Program Seminar Series
Spring 2023
Programs in Physiology & Biophysics Seminar Series
Virtual Seminars are Tuesdays at 1pm, except as noted below
**If you want to attend a seminar and are not a member of P&B, please contact Michelle Wiggins for an invitation to the webinar.
Date | Speaker | Title & Host |
1/31/23 | Rajan Adhikari, PhD Boston University, P&B |
Effect of Apo-opsin Content and Bicarbonate on Sensitivity in Vertebrate Photoreceptors (Host: Chris Gabel) |
2/28/23 | Ev Yemini, PhD UMass Medical School |
In Living Color: Whole Nervous-System Cell Ids to Map Neural Communication and Fate in vivo (Host: Chris Gabel) |
3/28/23 | Neil Ganem, PhD Boston University, Pharmacology |
Identifying Gene Dependencies in Highly-Aneuploid Human Cancers (Host: Chris Gabel) |
4/11/23 | Olga Gursky, PhD Boston University, P&B |
Protein Amyloid Modulators: Structural Basis and Biological Ramifications (Host: Chris Gabel) |
5/9/23 | Chris Akey, PhD Boston University, P&B |
The Yeast Nuclear Pore Complex: A Mechanosensitive Channel (Host: Chris Gabel) |
5/22/23 *Monday* |
Michael J. Robertson, PhD Stanford University School of Medicine, P&B |
New Horizons in GPCR Structure Based Drug Discovery (Host: Venetia Zachariou) |
Fall 2022
Department of Physiology & Biophysics Seminar Series
Virtual Seminars are Tuesdays at 1pm, except as noted below
**If you want to attend a seminar and are not a member of P&B, please contact Michelle Wiggins for an invitation to the webinar.
Date | Speaker | Title & Host |
10/25/22 | Laura Lowery, PhD Boston University |
Regulation of Microtubule Dynamics During Growth Cone Guidance and Cell Migration (Host: Chris Gabel) |
11/8/22 | AP Sampath, PhD UCLA |
Evolutionary Insights About Photon Detection and Retinal Processing From the Sea Lamprey Petromyzon Marinus (Host: Chris Gabel) |
11/29/22 | TBA | TBA |
12/13/22 | Dominique Frueh, PhD Johns Hopkins |
Structural Dynamics as Protein Nervous Systems; Why and How to Study (Large) Peptide Synthetases by NMR (Host: Chris Gabel) |
1/31/23 | Rajan Adhikari, PhD P&B |
Effect of Apo-opsin Content and Bicarbonate on Sensitivity in Vertebrate Photoreceptors (Host: Chris Gabel) |
Spring 2022
Department of Physiology & Biophysics Seminar Series
Virtual Seminars are Tuesdays at 1pm, except as noted below
**If you want to attend a seminar and are not a member of P&B, please contact Michelle Wiggins for an invitation to the webinar.
Date | Speaker | Title & Host |
2/8/22 | Monika Oberer, PhD University of Graz, Austria |
Peeking Behind the Veil of Lipid Mobilization From Fat Depots at the Molecular Level (Host: Assen Marintchev) |
2/22/22 | Post Doctoral Fellows P&B |
TBA (P&B) |
3/8/22 | Michael Greenberg, MD/PhD Washington University |
Precision Medicine for Heart Failure (Host: Bill Lehman) |
3/22/22 | Robert Austin, PhD BUSM |
TBA (Host: Chris Gabel) |
4/12/22 | Rohit Kulkarni, MD/PhD | TBA (Host: Lynne Coluccio) |
4/26/22 | Graduate Students P&B |
TBA (Host: P&B) |
Fall 2021
Department of Physiology & Biophysics Seminar Series
Virtual Seminars are Tuesdays at 1pm, except as noted below
**If you want to attend a seminar and are not a member of P&B, please contact Michelle Wiggins for an invitation to the webinar.
