Seminar Series
Spring 2013
Department of Physiology and Biophysics Seminar Series
Tuesdays 1:30, Room R103
| Date | Speaker | Title & Host |
| 1/10/13
*Special Seminar: Thursday in Rm. R-115 |
Lynne M. Coluccio, PhD Boston Biomedical Research Institute |
Mammalian class I myosins: Myo1c in adaptation in the inner ear and cell-cell contact (Host: Andy Zoeller) |
| 1/22/13 | Celia Schiffer, PhD University of Massachusetts Medical School |
Combating Drug Resistance: Lessons from the Viral Proteases of HIV-1 and HCV (Host: Olga Gursky) |
| 1/29/13 | Stefan Raunser, PhD Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology |
A Structural Biologist Looks at Molecular Life and Death of a Bug (Host: Bill Lehman) |
| 2/19/13 | Robert Griffin, PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
High Resolution Studies of Amyloid Fibrils (Host: Graham Shipley) |
| 2/26/13 | Mikel Garcia-Marcos, PhD Boston University School of Medicine |
Discovering Novel G Protein Signaling Circuits: Implications in Cancer Metastasis (Host: David Atkinson) |
| 3/12/13 | Melissa Moore, PhD University of Massachusetts Medical School |
Structure and Dynamics of Uber Complex RNPs (Host: Assen Marintchev) |
| 3/19/13 | Daniel Oprian, PhD Brandeis University |
Structure and Mechanism of Proteins from the Rod Cell Phototransduction Cascade (Host: Carter Cornwall) |
| 4/2/13 | James Rothman, PhD Yale University School of Medicine |
The Mechanism of Membrane Fusion and its Regulation for Quantal Synaptic Transmission (Host: Graham Shipley/David Harris) |
| 4/9/13 | Maureen Estevez, PhD Brown University |
A Visual System in Vestibular Coordinates: The role of ON-type Direction-Selective Retinal Ganglion Cells in Retina and Brain (Host: Carter Cornwall) |
| 4.23/13 | Jorge Haller, PhD Massachusetts General Hospital |
Role of the ABCA12 Lipid Transporter in Skin Ceramide Biosynthesis (Host: Andy Zoeller) |
| 5/14/13 | David Stokes, PhD Skirball Institute |
TBA (Host: Esther Bullitt) |
Additional Boston area seminars
Fall 2012
Department of Physiology and Biophysics Seminar Series
Tuesdays 1:15, Room R103
| Date | Speaker | Title & Host |
| 9/25/12 | Nikolaus Grigorieff, PhD Brandeis University |
Restoring high-resolution contrast in images affected by beam-induced motion (Host: Chris Akey) |
| 10/9/12 | John Condeelis, PhD Albert Einstein College of Medicine |
Mechanism-based insights into prognosis and treatment of breast cancer derived from high resolution multiphoton imaging (Host: Bill Lehman) |
| 10/23/12 | Michael Reedy, PhD Duke University |
Time-Resolved Molecular Dynamics of Stretch Activation, Length-Dependent Activation and Force Generation in Insect Flight Muscle and Mammalian Heart (Host: Bill Lehman) |
| 11/13/12 | John Hartwig, PhD Harvard Medical School |
The Filamins, organizers of cell structure, mechanics and function (Host: Bill Lehman) |
| 11/20/12 | Tim Gardner, PhD Boston University, Biology Dept. |
Neural circuits and their development: vocal learning in songbirds (Host: Chris Gabel) |
| 11/27/12 | Wolfgang Peti, PhD Brown University |
Structural mechanics and function of large protein signaling complexes (Host: Assen Marintchev) |
| 12/4/12 | Michael Previs, PhD University of Vermont |
The molecular mechanics of cardiac myosin-binding Protein C in the modulation of cardiac contractility (Host: Jeff Moore/Bill Lehman) |
