Seminars

The Department of Biophysics hosts a vibrant seminar series, where senior leaders and rising stars discuss their latest work and spend a day meeting with faculty, postdocs, and students. Seminars are held on the second Thursday of each month. The sessions alternate with the Molecular Biophysics Discussion group (hosted by the Molecular Biophysics Graduate Program) and the Department of Biochemistry seminars.

Lectures are held at noon in ND13.218 unless otherwise noted.

DateSpeaker and Seminar Title Host
9/13/2012 Fred Chang, M.D., Ph.D.
Columbia University
"Regulation of cell size: How do cells know how big they are?"
Luke Rice
10/11/2012 Ron Dror, Ph.D.
D. E. Shaw Research
"How drugs bind and control their targets: Characterizing GPCR signaling through long-timescale simulation."
Daniel Rosenbaum
11/8/2012 Yale Goldman, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania
"Single Molecule Approaches for Molecular Motor and Cell Motility Research "
Mike Rosen
12/13/2012 Ad Bax, Ph.D.
National Institutes of Health
"An NMR study of membrane fusion related proteins: hemagglutinin and alpha-synuclein"
Jose Rizo-Rey
1/10/2013 Patsy Babbitt, Ph.D.
University of California San Francisco
"A Global Context Predicting Function in Enzyme Superfamilies"
Nick Grishin
2/14/2013 Katherine Henzler-Wildman, Ph.D.
Washington University in St. Louis

“Conformational Exchange in the Mechanism of Multidrug Efflux by EmrE"

Dominika Borek
3/14/2013 Cynthia Wolberger, Ph.D.
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
"Mechanisms of Ubiquitin Signaling in the DNA Damage Response"
Chad Brautigam
4/11/2013 Andreas Martin, Ph.D.
University of California Berkeley
“Asymmetry in Structure and Function: The 26S Proteasome and its Mechanisms for Protein Substrate Degradation” 
Diana Tomchick
5/9/2013 Klaus Hahn, Ph.D.
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
“Peeking and poking at GTPases in living systems using designed protein probes” 
Kevin Gardner