Date | Speaker | Title & Host |
9/9/21 *Thursday at 2:15pm |
Djamel Lebeche, PhD Icahn School of Medicine |
Cardiac Physiology under Diabetic Stress: Molecular Drivers and Signaling Defects (Host: Esther Bullitt) |
9/14/21 | Daniel Taub, PhD Harvard Med |
New Biophysical Tools Uncover The Cortical Networks of Somatosensation (Host: Chris Gabel) |
9/28/21 | Erik Nelson, PhD University of Illinois |
Using Cholesterol Biology To Re-Educate The Immune System In Cancer (Host: Mina Moussavi) |
10/12/21 | Jennie Luebke, PhD BUSM |
Diversity and Selective Vulnerability of Cortical Neurons (Hosts: Chris Gabel/Carter Cornwall) |
10/26/21 | David Jacobson, PhD JILA |
Probing the energetics of single membrane proteins by atomic force microscopy (Host: Esther Bullitt) |
11/9/21 | Annette Burgess, PhD University of Sydney School of Med |
Team-based Learning: Key Steps, Theory and Practice (Host: Mina Moussavi) |
11/30/21 | Timothy Street, PhD Brandeis |
Surprise Discoveries About the GRP94 Molecular Chaperone From Single-Molecule FRET Experiments (Host: Matt Doran) |
12/14/21 | Henry Ginsberg, MD Columbia |
Assembly and Secretion of VLDL, Always Something New (Hosts: Xiaohu Mei/Haya Herscovitz) |
Fall 2020/Spring 2021
Department of Physiology & Biophysics Seminar Series
Virtual Seminars are Thursdays at 2pm, except as noted below
**If you want to attend a seminar and are not a member of P&B, please contact Michelle Wiggins for an invitation to the webinar.
Date | Speaker | Title & Host |
11/19/20 | Xinchao Yu, PhD Amgen |
NPC1L1—a cholesterol transporter (Host: Chris Akey) |
12/3/20 | Max Sokolov, PhD WVU Eye Institute |
The journey of G protein in rod photoreceptors (Host: Clint Makino) |
12/17/20 | Roger Craig, PhD UMass Medical School |
Cryo-EM structure of myosin II: how interactions between myosin’s heads and tail relax muscle and switch off cell motility (Hosts: Bill Lehman/Mike Rynkiewicz) |
1/7/21 | Huilin Li, PhD Van Andel Institute’s Center for Cancer and Cell Biology |
Structural mechanisms of membrane lipid and membrane protein homeostasis. (Host: Chris Akey) |
1/21/21 |
Andrei Korostelev, PhD University of Massachusetts Medical School |
Ensemble and time-resolved cryo-EM elucidate translation accuracy and regulation (Host: Chris Akey) |
2/4/21 | Qiang Cui, PhD Department of Chemistry, Boston University |
Multi-scale molecular simulation studies of biomolecular function (Host: Bill Lehman) |
2/18/21 | Edward Fisher, MD New York University Langone Medical Center |
ApoB/VLDL and atherosclerosis (Host: Haya Herscovitz) |
3/11/21 | Steven Ludtke, PhD Baylor College of Medicine |
In-situ structure and dynamics using Cryo-electron tomography (Host: Chris Akey) |
3/25/21 | Kenneth A. Taylor, PhD Florida State University |
How the flight muscle of a giant water bug informs on muscle function and structure across species (Host: Chris Akey) |
4/8/21 |
Irina Sereysheva, PhD The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston |
Gating mechanism of IP3R channels: insights from cryo-EM studies (Host: Chris Akey) |
4/22/21 | Niko Grigorieff, PhD University of Massachusetts Medical School |
Finding Needles in Haystacks – A New Approach to Template Matching (for in situ Cryo-ET) (Host: Chris Akey) |
5/13/21 | Thomas Guettler, PhD Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry |
Targeting SARS-CoV-2 with camelid single-domain antibodies (Host: Chris Akey) |
6/3/21 | Michael Rout, PhD The Rockefeller University |
NPC structure and facilitated transport (Host: Chris Akey) |
6/24/21 | Yunlu Xue, PhD Harvard Medical School |
A new therapeutic gene to prolong cone survival in retinitis pigmentosa (Host: Chris Gabel) |
8/10/21 **Tuesday @1pm |
Patricia Aguilar-Calvo, DVM, PhD UCSD |
Untangling the interactions of misfolded proteins with heparan sulfate in neurodegenerative disease (Host: Chris Gabel) |
Summer 2020
Department of Physiology & Biophysics Seminar Series
Virtual Seminars 1:30pm, except as noted below
**If you want to attend a seminar and are not a member of P&B, please contact Prof. Esther Bullitt for an invitation to the webinar.
