
April
13, 2005
William Parson
Professor of Biochemistry
Department of Biochemistry
University of Washington
Seminar
Title: "The Unusual Electron-transfer Dynamics of
Photosynthetic
Bacterial Reaction Centers"
Abstract pdf
Website:
http://depts.washington.edu/wwpweb/home.html
Host: David Wilson, 255-5706
April
27, 2005
Jeremy
Pencer
Visiting Fellow
Chalk River Laboratories
National Research Council, Canada
Seminar
Title: "Neutrons See Domains or So-Called Lipid 'Rafts'
in Lipid Membrane Vesicles"
Abstract pdf
Website: http://neutron.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/people/pencer/
Host: Thalia Mills, 255-4744
May 4, 2005
Peter
E. Prevelige, Jr.
Professor
Department of Microbiology
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Seminar
Title: "Hydrogen/Deuterium Exchange Mass Spectrometry
as a Tool in Structural Virology"
Website:
http://www.microbio.uab.edu/faculty/prevelige/prevelige-p.htm
Host: Volker Vogt, 255-2443
May 11, 2005
Lukas Novotny
Professor
The Institute of Optics
University of Rochester
Seminar Title: "Detection and Characterization of Single Proteins
and Viruses"
Abstract pdf
Website: http://xray.optics.rochester.edu/workgroups/novotny/index.html
Host: Watt Webb, 255-3331
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:
Fall 2004
Spring 2004
Fall 2003
Spring 2003
Cornell
Field of Biophysics
