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

SPEAKERS AND TITLES
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

 

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

 

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