| 12/11/12 | Adam Cohen, PhD Harvard University |
Optical electrophysiology with microbial rhodopsins (Host: Chris Gabel) |
| 12/18/12 *To be held in Kiefer Auditorium* |
Jack Szostak, PhD | TBA (Host: James Hamilton) |
Additional Boston area seminars
Spring 2012
Department of Physiology and Biophysics Seminar Series
Tuesdays 1:15, Room R115
| Date | Speaker | Title & Host |
| 1/17/12 | Didem Vardar, PhD Wellesly College |
It is all in the details: Probing Notch regulation one amino acid at a time (Host: Jamie McKnight) |
| 1/24/12 | Allen Ehrlicher, PhD Harvard University |
Molecular Mechanotransduction: How forces trigger cytoskeletal dynamics (Host: Jeff Moore) |
| 1/31/12 | David Weitz, PhD Harvard University |
Fluctuations and Dynamics arrest in cells (Host: Bill Lehman) |
| 2/21/12 | Bert Van Den Berg, PhD U Mass Medical School |
Outer membrane uptake channels for small molecules in Pseudomonas aeruginosa : Why so many? (Host: Chris Akey) |
| 3/6/12 | Ty Chang, PhD Dartmouth Medical School |
Cellular cholesterol esterification in atherosclerosis and neurodegenerative diseases (Host: Andy Zoeller) |
| 3/13/12 | Nurit Haspel, PhD U Mass Boston |
Conformational exploration and self-assembly of protein molecules (Host: Barbara Seaton) |
| 3/20/12 | No Seminar | |
| 3/27/12 | Sandor Vajda, PhD Boston University |
TBA (Host: Barbara Seaton) |
| 4/24/12 | Douglas Golenbock, PhD UMass Medical School |
TBA (Host: Andy Zoeller) |
| 5/15/12 | Athar Chishti, PhD Tufts University School of Medicine |
Regulation of Cell Polarity (Host: Jamie McKnight) |
Additional Boston area seminars
Fall 2011
Department of Physiology and Biophysics Seminar Series
Tuesdays 1:15, Room R103
| Date | Speaker | Title & Host |
| 9/13/11 | Rahm Gummuluru, PhD BU School of Medicine |
Parasitization of Dendritic Cell Functions by HIV (Host: Andy Zoeller) |
| 9/27/11 | Roberto Dominguez, PhD University of Penn School of Medicine |
Structure-Function of Actin Filament Assembly (Host: Bill Lehman) |
| 10/4/11 | Natalia Beglova, PhD Harvard Medical School |
On the way to understanding molecular mechanisms of antiphospholipid syndrome (Host: Olga Gursky) |
| 10/11/11 | Zemin Yao, PhD University of Ottawa |
New insights into structure/function relationship within human apoB (Host: Jamie McKnight) |
| 10/18/11 | Dan Kirschner, PhD Boston College |
Nerve Myelin: A New Rap On An Old Wrap – Pushing the Boundaries of Analysis (Host: Esther Bullitt) |
| 10/25/11 | David W. Christianson University of Pennsylvania |
Evolutionary Divergence of Structure and Function in Arginase, Histone Deacetylase, and Polyamine Deacetylase (Host: Barbara Seaton) |
| 11/1/11 | Bob Murphy, PhD University of Colorado |
TBA (Host: Andy Zoeller) |
| 11/8/11 | David Berson, PhD Brown University |
TBA (Host: Carter Cornwall) |
| 11/15/11 | John Engen, PhD Northeastern University |
Hydrogen exchange mass spectrometry to probe the conformation of proteins both in solution and in membranes (Host: Esther Bullitt) |
| 12/6/11 | Jim Baleja, PhD Tufts University School of Medicine |
Structure and Function of EH domain Interactions in Endocytosis and Cell Signaling (Host: Barbara Seaton) |
| 12/14/11 in rm. L301 |
Peter Gunning, PhD University of New South Wales |
