CORNELL BIOPHYSICS COLLOQUIA
   Spring 2006
Unless otherwise indicated, Biophysics colloquia start at 4:30 p.m., Wednesdays in 700 Clark Hall. Refreshments at 4:15.
Biophysics Colloquia Spring 2006 Chair: George Hess

Host Instructions pdf

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

February 8, Robert Thorne, Cornell University
February 15, No Seminar
February 22, No Seminar, Due to Biophysical Society Annual Meeting
March 1, Eduardo Perozo, The University of Chicago
March 8, Winfried Denk, Max Planck Institute
March 15, David Lawrence, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
March 22, Cecile Fradin, McMaster University
March 29, Jerome Mertz, Boston University
March 31 12:30 pm, Ismail Hafez, University of California, Berkeley
April 5, John Straub, Boston University
April 12, Jonathan Widom, Northwestern University
April 19, Robert Stroud, University of California, San Francisco
April 26, Richard E. Gillilan, Cornell University
May 3, 3:00 pm, Anthony Auerbach, SUNY at Buffalo

February 8, 2006
Robert E. Thorne
Professor of Physics, Physics Department, Cornell University
Website at Cornell
Founder, MiTeGen LLC
Title: From Protein Crystallography to Human Reproduction:
Cryopreservation as Art and Science
Host: George Hess, 255-4809

February 15, 2006
No Seminar

February 22, 2006
No Seminar, Due to Biophysical Society Annual Meeting

March 1, 2006
Eduardo Perozo
Professor, Institute for Molecular Pediatric Sciences, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
The University of Chicago
Website
Title: Molecular determinants of gating at the K+ channel selectivity filter
Host: Jack Freed, 255-3647

March 8, 2006
Winfried Denk
Director and Scientific Member, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research
Website
Title: Watching the brain compute and tracing its wires:
new methods to solve old riddles
Abstract
Host: Watt Webb, 255-3331

March 15, 2006
David Lawrence
Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Website
Title: Chemical Biology of Cell Signaling: Exerting Control Over Cellular Biochemistry and Behavior 
Host: George Hess, 255-4809

March 22, 2006
Cecile Fradin
Assistant Professor, Canada Research Chair in Molecular Biophysics
Department of Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University
Website
Title: Assessing interactions between the pro-apoptotic protein Bax and
model lipid membranes
Abstract
Host: Liz Rhoades, 255-3919

March 29, 2006
Jerome Mertz
Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Boston University
Website
Title: New techniques in confocal microscopy
Host: Dan Dombeck, 255-8034

March 31, 2006, 12:30 pm, Corson Mudd Room A106, the Morrison Room
Ismail Hafez
Research Associate
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology
University of California, Berkeley
Website
Title: Dynamics of the SNARE complex in hippocampal presynaptic terminals
Host: Manfred Lindau, 255-5264

April 5, 2006
John Straub
Professor of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry and Biophysics
Department of Chemistry, Boston University
Website
Title: Probing the principles of protein aggregation
Host: David Shalloway, 255-4896

April 12, 2006
Jonathan Widom
Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology
Northwestern University
Website
Title: Chromosome Structure and Gene Regulation
Host: Barbara Baird, 255-4095 or 254-5377

April 19, 2006
Robert Stroud
Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics, Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, University of California San Francisco
Website
Title: A two billion year old tale of membrane transport. It's a gas!
Abstract
Host: George Hess, 255-4809

April 26, 2006
Richard Gillilan
Staff Scientist, MacCHESS, Cornell University
Website
Title: New Opportunities for Structural Biology with Cornell's Energy Recovery Linac
Abstract
Host: Sol Gruner, 255-3441

May 3, 2006, 3:00 pm
Anthony Auerbach
Professor, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, SUNY at Buffalo
Website
Title: The Transition State of a Gating Nanomachine
Abstract
Host: Manfred Lindau, 255-5264