Spring 2009 Seminars

All seminars are in the IPST Building (#085), Room 1116

Refreshments are served at 3:45 p.m. and the seminar starts at 4:00 p.m.

February 11

- SPECIAL BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
Eytan Domany
, Professor, Weizmann Institute of Science “Do Chromosomal Instabilities Cause Cancer?”

February 16 Sergei Sukharev, Professor, Department of Biology, University of Maryland, 'Surfaces and boundaries in the mechano-sensitive channel gating'
February 23 P. Leslie (Les) Dutton, Professor, Departments of Biochemistry  and Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania,   “Marcus and Eyring: Electron Tunneling in electron  transfer chains and oxidoreductase catalysis” (George Lorimer)
March 2 Biophysical Society Meeting - No Seminar
March 9

Faculty Meeting - No Seminar

March 16

SPRING BREAK - No seminar

March 23 (ACS Meeting)
March 30 Eric Westhof, Architecture et Réactivité de l'ARN,  Institut de biologie moléculaire et cellulaire du  CNRS, Université de Strasbourg " Elementary Motifs of RNA  Architecture " ( D. Thirumalai)
April 6

Srinivasa R. Raghavan, Associate Professor, Dept. of Chemical  and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Maryland "Adventures with Soft Matter: From Photorheological
Fluids to Blood- Gelling Biopolymers"

April 13

Feng Gai, Associate Professor of Chemistry Physical and Biological Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania., " Kinetics of peptide folding and aggregation in crowded and confined environments" (D. Thirumalai and students)

April 20

Andrea J. Liu, Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, "Cell Motility driven by Actin Polymerization: A new proposed mechanism" (Michael E. Fisher)

April 27

Brian Matthews, Department of Physics, and Institute  of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon, " "A Talk About Nothing:  Are Non-polar Cavities in Proteins Really Empty?" (Dorothy Beckett)

May 4  

May 7

 

Symposium on Cell Mechanics and Motility, Marker Seminar Room, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry