Biophysics 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.
Lectures are presently held virtually via zoom
| Date | Speaker and Seminar Title - 2020-2021 Season | Host |
|---|---|---|
| Nov 5, 2020 |
Simon Alberti, Ph.D. – Professor, Biotechnology Center TU Dresden, Germany Title: "Phase separation as a stress survival strategy"-Zoom Link |
Kendra Frederick, Ph.D. |
| Dec 3, 2020 |
Alf Honigmann, Ph.D. – Max Planck Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell and Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG), Dresden, Germany Title: "Assembly, Structure and Function of the Apical Junctional Complex" |
Mike Rosen, Ph.D. |
| Jan 7, 2021 |
Emmanuel Levy, Ph.D. – Principal Investigator, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Title: "Principles of Protein Assembly in Cells"
|
Kimberly Reynolds, Ph.D. |
| Feb 4, 2021 |
Volodymyr Korkhov, Ph.D. – Assistant Professor, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland Title: "Structure and function of membrane adenylyl cyclases"
|
Xiaochun Li, Ph.D. |
| Mar 4, 2021 |
Elena Conti, Ph.D. – Director, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany Title: "The exosome complex: the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hide of RNA degradation" |
Jan Erzberger, Ph.D. |
| Apr 1, 2021 |
Dora Tang, Ph.D. – Research Group Leader, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany Title: “Bottom up synthetic cellularity" |
Biophysics Graduate Students - Martyna Kosno |
| May 6, 2021 |
Patrick Cramer, Ph.D. – Director, Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Gottingen, Germany Title:"New Insights into Chromatin Transcription" |
Michael Rosen, Ph.D. |
| June 3, 2021 |
Paola Picotti, Ph.D. -Deputy head of Institute for Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Title:"Proteomes in 3D"
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Kendra Frederick, Ph.D. |