Date | Speaker | Title & Host |
5/12/20 | James Hamilton, PhD Physiology & Biophysics |
Fatty Acid Transport Across Membranes (Host: Esther Bullitt) |
5/21/20 | Russek Day Boston University |
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5/28/20 | Assen Marintchev, PhD Physiology & Biophysics |
A quantitative view of translation initiation (Host: Esther Bullitt) |
6/4/20 | David Atkinson, PhD Physiology & Biophysics |
40 years of Lipoprotein Research (Host: Esther Bullitt) |
6/18/20 *1-3pm |
Student Seminars Physiology & Biophysics |
Angela Urdaneta – Optimizing ABCA1 Nanoparticle Reconstruction for Structural Studies Gregory Wirak – TBA Olivia Chavez – TBA Matthew Doran – TBA (Host: Esther Bullitt) |
6/25/20 *10am |
Polina Geva, PhD Physiology & Biophysics |
TBA (Host: Esther Bullitt) |
7/9/20 | Malai Pavadai, PhD Physiology & Biophysics |
TBA (Host: Esther Bullitt) |
7/16/20 | Dilip Yadav, PhD Physiology & Biophysics |
TBA (Host: Esther Bullitt) |
Upcoming Seminars
Department of Physiology & Biophysics
Tuesdays 1:30, Room R103
Date | Speaker | Title & Host |
9/24/19 | Zhera Sayers, PhD Sabanci University |
Pushing the limits of Small and Wide Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS/WAXS) with Ferric binding protein A (FbpA) from Heamophilus influenzae (Host: Jamie McKnight) |
10/15/19 | Olga Gursky, PhD Boston University |
Serum Amyloid A: An enigmatic ancient protein with a new function in lipid transport and inflammation |
Spring 2019
Department of Physiology & Biophysics Seminar Series
Tuesdays 1:30, Room R103
Date | Speaker | Title & Host |
1/29/19 | Soren Midtgaard, PhD Physiology & Biophysics |
Selective deuteration and neutron scattering for structural biology (Host: David Atkinson) |
2/5/19 | Dan Oprian, PhD Brandeis |
Retinylidene proteins in vision and as optogenetic tools |
2/28/19 | Neil Kad, PhD University of Kent |
Walking the tightrope between DNA and actin binding proteins; single molecule insights into mechanism |
3/12/19 | Andras Malnasi Csizmadia, PhD Eötvös Loránd University |
Motor Protein Pharmacology – Novel inhibitors for different myosin-2 isoforms: Implications for treatment of cardiovascular and skeletal muscle disease |
3/26/19 | Christna Ouch, PhD Physiology & Biophysics |
TBA (Host: Chris Akey) |
4/23/19 | Phyllis Robinson, PhD Univ. of MD Baltimore County |
TBA |
5/7/19 | Sebastian Guettler, PhD The Institute of Cancer Research, London England |
TBA |
5/14/19 | John Tarbell, PhD City College of NY |
TBA |
5/21/19 | Raul Pardon, PhD UMass Medical Center |
TBA |
6/4/19 | Thomas Guettler, PhD UMass Medical Center |
TBA (Host: Chris Akey) |
Spring 2018
Department of Physiology & Biophysics Seminar Series
Tuesdays 1:30, Room R103
Date | Speaker | Title & Host |
1/30/18 | Stephen Farmer, PhD Biochemistry, BUMC |
Mechano-responsive Signaling and Recruitment of Vascular Progenitors during Adipose Remodeling and Fibrosis (Host: Haya Herscovitz) |
2/13/18 | Nickolas Dickenson, PhD Utah State |
Powering Shigella Infection: Structure-Function Studies of the Type Three Secretion System ATPase Spa47 (Host: Esther Bullitt) |
2/22/18 *Thursday |
Neil Kad, PhD University of Kent |
TBA |
2/27/18 | Michael Do, PhD Boston Children’s Hospital |
Encoding of Ambient Illumination within the Mammalian Retina |
3/6/18 | Catherine Royer, PhD RPI |
Molecular Mechanisms of Cell Size Homeostasis in Budding Yeast (Host: Olga Gursky) |
3/13/18 | Farooq Kiani, PhD Boston University |
Computational studies of molecular motors and proteins in the thin filament |
4/4/17 *Wednesday @ 1pm |
Stephen Blacklow, M.D./PhD Harvard |
Unraveling Notch Signal Transduction (Host: Haya Herscovitz) |
4/10/17 | Jorge Haller, PhD Regeneron Pharmaceuticals |
ANGPTL8 requires ANGPTL3 to inhibit lipoprotein lipase and plasma triglyceride clearance (Host: Andy Zoeller) |
5/8/17 | Irina Serysheva, PhD The University of Texas |
TBD (Host: Olga Gursky) |
Fall 2017
Department of Physiology & Biophysics Seminar Series
Tuesdays 1:30, Room R103
Date | Speaker | Title & Host |
9/19/17 | Feng Li, PhD U Minnesota Twin Cities |
