FIRST ANNUAL COHEN FOUNDATION BIOPHYSICS SYMPOSIUM Topic: SINGLE MOLECULES NOVEMBER 17, 2008, 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM MARKER ROOM DEPT. OF CHEMISTRY & BIOCHEMISTRY UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND |
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SPEAKERS AND TITLES |
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| 9:20 am Antoine van Oijen, Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology Harvard Medical School | Under the hood of the replisome: A single-molecule view of DNA replication
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| 10:05 am Arthur La Porta, Biophysics Program at Institute for Physical Science and Technology, and Department of Physics, University of Maryland | Using Optical Tweezers to Measure the Sequence Dependent Kinetics of RNA Polymerase
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| 11:05 am Keir Neuman, Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, NHLBL, NIH | DNA topology and topoisomerases studied with magnetic tweezers: How does topoisomerase IV distinguish left from right? |
| 11:50 am Laura Finzi, Physics Department, Emory University | Elucidation of the mechanism of an epigenetic switch by single-molecule assays |
| 2:05 pm William A. Eaton, Laboratory of Chemical Physics, NIDDK, NIH | Single molecule FRET studies of protein folding |
| 2:35 pm Julio M. Fernandez, Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University | Force-clamp spectroscopy of single proteins |
| 4:10 am Ashok Deniz, Department of Molecular Biology, The Scripps Research Institute | Intrinsically Disordered Amyloidogenic Proteins: Structure and Dynamics at Single-Molecule Resolution |
| RSVP to Caricia Fisher: cjfisher at umd.edu | |