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Annual Biophysics Symposiums

2008 6th Annual Biophysics Symposium

2007 Biomolecular Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

2007 Molecular Motors Day

2006 Allostery: Transducing Signals through Biological Macromolecules

Fall 2005 Biophysics Colloquium

2005 Advances in Membrane Biophysics

Spring 2008 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 25	Edwin Taylor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Chicago. “Motors and Muscle Contraction Since 1957: Are we there yet?”
March 3	Allen P. Minton, Physical Biochemistry, Chief, Laboratory of Biochemistry and Genetics NIDDK, NIH. "How Biochemistry in Vivo can Differ from Biochemistry in Vitro" (survey of crowding, confinement, surface absorption).
March 10	NO SEMINAR
March 17	NO SEMINAR
March 24	Dr. Vincent Hilser, Sealy Center for Structural Biology & Molecular Biophysics, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston.“Ensemble Allostery and Intrinsic Disorder”
April 7	Tom Lubensky, Chair and Mary Amanda Wood Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania."Elasticity and Nonaffinity of Crosslinked Biopolymer Networks"
April 14	Ned S. Wingreen, Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University. "E. Coli's Division Decision: Modeling Min-protein Oscillations"
April 21	Supurna Sinha, Raman Research Institute, Sadashivanagar, Bangalore, INDIA.“Biopolymer Elasticity”
April 28 - CANCELED	Joel Tolman, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Chemistry, "NMR Studies of Protein Structure and Dynamics Under Conditions of Weak Alignment"
April 29 (Tuesday) Bioscience Research Building Room 1103	6th ANNUAL BIOPHYSICS SYMPOSIUM Robert Batey - University of Colorado Rick Russell - University of Texas, Austin Olke Uhlenbeck - Northwestern University Koen Visscher - The University of Arizona Jamie Williamson - The Scripps Research Inst. Sarah Woodson - Johns Hopkins University
May 5	Ben Ovryn, Gruss-Lipper Biophotonics Center, Dept. of Anatomy and Structural Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine. "Modeling and Imaging Early Integrin Adhesions"

Past Seminars

Direct any program related questions to:
Dr. Devarajan (Dave) Thirumalai
Maryland Biophysics Program
1112A IPST
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
thirum at ipst.umd.edu
ph: 301.405.4803

Direct any admission-related questions to:
Ms. Debbie Jenkins
Maryland Biophysics Program
4247 CSS, Building 224
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
dajenkin at ipst.umd.edu
ph: 301.405.4780 | fax: 301.314.9363