Biophysics Seminar

The biophysics seminar is a joint activity of the Department of Physics and the Biophysics graduate program of the Ohio State University. The seminar takes place

Wednesday, 2:30pm-3:30pm
The plenary talks of the seminar will take place in the Robert Smith Seminar Room (1080) in the new Physics Research Building. However, there are a few dates where this room is not available, so check the table below for remarks on the location.

The seminar serves as an opportunity to learn about the most exciting biophysics research elsewhere as well as a forum for discussion among the biophysics researchers and students at OSU. To this end, the seminar features external speakers, internal speakers, and student presentations. If you want to know more about the seminar, want to be included in the email list with seminar announcements, or are interested in meeting with a specific speaker, please contact Ralf Bundschuh.

Graduate students in the biophysics program for whom this seminar is the required class Physics 801 may find additional information at the web site http://cannoli.mps.ohio-state.edu/bph795. In the winter and spring quarter the student presentations will be held in smaller, self-organized groups to give every student a chance to present and to enable a more open discussion. Once the respective quarter comes close, information on these groups can be found at http://cannoli.mps.ohio-state.edu/bph795/groups.php.

Date Ext./Int./Stud. Speaker Title Abstract Location

09/19/2007 I Ramana Davuluri
Dept. Mol. Virology, Immunology, and Med. Genetics Computational Approaches for Integrative Cancer Biology Research: Some applications to model cis-regulatory modules and epigenetic changes Smith room

09/26/2007 S Yu-Kay Law
Hatice Gulcin Ozer Mechanism and Yields of Thymine Dimer Formation: From Excited State Dynamics to Quantum Yields of Dimer Formation
Informative Motifs in Protein Family Alignments abstract Smith room

10/3/2007 I Jessica Winter
Chemical and Biomedical Engineering Nanomaterials for Neural Engineering abstract Smith room

10/10/2007 S Manoj Nair
Geeta Vittal-Rao Membrane Insertion of the Bacillus thuringiensis Cry1Ab Toxin: Single Mutation in Domain II Blocks Partitioning
Mapping functional epitopes in the human prolactin hormone abstract 170 DHLRI

10/17/2007 S Weihong Qiu
Marianne Lee Ultrafast quenching of tryptophan fluorescence in proteins: Interresidue and intrahelical electron transfer
Simple is beautiful: a straightforward approach to improve the delineation of true and false positives in PSI-BLAST searches abstract Smith room

10/24/2007 E Jeffery G. Saven
University of Pennsylvania Engineering protein structure and function with theoretical protein design abstract Smith room

10/31/2007 E Paul Barbara
UT Austin Single Molecule Experiments on Nucleic Acid/Protein Interactions in Chaperoned Nucleic Acid Rearrangements of HIV-1 Reverse Transcription abstract Smith room

11/07/2007 S Sudarshan Seshadri
Carlos Amero Pyrin - A Key Regulator of Inflammation
Solution NMR of Large Molecules and Assemblies abstract Smith room

11/14/2007 I Peter Lu
Bowling Green State University Probing single molecule protein conformational dynamics abstract Smith room

11/21/2007 S Sarah Javaid
Seongjin Choi hMSH2-hMSH6 Interaction with Mismatched DNA
Proton NMR and MRI study of sub-millimeter sized biological objects abstract Smith room

11/28/2007 E Oscar Alzate
Duke University An apoE-dependent mitochondrial pathway in Alzheimer's disease abstract Smith room

01/09/2008 I Yi Zhao Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) for Cellular and Tissue Engineering abstract 170 DHLRI

01/16/2008 S student groups

01/23/2008 I Frederick Villamena Nitrones in Free Radical Detection and Therapeutics Smith room

01/30/2008 S student groups

02/06/2008 E Dannie Durand
Carnegie Mellon University Sequence similarity network reveals ancestry of multidomain proteins abstract Smith room

02/13/2008 E Steven Boxer
Stanford University Imaging and Reaction Dynamics in Model Membranes: Soft Nanoscience abstract Smith room

02/20/2008 S student groups

02/27/2008 S student groups

03/05/2008 E Shane Hutson
Vanderbilt University How does a fly make itself? Dissecting morphogenesis with laser-microsurgery. abstract Smith room

03/26/2008 E Kerry Bloom
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Springs and Struts in the Mitotic Spindle abstract Smith room

04/02/2008 S student groups

04/09/2008 I Jonathan Davis
Department of Physiology and Cell Biology Molecular Determinants of Cardiac and Skeletal Muscle Relaxation: the Merging of Biochemistry and Physiology abstract Smith room

04/16/2008 S student groups

04/21/2008 E Robert Ross lecture
Ahmed Zewail
Caltech Physical Biology and Visualization of Complexity abstract 170 DHLRI

04/30/2008 S student groups

05/07/2008 S student groups

05/14/2008 I Estelle Boyaka
Department of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine Rescuing the CFTR chloride channel involved in Cystic Fibrosis Smith room

05/21/2008 E George Makhatadze
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Molecular Strategy for Designing Robust Proteins: Looking Deeper at the Surface abstract Smith room