Tropomyosin diversifies actin cytoskeleton function in time and space and is a new target for chemotherapy (Host: Bill Lehman) |
Additional Boston area seminars
Spring 2011
Department of Physiology and Biophysics Seminar Series
Tuesdays 1:15, Room R115
| Date | Speaker | Title & Host |
| 1/4/11 | No Seminar |
|
| 1/11/11 | Suzanne Walker, PhD Harvard Medical School |
Structure and Inhibition of Human O-GlcNAc transferase (Host: Jamie McKnight) |
| 1/18/11 | Charles Serhan, PhD Brigham and Women’s Hospital |
Functional Metabolomics Uncover Novel Lipid Mediators in Resolving Inflammatory Exudates (Host: Donald M. Small) |
| 1/25/11 | Peter B. Moore, PhD Yale University |
Conformational Contributions to Antibiotic Resistance: Lessons Learned from the Ribosome (Host: Graham Shipley) |
| 2/1/11 | Gerhard Wagner, PhD Harvard University |
NMR studies of membrane proteins (Host: Assen Marintchev) |
| 2/8/11 | No Seminar |
|
| 2/15/11 | Frank McCormack, MD University of Cincinnati |
Antimicrobial Functions of the Pulmonary Collectins (Host: Barbara Seaton) |
| 2/22/11 | Michael H. A. Roehrl, MD, PhD | Patholgy of Cancer (Host: Assen Marintchev) |
| 3/1/11 | David Berson, PhD Brown University |
TBA (Host: Carter Cornwall) |
| 3/8/11 | No Seminar | |
| 3/15/11 | John D. Gross, PhD UCSF |
Insights into the structure, activity and control of HIV Vif (Host: Assen Marintchev) |
| 3/22/11 | Tatyana Svitkina, PhD University of Pennsylvania |
Roles of Non-Muscle Myosin II in Protrusion, Adhesion and Contraction (Host: Bill Lehman) |
| 3/29/11 | Shujun Yuan, PhD Boston University |
Structure and function of the apopt (Host: Christopher Akey) |
| 4/5/11 | Corey Wilson, PhD Yale University |
Assembling a Molecular Switch: Reconciling Protein Folding And Design of a Complex System (Host: Jamie McKnight) |
| 4/12/11 | Daniel Rossignol, PhD Eisai Product Creation Systems |
In vitro, in vivo and clinical development of a Toll-like receptor-4 antagonist (Host: Graduate Students) |
| 4/19/11 | Albert Wang, PhD BBRI |
Actin Dynamics and Its Regulation by Caldesmon (Host: Bill Lehman) |
| 4/26/11 | Michael Welte, PhD University of Rochester |
Fat, flies and videotape: Dynamic lipid droplets in Drosophila embryos (Host: Donald M. Small) |
| 5/3/11 | Xinchao Yu, PhD Research Fellow, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Structural Biology Program Sloan-Kettering Institute |
Functional and Structural Studies of the Complex Between Coatomer and Arfl (Host: Chris Akey) |
| 5/10/11 | Michael Rynkiewicz, PhD Boston University School of Medicine Department of Physiology and Biophysics |
Mechanisms of Interaction Between Surfactant Protein-D and Influenza A Virus Hemagglutinin (Host: Jim Head) |
| 5/17/11 | Jonathan Soboloff, PhD Temple University School of Medicine Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry Fels institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Biology |
Mechanisms Regulating STIM Expression and Function in Ca² Signaling (Host: R. Andrew Zoeller) |
Additional Boston area seminars
Fall 2010
Department of Physiology and Biophysics Seminar Series
Tuesdays 1:15, Room R103
| Date | Speaker | Title & Host |
| 9/28/10 | Christopher Fang-Yen, PhD Harvard University, Department of Physics |
Optical dissection of behavior in C. elegans
(Host: Christopher Gabel) |
| 10/05/10 | No Seminar |
|