“Coronavirus Spike Proteins: Structure, Function, and Vaccine Design” (Host: Andy Zoeller) |
10/10/17 | Gareth Morgan, PhD Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine |
“Stabilizing antibody light chains to prevent misfolding and aggregation” (Host: Andy Zoeller) |
11/14/17 | Yukio Fujiki, PhD Kyushu University |
“Peroxisome Homeostasis: Biogenesis and Physiology” (Host: Andy Zoeller) |
11/21/17 | Ahmed El-Hussein, PhD Cairo University |
TBA (Host: Clint Makino) |
11/28/17 | Les Loew, PhD UConn Medical |
“The Virtual Cell Project” (Host: Bill Lehman) |
12/5/17 | Chunyu Wang, MD/PhD RPI |
“Structural Mechanisms in Alzheimer’s disease and Protein Autoprocessing” (Host: Haya Hercovitz) |
12/12/17 | Bill Jackson, PhD University of Maryland School of Medicine |
“Redirecting the Garbage Chute: Picornaviruses and Cellular Autophagy” (Host: Esther Bullitt) |
Spring 2017
Department of Physiology & Biophysics Seminar Series
Tuesdays 1:30, Room R103
Date | Speaker | Title & Host |
2/7/17 | Igor Kaltashov, PhD University of Massachusetts Amherst |
“New mass spectrometry-based tools to study protein structure and interactions” (Host: Olga Gusky) |
2/16/17 | Mike Geeves, PhD University of Kent |
TBA (Host: Lynne Coluccio) |
2/28/17 | John Macor, PhD Genzyme/Sanofi |
“What I Did on my Summer Vacation: Insights from a 30 Year Career in Drug Discovery.” (Host: Clint Makino) |
3/14/17 | Konstantin Zeldovic, PhD UMass Medical School |
TBA (Host: Olga Gusky) |
3/21/17 | Rikard Frederiksen, PhD BUSM |
“Visual adaptation: moving to the dark side” (Host: Clint Makino) |
4/4/17 | Jim Hurley, PhD University of Washington |
“Energy metabolism in the retina ecosystem” (Host: Carter Cornwall) |
4/25/17 | King Wai Yau Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine |
“Light Detection in the Eye — The Big Picture?” (Host: Clint Makino) |
5/2/17 | Eric Warrant, PhD Lund University |
“Seeing at the limits: Vision and visual navigation in nocturnal insects” (Host: Rikard Frederiksen) |
5/16/17 | Joyce Wong, PhD Boston University |
“Biomaterials to Detect and Treat Cardiovascular Disease” (Host: Bill Lehman) |
Fall 2016
Department of Physiology & Biophysics Seminar Series
Tuesdays 1:30, Room R103
Date | Speaker | Title & Host |
9/13/16 | Shruthi Mahalingaiah, MD Boston Medical Center Dept of Obstetrics & Gynecology |
Air Pollution Exposures & Gynecologic Disease Incidence: Physiology, Biological Mechanisms, and Epidemiology (Host: David Atkinson) |
9/20/16 | Koh Takeuchi, PhD National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology Tokyo, Japan |
Utilization and extension of solution NMR techniques for biologically and clinically important systems (Host: Assen Marintchev) |
*Special Seminar* 9/23/16 at 1pm in Rm L301 |
Maureen Basha, PhD West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine |
Determinants of Cardiac Output (Host: Andy Zoeller) |
9/27/16 | Christopher Connor, MD/PhD Boston Medical Center Dept of Anesthesiology |
High-intensity focused ultrasound and the advent of non-invasive brain surgery (Host: Chris Gable) |
10/4/16 | No Seminar | UMass Worcester CryoEM Opening Symposium |
10/11/16 | Deo Singh, PhD Johns Hopkins |
Stabilization of EphA2 dimers as a novel anti-cancer strategy (Host: Clint Makino) |
11/8/16 | Mahdhurima Das BUSM, Dept of Physiology & Biophysics Dissertation Defense |
Structural stability and lipid interactions in the misfolding of human apolipoprotein A-I: What makes the protein amyloidogenic? (Host: Olga Gursky) |
11/29/16 | Andrew Bogorad BUSM, Dept of Physiology & Biophysics Dissertation Defense |
TBA (Host: Assen Marintchev) |
Additional Boston area seminars
Spring 2016
Department of Physiology & Biophysics Seminar Series
Tuesdays 1:30, Room R103
Date | Speaker | Title & Host |
1/19/16 | Samuel Chung, PhD Department of Physiology and Biophysics BUSM |
How can a simple roundworm and advanced optical techniques illuminate the path toward CNS regeneration? (Host: Carter Cornwall) |
2/2/16 | Brian Wainger, PhD Harvard Medical School |
Stem Cell Modeling in Sensory and Motor Neuron Diseases |
