Biophysics Seminar

The biophysics seminar is a joint activity of the Department of Physics and the Biophysics graduate program of the Ohio State University. In the 2011/2012 academic year, the seminar will be organized in "seminar days" which each feature an external speaker, a student speaker, and an internal speaker. These seminar days will also include a lunch or coffee break to encourage interaction between Biophysicists around campus. The dates, times, and locations of these seminar days are listed below.

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. 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 addition to the three seminar days per quarter there are student presentations which are 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 and location Time Speaker Title
9/30/2011
Smith room
11:00 Yaoqi Zhou
Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis
Shedding light on the dark matter in the universe of protein structures and protein-RNA interactions
12:00 Sverre Aune Nitric oxide synthase activation during reduced coronary perfusion preserves post-ischemic myocardium
12:30 lunch break with pizza
1:00 Chinlin Guo
Caltech
Long-range mechanical force enables self-assembly of epithelial tubules in fluidic/semi-fluidic phases
10/19/2011
Smith room
1:30 Stefanos Sarafianos
University of Missouri
Chinks in the armor of killer viruses
2:30 Jiwei Huang Multispectral imaging of cutaneous tissue oxygenation
3:00 coffee break with cookies
3:30 Carlos Castro
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Programming Biological Self-Assembly for the Design of Nanoscale Engineering Tools and Materials
11/28/2011
115 BRT
1:30 Harmen Bussemaker Dissecting protein-DNA recognition using high-throughput sequencing
2:30 Katie Binzel
Knopp lab
How does the acquisition time impact PET quantification?
3:00 coffee break with cookies
3:30 Nicanor Moldovan Multiscale Modelling of Cellular Resilience: Role of Solvent-Mediated Structural Coupling
1/12/2012
Smith room
1:30 Steve Johnson
Brigham Young University
Chromatin Architecture, Nucleosome Positioning and Gene Regulation
2:30 Ryan Pavlovicz Discovery and characterization of a novel negative allosteric binding site on nicotinic acetylcholine receptors
3:00 coffee break with cookies
3:30 Anil Pradhan Monochromatic X-Ray Nano-Theranostics
2/10/2012
Smith room
10:30 Jennifer Ogilvie
University of Michigan
Snapshots of Biology with a Femtosecond Camera
11:30 Kelsey Schafer
Kuret lab
What would it take to diagnose Alzheimer's disease? A predictive study using pharmacokinetic modeling of PET imaging agents
12:00 lunch break with pizza
12:30 Michael Knopp
Department of Radiology
Biomedial Imaging: Insight, Imagination and Innovation
2/17/2012
170 DHLRI
12:30 Poster session in DHLRI hallway
1:30 Robert Ross lecture
Peter Friedl
Nijmegen Centre for Molecular Life Sciences
Imaging cancer invasion in vivo: mechanisms, resistance niches and therapy
3:00 Opportunity for students to meet speaker
4/4/2012
Smith room
1:00 Peter Hoffmann
Wayne State University
Where mechanics, chemistry and thermodynamics meet: Exploring single protein interactions with an atomic force microscope
2:00 Brian Maxwell
Suo lab
Single Molecule and Ensemble Level FRET Studies of Two DNA Polymerases
2:30 coffee break with cookies
3:00 Chen Gu
Department of Neuroscience
Polarized Axon-Dendrite Targeting of Kv3 (Shaw) Channels Regulates Action Potential Firing Frequency
4/27/2012
Smith room
1:30 James Faeder
University of Pittsburgh
Rule-Based Modeling of Biochemical Signaling
2:30 Lifei Tang
Ziolo lab
Neuronal Nitric Oxide Synthase (NOS1) is a Crucial Contributor to the Positive Inotropic Effect of Beta-Adrenergic Stimulation via Activation of Ca2+/Calmodulin-dependent protein kinase (CaMKII)
3:00 coffee break with cookies
3:30 Mamuka Kvaratskhelia
Department of Pharmaceutics
Aiming at a moving target: allosteric inhibitors of HIV integrase
5/31/2012
165 DHLRI
1:00 Gaurav Arya
UCSD
TBA
2:00 TBA  
2:30 coffee break with cookies
3:00 Debashish Chowdhury TBA

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Last update: 04/26/2012, Ralf Bundschuh