| 10/12/10 | Karen Allen, PhD CAS, Dept of Chemistry Boston University |
Uncovering new functions in a super family of phosphatases (Host: Carter Cornwall) |
| 10/19/10 | No Seminar | |
| 10/26/10 | Deborah Perlstein, PhD Boston University, CAS Chemistry |
Microbe, Microbe, toxic microbe, How does your cell wall grow? (Host: Bill Lehman) |
| 11/2/10 | Thomas Charles Pochapsky, PhD Brandeis University Department of Chemistry |
Are you my substrate? NMR insights into enzyme-substrate interactions (Host: Barbara Seaton) |
| 11/9/10 | Jim Hogle, PhD Harvard Medical School BU School of Medicine, Department of Biology |
TBA
|
| 11/16/10 | Carlos Fernandez-Hernando, PhD NY University School of Medicine |
miR-33 as a Therapeutic target for metabolic syndrome? (Host: Donald Small) |
| 11/23/10 | No Seminar | |
| 11/30/10 | Rosalie K. Crouch, PhD Medical University of South Carolina Opthalmology |
TBA (Host: Carter Cornwall) |
| 12/7/10 | Dagmar Ringe, PhD Brandeis University Departments of Biochemistry and Chemistry |
TBA
|
| 12/14/10 | No Seminar | |
| 12/21/10 | No Seminar | |
Additional Boston area seminars
Spring 2010
Department of Physiology and Biophysics Seminar Series
1:00-2:20pm
Rm R115
Last update 7 January 2010
| Date | Speaker | Title & Host |
| 1/19/10 | Samara Reck-Peterson, PhD Harvard University, Department of Cell Biology |
Walking Mechanism of Cytoplasmic Dynein (Host: Dr. Bill Lehman) |
| 1/26/10 | Andres Leschziner, PhD Harvard University, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology |
Structural studies of ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling (Host: Dr. Christopher Akey) |
| 2/09/10 | John Straub, PhD Dept of Chemistry Boston University |
Exploring the role of sequence and environment in the early stages of the protein aggregation pathway
|
| 4/6/10 | Vladimir Kefalov, PhD Dept Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Washington University School of Medicine |
Cone visual cycle in the vertebrate retina? (Host: Dr. Carter Cornwall) |
Additional Boston area seminars
Fall 2009
Department of Physiology and Biophysics Seminar Series
1:00-2:20pm,
Rm L301
Last update 24 August 2009
| Date | Speaker | Title & Host |
| 09/29/09 | John Straub, PhD Dept of Chemistry, Theoretical & Computational Chemistry & Biophysics BU |
TBA (Host: Dr. Barbara Seaton) |
| 10/13/09 | Donald M. Engelman, PhD Dept of Molecular Biology and Biophysics Yale University |
TBA (Host: Dr. Graham Shipley) |
| 10/20/09 | Reid Gilmore, PhD Dept of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology UMass Medical School |
TBA (Host: Dr. Christopher Akey) |
| 10/27/09 | Michael C. Phillips, PhD Dept of Pediatrics UPenn |
TBA (Host: Dr. Donald M. Small) |
| 11/03/09 | Douglas M. Swank, PhD Dept of Biology RPI |
TBA (Host: Dr. Jeff Moore) |
| 11/10/09 | Uwe Beffert, PhD Dept of Biology BUSM |
TBA (Host: Dr. Donald M. Small) |
| 11/17/09 | Osamu Shimomura, PhD BUSM Professor Emeritus |
Special Seminar 3pm in the 670 Albany St. Auditorium |
| 12/15/09 | Bruce Furie, MD, PhD
BIDMC |
TBA (Host: Dr. Barbara Seaton) |
Additional Boston area seminars
Spring 2009
Department of Physiology and Biophysics Seminar Series
1:00-2:20pm,
NEW ROOM: 670 Albany St, Rm 107/108
Last update 5 February 2009
Please contact Dr. Haya Herscovitz (haya@bu.edu) with any questions.