2/23/16 | Mahmood Hussain, PhD | TBA |
3/1/16 | Vivek Venkatachalam, PhD Department of Physics, Harvard University |
Pan-neuronal imaging in roaming C. elegans |
3/29/16 | Zhen Jiang, PhD BUSM, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics |
Phosphoprotein CDP138 mediates stress-induced glucose and lipid metabolism |
4/12/16 | Lucy Forrest, PhD HIH/NINDA |
TBA |
4/19/16 | Matt Gage, PhD UMass Lowell |
Exploring the Role of the N2A Region of Titin in Skeletal Muscle Function |
Additional Boston area seminars
Fall 2015
Department of Physiology & Biophysics Seminar Series
Tuesdays 1:30, Room R103
Date | Speaker | Title & Host |
9/15/15 | Mengwei Zang, M.D., PhD Department of Medicine, BUSM |
Novel nutrient sensing in metabolic regulation and its therapeutic impact on diabetes (Host: Andy Zoeller) |
9/29/15 *CVI Seminar, 12pm |
Jay Horton, M.D. UT Southwestern |
Molecular Mediators of Hepatic Steatosis |
10/6/15 *CVI Seminar, 12pm |
Ronglih Liao, PhD Brigham and Women’s |
Autophagy, amyloid, and heart disease |
*postponed | Laura Packer, PhD Takeda Pharmaceuticals |
Antibody-Drug Conjugates and Process Development (Host: Jamie McKnight) |
10/20/15 | Teresa Ruiz, PhD University of Vermont |
TBA |
11/3/15 | Tat Cheung Cheng, PhD BU Physiology and Biophysics, Post Doc CWA |
Atomic model of the human and Drosophila apoptosome (Host: Chris Akey) |
11/10/15 *CVI Seminar, 12pm |
Monty Krieger, PhD MIT |
Structure and functions of the HDL receptor: SRBI(Scavenger Receptor: Class B, Type I) |
11/17/15 *CVI Seminar, 12pm |
Michael Czech, PhD UMass School of Medicine |
Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms underlying Systemic Glucose Intolerance |
12/1/15 | Isabel Morgado, PhD BU Physiology and Biophysics, Post Doc OG |
Structural and biochemical basis of protein amyloid evolution: Transthyretin as a model of amyloid evolution (Host: Olga Gursky) |
12/15/15 | Hao Wu, PhD HMS |
TBA |
Additional Boston area seminars
Spring 2015
Department of Physiology & Biophysics Seminar Series
Tuesdays 1:30, Room R103
Date | Speaker | Title & Host |
1/20/15 | Michael Rynkiewicz, PhD BU Physiology & Biophysics Dept. |
Engineering of Surfactant Proteins Reveals Mechanisms of Ligand Specificity (Host: Barbara Seaton) |
1/27/15 | Harrison Gabel, PhD HMS |
The neuron-specific epigenome in neural development and disease (Host: Chris Gabel) |
2/3/15 | Dov Lichtenberg, PhD Tel Aviv Univ. |
TBA (Host: Jim Hamilton) |
2/5/15 *Thursday |
Dietmar Manstein, PhD | The Structural Basis of Force Generation in Regulated Actomyosin Systems (Host: Lehman/Coluccio) |
2/17/15 | John Connor, PhD BUSM |
I Inhaled What? Transcriptomic analysis of the host response following infection with viruses that cause hemorrhagic fever (Host: Barbara Seaton) |
2/24/15 | George Murphy, PhD BUSM |
Pluripotent Stem Cell Modeling of Human Disease (Host: Jamie McKnight) |
3/3/15 | Rikard Frederiksen, PhD BUSM |
The role of Meta III in regulating visual pigment regeneration in bleached mouse rods (Host: Carter Cornwall) |
3/10/15 |
Jeffrey Holt, PhD HMS |
Molecular composition of the elusive mechanosensory transduction channels that mediate hearing and balance (Host: Lynne Coluccio) |
3/17/15 | Eranthie Weerapana, PhD BC |
Chemical-proteomic strategies to investigate reactive cysteines (Host: Barbara Seaton) |
3/24/15 | Maofu Liao, PhD HMS |
Structural analysis of membrane proteins using single-particle cryo-electron microscopy” (Host: Chris Akey) |
3/31/15 | Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy, PhD U Michigan |
Structural Insights on Membrane-Bound Protein-Protein Complexes and Membrane-Mediated Misfolding of Amyloid Proteins (Host: Olga Gursky) |
4/7/15 | John Straub, PhD BU |
Role of sequence and membrane in Amyloid Precursor Protein dimerization and cleavage (Host: Barbara Seaton) |
4/14/15 |
Mo Khalil, PhD BU |
Building molecular assemblies to control the flow of biological information (Host: Barbara Seaton) |
4/21/15 | Chelsea Epler, PhD BUSM |
Assembly of the Shigella flexneri Type III Secretion Needle Tip (Host: Esther Bullitt) |
4/28/15 | Tat Cheng, PhD BUSM |