05/28/2008 S student groups

05/29/2008 Special Hyotcherl Ihee
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Time-Resolved X-ray Crystallography and Scattering 3:30pm
Smith room

Explanation of locations:

Smith room: Robert Smith seminar room, 1080 Physics Research Building, 191 West Woodruff Avenue
107 Hamilton: 107 Hamilton Hall, 1645 Neil Avenue
518A James: 518A James Cancer Hospital & Solove Research Institute JA, 300 West 10th Avenue
170 DHLRI: 170 Dorthy Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute, 473 West 12th Avenue
M100 SL: M100 Starling Loving Hall, 320 West 10th Avenue

Last update: 04/08/2008, Ralf Bundschuh

Date	Ext./Int./Stud.	Speaker	Title	Abstract	Location
09/19/2007	I	Ramana Davuluri Dept. Mol. Virology, Immunology, and Med. Genetics	Computational Approaches for Integrative Cancer Biology Research: Some applications to model cis-regulatory modules and epigenetic changes		Smith room
09/26/2007	S	Yu-Kay Law Hatice Gulcin Ozer	Mechanism and Yields of Thymine Dimer Formation: From Excited State Dynamics to Quantum Yields of Dimer Formation Informative Motifs in Protein Family Alignments	abstract	Smith room
10/3/2007	I	Jessica Winter Chemical and Biomedical Engineering	Nanomaterials for Neural Engineering	abstract	Smith room
10/10/2007	S	Manoj Nair Geeta Vittal-Rao	Membrane Insertion of the Bacillus thuringiensis Cry1Ab Toxin: Single Mutation in Domain II Blocks Partitioning Mapping functional epitopes in the human prolactin hormone	abstract	170 DHLRI
10/17/2007	S	Weihong Qiu Marianne Lee	Ultrafast quenching of tryptophan fluorescence in proteins: Interresidue and intrahelical electron transfer Simple is beautiful: a straightforward approach to improve the delineation of true and false positives in PSI-BLAST searches	abstract	Smith room
10/24/2007	E	Jeffery G. Saven University of Pennsylvania	Engineering protein structure and function with theoretical protein design	abstract	Smith room
10/31/2007	E	Paul Barbara UT Austin	Single Molecule Experiments on Nucleic Acid/Protein Interactions in Chaperoned Nucleic Acid Rearrangements of HIV-1 Reverse Transcription	abstract	Smith room
11/07/2007	S	Sudarshan Seshadri Carlos Amero	Pyrin - A Key Regulator of Inflammation Solution NMR of Large Molecules and Assemblies	abstract	Smith room
11/14/2007	I	Peter Lu Bowling Green State University	Probing single molecule protein conformational dynamics	abstract	Smith room
11/21/2007	S	Sarah Javaid Seongjin Choi	hMSH2-hMSH6 Interaction with Mismatched DNA Proton NMR and MRI study of sub-millimeter sized biological objects	abstract	Smith room
11/28/2007	E	Oscar Alzate Duke University	An apoE-dependent mitochondrial pathway in Alzheimer's disease	abstract	Smith room
01/09/2008	I	Yi Zhao	Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) for Cellular and Tissue Engineering	abstract	170 DHLRI
01/16/2008	S	student groups
01/23/2008	I	Frederick Villamena	Nitrones in Free Radical Detection and Therapeutics		Smith room
01/30/2008	S	student groups
02/06/2008	E	Dannie Durand Carnegie Mellon University	Sequence similarity network reveals ancestry of multidomain proteins	abstract	Smith room
02/13/2008	E	Steven Boxer Stanford University	Imaging and Reaction Dynamics in Model Membranes: Soft Nanoscience	abstract	Smith room
02/20/2008	S	student groups
02/27/2008	S	student groups
03/05/2008	E	Shane Hutson Vanderbilt University	How does a fly make itself? Dissecting morphogenesis with laser-microsurgery.	abstract	Smith room
03/26/2008	E	Kerry Bloom University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Springs and Struts in the Mitotic Spindle	abstract	Smith room
04/02/2008	S	student groups
04/09/2008	I	Jonathan Davis Department of Physiology and Cell Biology	Molecular Determinants of Cardiac and Skeletal Muscle Relaxation: the Merging of Biochemistry and Physiology	abstract	Smith room
04/16/2008	S	student groups
04/21/2008	E	Robert Ross lecture Ahmed Zewail Caltech	Physical Biology and Visualization of Complexity	abstract	170 DHLRI
04/30/2008	S	student groups
05/07/2008	S	student groups
05/14/2008	I	Estelle Boyaka Department of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine	Rescuing the CFTR chloride channel involved in Cystic Fibrosis		Smith room
05/21/2008	E	George Makhatadze Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	Molecular Strategy for Designing Robust Proteins: Looking Deeper at the Surface	abstract	Smith room
05/28/2008	S	student groups
05/29/2008	Special	Hyotcherl Ihee Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	Time-Resolved X-ray Crystallography and Scattering		3:30pm Smith room