| Date | Speaker | Title & Host |
| 01/13/09 | Monte Krieger, Ph.D. Dept. of Biology MIT |
Charting the Fate of the ‘Good Cholesterol’ – Characterization of the HDL receptor SR-BI and its influence on Coronary Heart Disease
|
| 01/20/09 | Dawn Braseamle, Ph.D. Dept. of Nutritional Sciences Rutgers University |
Lipid Droplet-Associated Proteins Control Triacylglycerol Metabolism
|
| 02/03/09 | Mary Roberts, Ph.D. Merkert Chemistry Center Boston College |
Akt and PTEN: the yin and yang of signaling
|
| 02/10/09 | Jane Kondev, Ph.D. Dept. of Physics Brandeis Univ. |
Geography of bacterial chromosomes |
| 02/17/09 | Sunney Xiaoliang Xie, Ph.D. Dept. of Chemistry & Chem. Biol. Harvard Univ. |
Holding Life Processes up to the Light, at the Single-Molecule Level
|
| 2/24/09 | Lila Geirasch, Ph.D.
Dept. of Biochem & Mol Biol, Dept of Chem |
(Host: Dr. James McKnight) |
| FRIDAY 02/27/09 |
Alexey Ladokhin, Ph.D. Dept. Biochem. & Mol. Biol. Kansas Univ. Medical Center |
Thermodynamics of pH-Triggered Membrane Protein Insertion: what can we learn about membrane protein stability? (Host: Dr. Olga Gursky) |
| 03/10/09 | Adam Lerner, Ph.D. Dept. Medicine & Pathology Director, Hematology Training Pgm Boston Univ. School of Medicine |
Mechanistic studies of the anti-estrogen resistance gene AND-34/BCAR3
|
| 03/17/09 | Lee Makowski, Ph.D. Div. of Biological Sciences Argonne National Lab |
Linking the Protein Ensemble to Function
|
| 03/31/09 | John Clardy, Ph.D. Department of Biological Chemistry & Molecular Pharmacology Harvard Medical School |
What We Can Learn from Bugs |
| 04/07/09 | Stanley Hazen, Ph.D. Dept. of Mol. Med. Cleveland Clinic, Lerner College of Medicine Case Western Reserve Univ. |
Myloperoxidase, HDL and PON1 – functional partners in atherosclerosis
(Host: Dr. Donald M. Small) |
| FRIDAY 04/17/09 9a-4:15p Rm R115 |
STUDENT SEMINAR DAY |
Graduate Student Talks
|
| FRIDAY 04/24/09 9a-4:15p Rm R115 |
STUDENT SEMINAR DAY |
Graduate Student Talks
|
| 04/28/09 | Dr. Mason W. Freeman Lipid Metabolism Unit Dept. of Medicine Mass General Hospital / Harvard Medical School |
ABCA Transporters: Lipid Movers and Shakers
(Host: Dr. David Atkinson) |
| 05/05/09 | Dr. Jim Delikatny Assistant Director, Molecular Imaging Laboratory Research Associate Professor, Dept. of Radiology University of Pennsylvania |
Probing lipid metabolism non-invasively with MR and optical imaging
(Host: Dr. David Atkinson) |
| 06/16/09 | Dr. Charles Sindelar Staff Scientist Dept. of Biochemistry Brandeis University |
A ‘catalytic engine’ that accounts for kinesin motility and directionality (Host: Dr. William Lehman) |
Fall 2008
Department of Physiology and Biophysics Seminar Series
1:00-2:20pm, room L301
Last update 12/04/2008
You may contact Dr. Haya Herscovitz (haya@bu.edu), the fall seminar coordinator, with any questions.
