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 2009/2010 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
10/15/2009
Smith room
1:30 Kun Huang
Department of Biomedical Informatics
Large Scale Microscopic Image Analysis in Systems Biology
2:30 Tanping Li The Origin Of Slow Hydration Dynamics And Breakdown Of Linear Response
3:00 coffee break with cookies
3:30 Ruth Nussinov
Medical School, Tel Aviv University
and NCI-Frederick
Protein-protein Interactions: What is the Preferred way for Proteins to interact?
11/09/2009
Smith room
1:30 Alexander MacKerell
University of Maryland
Optimizing ligand-protein interactions via SILCS: Site Identification by Ligand Competitive Saturation
2:30 Yu Kay Law Ground and Excited State Dynamics Determine Thymine Dimer Formation in DNA
3:00 coffee break with cookies
3:30 Jane Jackman
Department of Biochemistry
Mechanism and function of the tRNAHis guanylyltransferase (Thg1): insights into 3'-5' nucleotide addition in multiple domains of life
11/18/2009
Smith room
11:00 Joachim Müller
University of Minnesota
Identifying Protein Association by Brightness Microscopy: From Principles to Retroviral Assembly
12:00 pizza lunch
12:30 Sverre Aune Mitochondrial Membrane Depolarization in the Isolated Beating Heart
1:00 Yan Chen
University of Minnesota
Nuclear receptors, ligands and coactivators: A study of their interactions using Fluorescence Fluctuation Spectroscopy
1/14/2010
Smith room
1:30 Martin Egli
Vanderbilt University
Structuring Circadian Time: The Cogs and Gears of a Molecular Clockwork
2:30 Sarah Javaid Nucleosome remodeling by hMSH2-hMSH6
3:00 coffee break with cookies
3:30 Chris Fall
University of Illinois at Chicago/MBI
Mitochondrial modulation of intracellular Ca2+ signaling
2/8/2010
Smith room
1:30 Piero Bianco
SUNY Buffalo
Single molecule insight into mammalian recombination mediator proteins
2:30 Angela Blissett Regulation of Collagen Fibrillogenesis by the Extracellular Domain of Discoidin Domain Receptors (DDR1 and DDR2)
3:00 coffee break with cookies
3:30 Sandor Gyorke
Department of Physiology and Cell Biology
Intracellular calcium release in health and cardiac disease
3/11/2010
Smith room
1:30 John Carpenter
University of Colorado at Denver
Protein Aggregates and Particles: Connections, Causes, Controls and Challenges
2:30 Veer Bhatt Crystal structure of a C4 UDP-GlcNAc Epimerase (WbgU) from Plesiomonas shigelloides O17
3:00 coffee break with cookies
3:30 Christopher Wyatt
Wright State University
TBA
04/07/2010
Smith room
11:00 Jeremy Gunawardena
Harvard University
TBA
12:00 pizza lunch
12:30 Xin Li Making Ubiquitinated Proteins with Unnatural Amino Acid Incorporation and Chemical Ligation Techniques
1:00 TBA TBA
04/26/2010
Smith room
1:30 Eve Marder
Brandeis University
Robert Ross lecture
5/27/2010
Smith room
1:30 Maria Spies
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
TBA
2:30 TBA TBA
3:00 coffee break with cookies
3:30 Keli Hu
Division of Pharmacology
TBA

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Last update: 2/1/2010, Ralf Bundschuh