FALL 2009
Chair: Prof. Michelle D. Wang
Seminars are held in 700 Clark Hall at 4:30 pm on Wednesdays unless otherwise indicated.
Host
Instructions pdf
Dates/Speakers: (click on date for seminar information, or scroll down)
September 9, Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, NIH-NICHD
September 16, Sushmita Mukherjee, Weill Cornell Medical College
September 23, Alan Grossfield, University of Rochester
September 30, Samuel T. Hess, University of Maine
October 7, Meredith Betterton, University of Colorado
October 14, Yuxin Mao, Cornell University
October 21, Chris Fromme, Cornell University
October 28, John Katsaras, Canadian National Research Council
November 4, Klaus Gawrisch, NIH-NIAAA
November 11, Arnd Pralle, University at Buffalo, SUNY
November 18, Nancy Kleckner, Harvard University
November 25, No Colloquium, Thanksgiving Week
December 2, Ruben L. Gonzalez, Columbia University
September 9, 2009
Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz
Chief of the Section on Organelle Biology in the Cell Biology and Metabolism Branch, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Website
Title: Breakthroughs in imaging using photoactivable fluorescent protein technology
Hosts: Watt W. Webb, 255-3331 and Michelle Wang, 255-6414
September 16, 2009
Sushmita Mukherjee
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, Director of Multiphoton Imaging Facility, Weill Cornell Medical College
Website
Title: Multiphoton imaging using intrinsic tissue signatures in six human organ systems
Host: Watt W. Webb, 255-3331
September 23, 2009
Alan Grossfield
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Rochester Medical Center
Website
Title: Insights into GPCR structure and function from molecular simulation
Host: Jerry Feigenson, 255-4744
September 30, 2009
Samuel T. Hess
Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Maine
Website
Title: Optical Nanoscopy: Breaking the Diffraction Limit
Hosts: Watt W. Webb, 255-3331 and Michelle Wang, 255-6414
October 7, 2009
Meredith Betterton
Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Colorado
Website
Title: Theory of microtubule depolymerization by the kinesin-8 Kip3p
Host: Michelle Wang, 255-6414
October 14, 2009
Yuxin Mao
Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell
University
Website
Title: Phosphoinositide Metabolism in Membrane Trafficking and Cellular Signaling
Host: Jerry Feigenson, 255-4744
October 21, 2009
Chris Fromme
Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell
University
Website
Title: The role of GTPase-dependent membrane coat complexes in vesicle biogenesis and regulated protein trafficking
Host: Jerry Feigenson, 255-4744
October 28, 2009
John Katsaras
Senior Research Officer, Science Group Leader, Canadian Neutron Beam Centre, National Research Council of Canada
Website
Title: A Lipid's Hydrocarbon Chains Can Dictate Cholesterol's Location in Bilayers
Host: Jerry Feigenson, 255-4744
November 4, 2009
Klaus Gawrisch
Section Chief, Section of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Website
Title: How lipids regulate GPCR function
Host: Sarah Veatch, 255-8943
November 11, 2009
Arnd Pralle
Assistant Professor of Physics, University at Buffalo, SUNY
Website
Title: Local membrane heating for remote control of proteins, cells and organisms
Host: Sarah Veatch, 255-8943
November 18, 2009
Nancy Kleckner
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Harvard University Medical School
Website
Title: Getting from biology to physics by way of chromosome
Host: Michelle Wang, 255-6414
November 25, 2009
No Colloquium, Thanksgiving Week
December 2, 2009
Ruben L. Gonzalez, Jr.
Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Columbia University
Website
Title: Translation factor control of ribosome dynamics during protein synthesis
Host: MIchelle Wang, 255-6414
If you have any questions, please contact colloquium administrator Mark
Williams at maw46@cornell.edu,
255-3773.
The Cornell Biophysics Colloquium is supported by NIH-NIBIB supported
Developmental Resource for Biophysical Imaging Opto-Electronics (DRBIO);
and 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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Field of Biophysics
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