| Date | Speaker | Title & Host |
| 9/2/08 | Christopher Gabel, PhD
Harvard University, Dept. Of Physics |
“The Study of Neural Regeneration in C. Elegans Using Femtosecond Laser Surgery”
(Host: Dr. Andy Zoeller) |
| 9/9/08 | Alexei Kurakin, PhD
Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital Medical Center |
“Adaptice plasticity in protein interactions and cellular organization” (Host: Dr. Andy Zoeller) |
| 9/19/08
Friday |
Hanna Rapaport, PhD
Ben-Gurion University of Negev Dept. Biotechnology Engineering |
“Structure of Amphiphilic Peptides at Interfaces”
(Host: Dr. Donald M. Small) |
| 9/23/08 | Rajesh Ramachandran, PhD
The Scripps Research Institute Dept. Cell Biology - NEW Date! |
Fluorescence-detected dynamics of dynamin-membrane interactions in
clathrin-mediated endocytosis (Host: Dr. Andy Zoeller) |
| 10/07/08 | Kenneth Walsh, PhD,
BU School of Medicine, |
TBA
(Host: Dr. William Lehman) |
| 10/21/08 | Laura Liscum, PhD
Tufts School of Medicine, Dept. Physiology |
TBA
(Host: Haya Herscovitz and Barbara Schrieber) |
| 10/28/08 | Richard Cohen, PhD
BU School of Medicine, Vascular Biology |
Oxidative post-translational modification of proteins and cellular function
(Host: Dr. Haya Herscovitz) |
| 11/04/08 | Matt Lang,Ph.D.
MIT |
Advances in Single Molecule Biophysics, Studies of Actin Machinery and the Force Generation Mechanism of Kinesin
(Host: Dr. Haya Herscovitz and Michael Greenberg) |
| 12/02/08 | Alan Engelman, Ph.D.
Dept. of Pathology |
Integrase-Binding Co-factors and HIV-1 Infection
|
| 12/09/08 | Charles Brenner, Ph.D.
Depts. of Genetics & Biochemistry & the Norris Cotton Cancer Center Dartmouth Medical School |
TBA |
| 12/16/08 | Lila Geirasch, Ph.D. Dept. of Biochem & Mol Biol, Dept of Chem U Mass, Amherst |
POSTPONED due to weather (Host: Dr. James McKnight) |
Spring 2008
Department of Physiology and Biophysics Seminar Series
1:00-2:20pm, room L301
| Date | Speaker | Title & Host |
| 1/15/08 | Dr. Karen Allen
Boston University School of Medicine Dept. of Physiology & Biophysics |
“Structural Enzymology”
|
| 1/22/08 | Dr. Biju Pillai
Boston University School of Medicine |
“How fast do very long chain saturated fatty acids flip and flop?”
(Host: Hamilton lab) |
| 1/29/08 | Dr. Krishna Murthy
University of Alabama at Birmingham |
“Structure of ApoA-1”
(Hosts: D. Atkinson, D. Small and G. Shipley) |
| 2/12/08 | Dr. Jonathan Goldberg
Memorial Sloan-Kettering |
“Structure and Function of COPII Transport Vesicles”
(Hosts: G. Shipley, C. Akey) |
| 2/26/08 | Dr. M. Elizabeth Stroupe
Brandeis University |
“Structural studies of splicing complexes”
(Host: E. Bullitt) |
| 3/04/08 | Dr. Barry Honig Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Columbia University, New York |
“Relating Cellular to Molecular Specificity”
(Hosts: D. Small/D. Atkinson) |
| 3/11/08 | Dr. David Ron
Skirball Institute, |
“Physiological considerations in unfolded protein responses”
(Host: H. Herscovitz) |
| 3/18/08 | Dr. Rex F. Pratt, Ph.D.
Professor of Biochemistry and Beach Professor of Chemistry Wesleyan University |
“Enzyme mechanisms”
(Host: K. Allen) |
| 3/25/08 | Hwai-Chen Guo, Ph.D.
