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Seminar Series 2007-2008

Mondays at 4:00 p.m., Room 1400 Chemistry

November 5

Professor Michael Knapp (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Title: “Controlling Redox Chemistry in Metalloenzyme/NanoparticleHybrids”

November 26

Professor Peter Z. Qin (University of Southern California)
Title: “Site-Directed Spin Labeling Studies of Nucleic Acids”

December 3

Professor James Glazier (Indiana University)
Host: Michal Zochowski
Title: “Physics-Based Multi-Cell Modeling of Biological Development using the GGH Model and CompuCell3D—Applications, Technology and Open Problems”

2008
February 11

Professor Keith Moffatt (University of Chicago)
Host: Jennifer Ogilvie
Title: “Generate a Biological Signal?  Static and Time-resolved Crystallography of Photoreceptors”

March 3

Professor Katherine Henzler-Wildman (Brandeis University)
Biophysics Faculty Search Candidate
Title: “Linking Enzyme Dynamics with Function: The Role of Motion on Multiple Timescales”

March 5
Wednesday

Professor Chad Leidy (Universidad de los Andes)
Biophysics/Physics Faculty Search Candidate
Title: “PLA2 Hydrolysis of Lipid Bilayers:  The Dynamic Interplay Between Membrane Structure
and Enzymatic Activity”
**THIS SEMINAR WILL TAKE PLACE IN 340 WEST HALL AT 1:30 P.M.

March 24

Professor James Bowie (University of California, Los Angeles)
Host: Mark Saper

Title: "Membrane Protein Folding"

March 31

Professor Yoshitaka Ishii (University of Illinois, Chicago)
Host: A. Ramamoorthy
Title: TBA

April 7

Professor Susan Krueger (NIST Center for Neutron Research)
Host: Deborah Kuzmanovic
Title: “Structure and Function of Biological Macromolecules in Solution:  The Unique Role of Small Angle Neutron Scattering”

April 14

Professor Carl Johnson (Vanderbilt University)
Host: David Lubensky
Title: “As Time Glows By: Biological Clock Systems from Populations to Molecules”

April 21

Professor Scott Prosser (University of Toronto)
 Host: A. Ramamoorthy
Title: “Multinuclear 19F NMR approaches to studies of protein structure and Dynamics - A Mutagenesis Free Approach to Assignment Using 13C,15N-Enriched Monofluorinated Amino Acid Probes”



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