Apoptosome structure and procaspase activation (Host: Chris Akey) |
5/5/15 | Isabel Morgado, PhD BUSM |
Molecular basis of β-Amyloid recognition with conformational antibody fragments (Host: Olga Gursky) |
5/12/15 | Departmental Graduate Student Seminar Day |
Additional Boston area seminars
Fall 2014
Department of Physiology & Biophysics Seminar Series
Tuesdays 1:30, Room R103
Date | Speaker | Title & Host |
9/11/14 *Time: 2:00pm 670 Albany St., Rm 107 |
Evan Daniel Rossignol BU Physiology & Biophysics Dept. |
Thesis Defense: TOPOLOGY OF POLIOVIRUS RNA REPLICATION MACHINERY (Advisor: Esther Bullitt) |
9/23/14 | Lorenzo Finci, PhD Peking University and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute |
Deciphering the signaling code for the wiring of the brain: The crystal structure of Netrin-1 in complex with Deleted in Colorectal Cancer (DCC) reveals the bi-functionality of Netrin-1 as a guidance cue (Host: Barbara Seaton) |
9/30/14 | Xiaohu Mei, PhD BUSM, Physiology and Biophysics Department |
The Structure of apoA-I Reveals the Possible Mechanism of HDL Formation (Host: David Atkinson) |
10/7/14 | Adrian Whitty, PhD BU, Department of Chemistry |
Quantitative characterization of the activation and signaling mechanism of a receptor tyrosine kinase (Host: Barbara Seaton) |
10/14/14 | Stuart Campbell, PhD Departments of Biomedical Engineering, and Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Yale University |
Quantitative, Patient-Specific Approaches to Understanding Inherited Cardiomyopathies (Host: Bill Lehman) |
10/21/14 | Joseph Zaia, PhD BUSM, Department of Biochemistry |
Glycosylation and the evolution of influenza virus fitness (Host: Barbara Seaton) |
10/28/14 | Daisy Sahoo, PhD Medical College of Wisconsin |
HDL-cholesterol removal via SR-BI: The good, the bad, and the ugly (Host: David Atkinson) |
11/4/14 |
Marek Orzechowski, PhD BUSM, Physiology and Biophysics Department |
Tropomyosin movement on F-actin explained by energy landscapes (Host: Bill Lehman) |
11/18/14 | Anne Gershenson, PhD Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, U Mass Amherst |
Transient Interactions between Bacterial Phospholipase Cs and Membranes (Host: Barbara Seaton) |
11/25/14 | Hiroshi Tokuo, PhD BUSM, Physiology and Biophysics Department |
Unconventional myosins in skin physiology (Host: Lynne Coluccio) |
12/2/14 | Barbara Brodsky, PhD Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University |
Collagen: Molecular Structure, pathological changes and recombinant applicationss (Host: Esther Bullitt) |
12/9/14 | Heidi Schwanz, PhD BUSM, Physiology and Biophysics Department |
TBA (Host: Jim Hamilton) |
Additional Boston area seminars
Spring 2014
Department of Physiology & Biophysics Seminar Series
Tuesdays 1:30, Room R103
Date | Speaker | Title & Host |
1/14/14 | John Samuelson, PhD Goldman School of Dental Medicine |
The low-hanging fruit of cyst and oocyst walls: strategies to discover the structural components of the walls of parasitic protists (Host: Esther Bullitt) |
1/21/14 | Mason Klein, PhD Dept. of Physics, Harvard University |
Cold avoidance, cold sensing, and cold circuits in the Drosophila larva (Host: Chris Gabel) |
2/4/14 | Tyler Reddy, PhD Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Oxford |
Biophysical characterization of full-scale influenza and dengue virions (Host: Barbara Seaton) |
2/11/14 | Barbara Corkey, PhD Zoltan Kohn Professor of Medicine, BUSM |
Redox Regulation in Obesity and Diabetes (Host: Haya Herscovitz) |
2/25/14 | Olivier Kocher, PhD Pathology, Harvard Medical School |
Regulation of the HDL receptor SR-BI expression by the multi PDZ domain adaptor protein PDZK1 (Host: David Atkinson) |
3/11/14 | Zvonimir Dogic, PhD Dept of Physics, Brandeis University |
From Molecular Motors and Microtubules to Synthetic Cilia and the Beyond (Host: Bill Lehman) |
3/18/14 *Time: 9:30am |
Daniel Saltzberg BU Physiology & Biophysics Dept. |
Thesis Defense: Substrate Specificity and Conformational Activation Mechanism of Beta-Phosphoglucomutase (Advisor: Karen Allen) |