BUSM |
Glycosylasparaginase cis- to trans-hydrolysis of amide bonds |
| 4/08/08 | Dr. Martin Karplus
Harvard University, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology |
“How Proteins Work: Insights from Simulations”
(Host: B. Lehman) |
| 4/18/08 & 4/25/08 | Student Seminar Days | (Hosts: Drs. C. Akey, K. Allen) |
|
4/29/08 |
Dr. Ramanujan Hegde
Cell Biology and Metabolism Branch Bethesda, MD 20892 |
“The biosynthesis of secretory and membrane proteins”
(Host: C. Akey) |
| 5/06/08 | Dr. Guangwei Du
SUNY, Stonybrook (NY) Center for Developmental Genetics |
“Lipid signal regulation of membrane trafficking and oncogenesis”
(Host: R.A. Zoeller) |
| Friday, 5/09/08 3:00pm Room L303 |
Seemantini Nadkarni, PhD
Harvard Medical School Wellman Center for Photomedicine |
“Optical Techniques to Evaluate Atherosclerosis: a Multi-factorial Perspective”
(Host: R.A. Zoeller) |
| 5/13/08 | Dr. Mary Munson
UMass Medical Center |
“The Exocyst Complex: Molecular Architecture and Function in Exocytosis” (Host: CJ McKnight) |
| 5/20/08 | Norman A. Mazer, M.D., PhD Boston University School of Medicine |
“A Physiologically-Based Mathematical Model of the Metabolic Clearance Rate of Testosterone”
(Host: D. Atkinson) |
Fall 2007
Department of Physiology and Biophysics Seminar Series
1:00-2:20pm, room L301
| Date | Speaker | Title & Host |
| 9/18/07 | Dr. Nicholas R. Silvaggi
Boston University School of Medicine Dept. of Physiology & Biophysics |
“Structural Insights into Inhibition of the Clostridium botulinum Neurotoxin Serotype A Light Chain” (Host: Allen lab) |
| 9/25/07 | Dr. David Cane, Professor Brown University Department of Chemistry |
“Nature’s Dirty Secrets”
(Host: K. Allen) |
| 10/09/07 | Dr. Alexey Onufriev
Assistant Professor Departments of Computer Science and Physics, Virginia Tech |
“Dynamics”
(Host: B. Lehman) |
| 10/16/07 | Dr. Tom Cronin
University of Maryland at Baltimore County in the Department of Biology |
“Color Madness: The Evolution of Color and Polarization Vision in Mantis Shrimps”
(Host: C. Cornwall) |
| 10/23/07 | Dr. Jay Neitz
Department of Cell Biology, Neurobiology & Anatomy |
“Evolutionary endgame for the eye” or “Welcome to the wonderful world of color: gene therapy for colorblindness in a primate”
(Host: C. Cornwall) |
| 11/06/07 | Dr. William Bachovchin
Tufts University |
“Are enzymes templates or mechanical devices?”
(Host: J. Hamilton) |
| 11/13/07 | Dr. Michael Radermacher
Health Science Research Facility |
“The Structure of Complex I in the Mitochondrial Respiratory Chain”
(Host: C Akey) |
| 11/27/07 | Preethi Chandramouli
Boston University School of Medicine Dept. of Physiology & Biophysics |
“Structure of the 80S ribosome” (Host: Akey lab) |
| 12/04/07 | Dr. Ernst J. Schaefer, MD Director, Cardiovascular Research & Lipid Metabolism Laboratories & Lipid and Heart Disease Prevention Program Tufts University School of Medicine Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy |
“The Metabolism of High Density Lipoprotein Particles”
(Host: J. Hamilton) |
| 12/18/07 | Dr. Jeff Hoch
Department of Molecular, Microbial, and Structural Biology University of Connecticut Health Center |
“Folding, Stability, and Structure of Human Prolactin”
(Host: CJ. McKnight) |
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