SPRING 2012
Chair: Chris Xu
Colloquia are held in 700 Clark Hall at 4:00 pm on Wednesdays unless otherwise indicated.
Host Instructions pdf
Dates/Speakers: (click on date for seminar information, or scroll down)
January 25, Nan-Shan Chang, National Cheng Kung University
February 1, No Colloquium
February 8, Cynthia A. Reinhart-King, Cornell University
February 15, Michael Trakselis, University of Pittsburgh
February 22, Charles P. Lin, Harvard Medical School
February 29, James Holton, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
March 7, Feng Gai, University of Pennsylvania
March 14, Tae-Hee Lee, Penn State University
March 21, Spring Break, No Colloquium
March 28, Ilya Nemenman, Emory University
April 4, James Fraser, University of California, San Francisco
April 11, Michael F. Brown, University of Arizona
April 18, Canceled
April 25, Tobias Baumgart, University of Pennsylvania
May 2, Michael Woodside, University of Alberta
January 25, 2012
Nan-Shan Chang
Director, Institute of Molecular Medicine, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University
Title: Role of tumor suppressor WWOX in protein aggregation in neurodegeneration
Host: Chris Xu, 255-1460
February 1, 2012
No Colloquium
February 8, 2012, 120 Physical Sciences Bldg.
Cynthia A. Reinhart-King
Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University
Title: The Role of Cell Contractility in Atherosclerosis Progression and Metastasis
Host: Watt Webb, 255-3331
February 15, 2012
Michael Trakselis
Assistant Professor of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh
Title:Protein Complex Assemblies and Activities at the DNA Replication Fork
Host: Brian Crane, 254-8634
February 22, 2012
Charles P. Lin
Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
Title:Cell tracking in live animals: extending intravital microscopy in time and space
Host: Chris Xu, 255-1460
February 29, 2012
James Holton
Faculty Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Assistant Adjunct Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Principal Investigator, University of California, San Francisco
Title: Signal vs. noise, and predicting when your experiment will work
Host: Jeney Wierman, 255-8678
March 7, 2012
Feng Gai
Professor of Chemistry, Physical and Biological Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania
Title: Protein Folding and Functional Dynamics
Host: Peng Chen, 254-8533
March 14, 2012
Tae-Hee Lee
Assistant Professor of Chemistry and the Huck Institute of the Life Sciences, Pennsylvania State University
Title: Single molecule studies on the structure and assembly of nucleosomes
Host: Peng Chen, 254-8533
March 21, 2012
NO COLLOQUIUM, SPRING BREAK
March 28, 2012, 120 Physical Sciences Bldg.
Ilya Nemenman
Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Emory University
Title: Information processing in cellular signaling
Host: Jeney Wierman, 255-8678
April 4, 2012
James Fraser
QB3 Fellow, Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco
Title: Some like it hot: Protein Ensembles from X-ray Crystallography
Host: Rob Thorne, 255-6487
April 11, 2012
Michael F. Brown
Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Arizona
Title: Frustration and Dynamics in Biomembrane Function
Host: Jack Freed, 255-3647
April 25, 2012
Tobias Baumgart
Associate Professor in Physical & Biological Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania
Title: Biophysics of lipid and protein interactions modulated by membrane curvature
Host: Jerry Feigenson, 255-4774
May 2, 2012
Michael Woodside
Assistant Professor, National Institute for Nanotechnology, NRC, and Dept. of Physics, University of Alberta
Title: Observing folding in single protein molecules with optical tweezers: native and non-native pathways in the folding landscape of the prion protein
Host: Jiwoong Park, 254-3339
If you have any questions, please contact colloquium administrator Mark Williams at maw46@cornell.edu, 255-9125.
The Cornell Biophysics Colloquium is supported by generous contributions from Cornell departments and units: Nanobiotechnology Center, Dept of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, School of Applied & Engineering Physics, Dept of Biomedical Science, Physics Dept, Dept of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Biomedical Engineering Program, CHESS, MacCHESS, Dept of Molecular Medicine, Vice Provost for Life Sciences, Vice Provost for Research, College of Engineering, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, and the College of Veterinary Medicine.
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