2009-2010
Molecular Biophysics Training Program Monthly Speakers
Second Tuesday of each month from 5:30-7:00 pm
Urey Room (2102); Urey Hall

Date Speaker Topic
Oct. 20 Melissa Wong
Weinberger Lab		 A Gene Expression Level-to-Rate Converter Provides a Fitness Advantage in a Human Herpesvirus
Nov. 17 David Erickson
Hwa Lab		 Synthetic Gene Circuits
Dec. 8 Jeff Brodin
Jan. 12 Natalie Shanks
Feb. 9 Jeramie Watrous
Mar. 9 Andrew Caldwell
Apr. 1 Alexander van Oudenaarden
MIT 		Controlling Stochastic Gene Expression During Development
Apr. 8 Arthur Olson
TSRI		 Challenges and Opportunities for Computational Docking in Structure based Drug Design
Apr. 14 Eileen Chen
May 12 Bill Sinko
Jun. 9 Janina Moretti
Muller Lab

 

2008-2009

Date Speaker Topic
Oct. 14 Yan Wang
Opella Lab		 "Structure Determination of Viroporin by NMR: Vpu from HIV-1"
Nov. 11 Anna Clare Milazzo
Xuong Lab		 "Using a Direct Detection Device (DDD) for 3D Electron Microscopy"
Dec. 9 Diana Schlamadinger
Kim Lab		 "Antimicrobial Peptides"
Jan. 13 Mikolai Fajer
McCammon Lab		 "Tracking the Role of Allostery and Cooperativity in Substrate-Binding to PKA"
Feb. 10 Ingrid DeVries
Komives Lab		 "The role of the ankyrin repeat consensus in establishing folding kinetics"
Mar. 24 Michael Jamros
Jennings Lab		 "Investigating and Allosteric Mechanism for Csk Signaling"
Apr. 10 Scott Blanchard
Weill-Cornell Medical College of Cornell University		 "Dynamic Mode Switching and Cooperative Conformational Events Underpin the Process of Translocation on the Ribosome"
Apr. 14 Jeff Noel
Onuchic Lab		 "Applications of All-Atom Structure-Based Models of Proteins"
May 6 Harry Noller
University of California, Santa Cruz
Center for Molecular Biology of RNA		 "Structure and Dynamics of the Ribosome"
May 12 Brian Fuglestad
Komives Lab		 "Thrombin Backbone Dynamics by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance"
Jun. 9 Janina Moretti
Muller Lab		 "Evolution of Ribozymes Towards RNA-Protein Catalysts"

2007-2008

Date Speaker Topic
Oct. 9 Byron Hetrick
Joseph Lab		 "Decoding by the Ribosome"
Nov. 13 Ariane Jansma
Handel Lab		 "Analysis of the Chemokine CTACK and the Silent Chemokine Receptor DARC"
Dec. 11 Jeff Noel
Onuchic Lab		 "An All-atom Structure Based Model for Proteins: Interplay between Geometry and Energetics"
Jan. 8 Andrew Markley
Dixon Lab		 "Enzymatic Characterization of a new class of Ribosomally Encoded Antibiotic"
Feb. 12 Rina Salanga
Handel Lab		 "Structural and Functional Characterization of a 
Chemokine Receptor and Ligand"
Mar. 11 Mikolai Fajer
McCammon Lab		 "Accelerating Thermodynamic Integration with Replica Exchange Accelerated Molecular Dynamics"
Apr. 8 Gregory Hannum
Ideker Lab		 "Using physical interaction networks to explain the effects of natural genetic variation"
May 13 Andro Rios
Tor Lab		 "Making Nucleic Acids Shine! Fluorescent nucleosides for biophysical studies"


Saturday May 31st Annual Retreat
 
June 10 Amy Davenport
Komives Lab		 "Molecular Dynamics of IκBα via Fluorescence
Resonance Energy Transfer"
Apr. 11 Dr. Carlos Bustamante
UC Berkeley		 "Signposts along the chromosomal highway:  How FtsK finds its target" 12:00pm
Leichtag 107
Apr. 24 Dr. Mary Roberts
Boston College		 "The osmotisome and other ways to deal with stress.... lessons from extremophiles" 12:00pm
Leichtag 107