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Fall 2009

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July 24, 2009

Felix Naef - Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne

"Circadian Regulatory Networks and Clock Precision"

Time: Buffet lunch at 1:00 P.M.; Seminar at 1:30 P.M.

Location: Hill Center (Busch Campus) Room 260

Host: Anirvan Sengupta

 

September 9, 2009

Adel Dayarian - Rutgers University

"De Novo Assembly of Mate Pair Reads from Next-Generation Sequencing Technologies"

Time: Buffet lunch at 1:00 P.M.; Seminar at 1:30 P.M.

Location: Hill Center (Busch Campus) Room 260

Host: Anirvan Sengupta

 

September 16, 2009

Thomas Gregor - Princeton University

"Emergence of Collective Behavior in Social Amoebae"

Time: Buffet lunch at 1:00 P.M.; Seminar at 1:30 P.M.

Location: Hill Center (Busch Campus) Room 260

Host: Anirvan Sengupta

 

September 23, 2009

Ravi Sachidanandam -  Mount Sinai School of Medicine

"Large Numbers of Small RNAs"

Time: Buffet lunch at 1:00 P.M.; Seminar at 1:30 P.M.

Location: Hill Center (Busch Campus) Room 260

Host: Kevin Chen

 

September 28, 2009  -  Special Seminar

Tack Kuntz -  Professor Emeritus, Pharmaceutical Chemistry,  UCSF

"Physics-based Models of Biological Evolution"

Time: Buffet lunch at 1:00 P.M.; Seminar at 1:30 P.M.

Location: Hill Center (Busch Campus) Room 260

Host: Ron Levy

 

September 30, 2009

Robert Jernigan -Iowa State University

"Functional Protein Motions"

Time: Buffet lunch at 1:00 P.M.; Seminar at 1:30 P.M.

Location: Hill Center (Busch Campus) Room 260

Host: Wilma Olson

 

October 7, 2009

Prashanth Ak - Simons Center for Systems Biology, IAS

"Novel Regulatory Mechanisms Based on DNA Duplex Destablization"

Time: Buffet lunch at 1:00 P.M.; Seminar at 1:30 P.M.

Location: Hill Center (Busch Campus) Room 260

Host: Gyan Bhanot

 

October 14, 2009

Wolfgang Losert - University of Maryland

"Decision Making and Group Behavior in Cell Migration"

Time: Buffet lunch at 1:00 P.M.; Seminar at 1:30 P.M.

Location: Hill Center (Busch Campus) Room 260

Host: Konstantin Mischaikow

 

October 19, 2009

Daniel Roe - National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD

"A Tale of Two Pathways: The Basis for Observed Differences in Stability of Overstretched DNA"

Time: 3:00 P.M.

Location: Wright-Rieman Labs, (Busch Campus) Room 260

Host: David Case

 

October 21, 2009

Anna Marie Pyle- Yale University

"Crystal Structure of a Group II Intron:  A giant ribozyme that has catalyzed diversification of terrestrial genomes"

Time: Buffet lunch at 1:00 P.M.; Seminar at 1:30 P.M.

Location: Hill Center (Busch Campus) Room 260

Host: Wilma Olson

 

October 28, 2009

Stanislav Shvartsman - Princeton University

"Retroactivity in a Developmental Signaling Network"

Time: Buffet lunch at 1:00 P.M.; Seminar at 1:30 P.M.

Location: Hill Center (Busch Campus) Room 260

Host: Anirvan Sengupta

 

Special Seminar

November 12, 2009

Tai-Sung Lee - University of Minnesota

"Integrating Bioinformatics, Molecular Simulation and Quantum Chemistry to Explore Cancer Signal Transduction and Ribozyme Catalysis"

Time: Buffet lunch at 1:00 P.M.; Seminar at 12:00 Noon

Location: Hill Center (Busch Campus) Room 260

Host: David Case

 

Special Seminar

November 13, 2009

Sheena Radford, University of Leeds, England

"Towards structural elucidation of the self-assembly mechanism of beta-2-microglobulin into amyloid fibrils"

Time: Seminar at 11:00am

Location: Life Science Auditorium (Busch Campus)

Host: Jean Baum

 

November 18, 2009

Uwe Ohler - Duke University

"Regulatory Genomics of Transcription Control in D Melanogaster"

Time: Buffet lunch at 1:00 P.M.; Seminar at 1:30 P.M.

Location: Hill Center (Busch Campus) Room 260

Host: Kevin Chen

 

December 1, 2009

Eugene Shakhnovich - Harvard University

"Evolution of Protein Structure and Function: from Atoms to Organisms"

Time: 11:00 A.M.

Location: Wright-Reiman Auditorium (Busch Campus)

Host: Ron Levy

Seminar co-sponsored by the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and the BioMaPS Institute

 

December 13-15, 2009

102nd Statistical Mechanics Conference

Location: Hill Center, Room 114, Busch Campus

Topic: "Thermodynamics,Statistical Mechanics, and Fundamental Issues in Biology: Where do we stand?"

Host: Joel L. Lebowitz

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Spring 2010

 

May 5, 2010

Molecular Biophysics Minisymposium

Location: Life Sciences Building Auditorium, Busch Campus

Keynote Speaker:  TBA

Topic: "TBA"

Host: Wilma Olson

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