3/25/14 | Andrei Korostelev, PhD UMass Medical Center |
TBA (Host: Chris Akey) |
*Postponed* | George Murphy, PhD Hematology & Medical Oncology, BUSM |
Pluripotent Stem Cell Modeling of Human Disease (Host: Andy Zoeller) |
4/22/14 | Wendy L. Picking, PhD Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Oklahoma State University |
No child should die from it: Toward a vaccine to prevent shigellosis (Host: Esther Bullitt) |
Additional Boston area seminars
Fall 2013
Department of Physiology & Biophysics Seminar Series
Tuesdays 1:30, Room R103
Date | Speaker | Title & Host |
9/3/13 | Willy Wriggers, PhD D.E. Shaw Research |
From Atoms to Living Organisms: Emergent Complexity of Multiscale Computational Modeling (Host: David Atkinson) |
9/17/13 | Hyesung Jeon, PhD Harvard Medical School |
Molecular imaging and functional studies of EGFR pathway in cancer cells (Host: Graham Shipley) |
10/1/13 | Chris Akey, PhD Physiology & Biophysics – BUSM |
Structure of the SecY channel at an early stage of protein translocation |
10/22/13 | Michael Regnier, PhD University of Washington |
Mechanistic and translational studies of striated muscle contraction (Host: Bill Lehman) |
10/29/13 | Jeremiah Farelli, PhD Chemistry, Boston University |
Panoramic functional view of the Haloalkanoic Acid Dehalogenase superfamily using a sparse sampling high-throughput approach.” (Host: Chris Akey) |
11/5/13 | Jeff Miller, PhD Neurology, BUSM |
Molecular Pathogenesis of Muscular Dystrophies (Host: David Atkinson) |
11/12/13 | Steen Hansen, PhD Boston Children’s Hospital |
Rho signaling in epithelial cell growth and cell death (Host: Lynne Coluccio) |
12/3/13 | David Harris, PhD Biochemistry, BUSM |
The Prion Protein: A Dual Role in Prion and Alzheimer’s Diseases (Host: David Atkinson) |
12/10/13 | Michael Eck, PhD Dana Farber Cancer Institute |
Structural approaches to understanding and targeting EGFR mutations in Lung Cancer (Host: Esther Bullitt) |
1/14/13 | John Samuelson, PhD Goldman School of Dental Medicine |
The low-hanging fruit of cyst and oocyst walls: strategies to discover the structural components of the walls of parasitic protists (Host: Esther Bullitt) |
Additional Boston area seminars
Spring 2013
Department of Physiology & 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 |
A novel conformational change drives the alternating access mechanism for Zn2+ transport by YiiP (Host: Esther Bullitt) |
Additional Boston area seminars
Fall 2012
Department of Physiology & 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 & 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 & 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 & 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 & 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 & 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 (Host: Barbara Seaton) |
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 (Host: Barbara Seaton) |
12/14/10 | No Seminar | |
12/21/10 | No Seminar | |
Additional Boston area seminars
Spring 2010
Department of Physiology & 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 (Host: Dr. Barbara Seaton) |
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 & 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, PhDBIDMC Harvard University |
TBA (Host: Dr. Barbara Seaton) |
Additional Boston area seminars
Spring 2009
Department of Physiology & 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 U Mass, Amherst |
(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 & 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, PhDHarvard University, Dept. Of Physics Dept. of Physiology & Biophysics |
“The Study of Neural Regeneration in C. Elegans Using Femtosecond Laser Surgery” (Host: Dr. Andy Zoeller) |
9/9/08 | Alexei Kurakin, PhDBeth Israel Deaconess HospitalMedical Center | “Adaptice plasticity in protein interactions and cellular organization” (Host: Dr. Andy Zoeller) |
9/19/08Friday | Hanna Rapaport, PhDBen-Gurion University of NegevDept. Biotechnology Engineering | “Structure of Amphiphilic Peptides at Interfaces” (Host: Dr. Donald M. Small) |
9/23/08 | Rajesh Ramachandran, PhDThe Scripps Research InstituteDept. Cell Biology – NEW Date! | Fluorescence-detected dynamics of dynamin-membrane interactions inclathrin-mediated endocytosis (Host: Dr. Andy Zoeller) |
10/07/08 | Kenneth Walsh, PhD,BU School of Medicine, Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute |
TBA (Host: Dr. William Lehman) |
10/21/08 | Laura Liscum, PhDTufts School of Medicine, Dept. Physiology | TBA (Host: Haya Herscovitz and Barbara Schrieber) |
10/28/08 | Richard Cohen, PhDBU 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 Harvard Medical School |
Integrase-Binding Co-factors and HIV-1 Infection |
12/09/08 | Charles Brenner, Ph.D.Depts. of Genetics & Biochemistry & the Norris Cotton Cancer CenterDartmouth 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 & Biophysics Seminar Series
1:00-2:20pm, room L301
Date | Speaker | Title & Host |
1/15/08 | Dr. Karen AllenBoston University School of MedicineDept. of Physiology & Biophysics | “Structural Enzymology” |
1/22/08 | Dr. Biju PillaiBoston University School of Medicine Dept. of Physiology & Biophysics |
“How fast do very long chain saturated fatty acids flip and flop?” (Host: Hamilton lab) |
1/29/08 | Dr. Krishna MurthyUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham | “Structure of ApoA-1” (Hosts: D. Atkinson, D. Small and G. Shipley) |
2/12/08 | Dr. Jonathan GoldbergMemorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York |
“Structure and Function of COPII Transport Vesicles” (Hosts: G. Shipley, C. Akey) |
2/26/08 | Dr. M. Elizabeth StroupeBrandeis University | “Structural studies of splicing complexes”(Host: E. Bullitt) |
3/04/08 | Dr. Barry Honig Center for Computational Biology and BioinformaticsColumbia University, New York |
“Relating Cellular to Molecular Specificity”(Hosts: D. Small/D. Atkinson) |
3/11/08 | Dr. David RonSkirball Institute, New York University Medical Center |
“Physiological considerations in unfolded protein responses” (Host: H. Herscovitz) |
3/18/08 | Dr. Rex F. Pratt, Ph.D.Professor of Biochemistryand Beach Professor of ChemistryWesleyan 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 KarplusHarvard University,Department of Chemistryand 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 HegdeCell Biology and Metabolism Branch National Institute of Child Health and Human development (NIH)Bethesda, MD 20892 |
“The biosynthesis of secretory and membrane proteins” (Host: C. Akey) |
5/06/08 | Dr. Guangwei DuSUNY, Stonybrook (NY)Center for Developmental Genetics Dept. of Pharmacology |
“Lipid signal regulation of membrane trafficking and oncogenesis” (Host: R.A. Zoeller) |
Friday, 5/09/083:00pmRoom L303 |
Seemantini Nadkarni, PhDHarvard Medical School Massachusetts General HospitalWellman Center for Photomedicine |
“Optical Techniques to Evaluate Atherosclerosis: a Multi-factorial Perspective” (Host: R.A. Zoeller) |
5/13/08 | Dr. Mary MunsonUMass 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 & Biophysics Seminar Series
1:00-2:20pm, room L301
Date | Speaker | Title & Host |
9/18/07 | Dr. Nicholas R. SilvaggiBoston University School of MedicineDept. 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 OnufrievAssistant ProfessorDepartments of Computer Science and Physics, Virginia Tech | “Dynamics” (Host: B. Lehman) |
10/16/07 | Dr. Tom CroninUniversity 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 NeitzDepartment of Cell Biology, Neurobiology & Anatomy Medical College of Wisconsin |
“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 BachovchinTufts University Biochemistry Department |
“Are enzymes templates or mechanical devices?” (Host: J. Hamilton) |
11/13/07 | Dr. Michael RadermacherHealth Science Research Facility Univ of Vermont Medical School |
“The Structure of Complex I in the Mitochondrial Respiratory Chain” (Host: C Akey) |
11/27/07 | Preethi ChandramouliBoston University School of MedicineDept. 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 BiologyUniversity of Connecticut Health Center | “Folding, Stability, and Structure of Human Prolactin” (Host: CJ. McKnight) |