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Seminars and Supergroup Meetings – 2008/2009 Academic Year


Career Events

Wed 22 April 5:30 pm – CIRES Auditorium – MICS Career Panel Discussion (click to play movie - if its developmental server is off line please try again later)

    

Biophysics Seminars – Wednesday 4:00 pm in CIRES Auditorium with these exceptions:

*Wednesday 4:00 pm in Duane G1B20

**Friday 4:00 pm in JILA Auditorium

 Sep 10 Ray Stevens (Scripps) Crystal structures of GPCRs and pharmacological insights
 Sep 17 Jeff Gordon (Washington Univ) Bioinformatics of human gut microbiome
 Oct 1* Paul Chaikin (NY Univ) Self-replication with colloids
 Oct 8 Art Johnson (Texas A&M) Fluorescence analysis of membrane protein biogenesis
 Oct 15 Sheng Ding (Scripps) Chemical approach to stem cell biology
 Oct 29 Lan Huang (UC Irvine) Proteomics analysis of the ubiquitin degredation pathway
 Nov 5 Christine Payne (Georgia Tech) Intracellular delivery and imaging of quantum dots
 Nov 12 Tobias Meyer (Stanford) Exploring cell signaling by fluorescence microscopy
 Nov 19 Jackie Barton (Caltech) DNA-mediated protein signaling in damage and repair
 Dec 10* Michelle Wang (Cornell) Unpacking DNA at the single molecule level
 Jan 28 Sean Eddy (Washington Univ) Next generation search tools: Beyond BLAST
 Mar 4 Jon Weissman (UCSF) Functional insights from hi-res genetic interaction maps
 Apr 1 Bill Weiss (Stanford) Structural analysis of the Wnt signaling pathway
 Apr 15 Mike Rosen (UT Southwestern) Strucure and dynamics of cooperativity in Vav1
 Apr 24** Jennifer Ogilvie (U Michigan) Spectroscopy from single molecules to single cells

Molecular Biophysics Supergroup – Monday 5:00-6:30 pm in Ekeley E1B20

 Sep 8 McIntosh & Smalyukh
Refreshments – Randolph & Yin
Introducer – K. Landgraf
  Oct 6  Randolph & Yin Labs
Refreshments – Pardi & Wuttke Labs
Introducer – J. Cope
  Oct 27  Pardi & Wuttke Labs
Refreshments – Knight & Sousa Labs
Introducer – P. Dittmer
  Nov 17  Knight & Sousa Labs
Refreshments –Betterton & McHenry Labs
Introducer – C. DeForest
  Dec 8  Betterton & McHenry Labs
Refreshments – Stowell & Batey Labs
Introducer – A. Garst
  Jan 26  Stowell & Batey Labs
Refreshments – Taatjes & Jimenez Labs
Introducer – C. Sandoval
  Feb 23  Taatjes & Jimenez Labs
Refreshments –Hoenger & Perkins Labs
Introducer – R. Brown
  Mar 16  Hoenger & Perkins Labs
Refreshments – Falke & Anseth Labs
Introducer – A. Libby
  Apr 6  Falke & Anseth Labs
Refreshments – Nesbitt & Palmer Labs
Introducer – A. Churnside
  Apr 27  Nesbitt & Palmer Labs
Refreshments – McIntosh & Smalyukh Labs
Introducer – J. Falke


Seminars and Supergroup Meetings – 2007/2008 Academic Year


Career Lunches

Fri Noon in CIRES S274, lunch provided

 TBA Career lunches TBA throughout the year

Biophysics Seminars – Wednesday 4:00 pm in CIRES Auditorium with these exceptions:

*Friday 4:00 pm in JILA Auditorium

 Sep 12 Chris Hill (Univ Utah) Crystallographic studies of proteosomes
 Oct 3 Jen. Lippincott-Schwartz (NIH) Biophysical imaging of events in live cells
 Oct 24 Jamie Williamson (Scripps) Structural studies of RNA structure-function
 Nov 7 Rod MacKinnon (Rockefeller) Crystallography of channels (Nobel Laureate)
 Nov 28 Sam Butcher (Wisconsin) RNA structure-function, NMR
 Nov 30* Matt Lang (MIT) Single molecule and optical tweezer analysis of proteins
 Dec 14* Harry Gray (Caltech) Optical/laser spectroscopy of metalloproteins, Bioinorganic
 Mar 5 Pascale Legualt (Montreal) RNA structure-function, NMR
 Mar 19 David Lilley (Dundee) Analysis of nucleic acid conformations by FRET
 Apr 2 Art Johnson (Texas A&M) Biophysical studies of G-proteins
 Apr 4* Kimberly Hamad-Schifferli (MIT) Nanotechnology and new materials
 Apr 9 Mike Rosen (UT Southwestern) Biophysical studies of Rho-GTPases
 Apr 23 Amy Rosenzweig (Northwestern) Structure-function of metalloenzymes

Molecular Biophysics Supergroup – Monday 5:00-6:30 pm in Ekeley E1B20 (may change in Spring)

 Aug 27 Copley & Lin Labs
Refreshments – McIntosh & Pardi Labs
Introducer – K. Landgraf
  Oct 1  McIntosh & Pardi Labs
Refreshments – Knight & Sousa Labs
Introducer – T. Armel
  Oct 22  Knight & Sousa Labs
Refreshments – Betterton & Batey Labs
Introducer – P. Dittmer
  Nov 12  Betterton & Batey Labs
Refreshments –Stowell & Voeltz Labs
Introducer – J. Cope
  Dec 10  Stowell & Voeltz Labs
Refreshments – Taatjes & Perkins Labs
Introducer – A. Edwards
  Jan 28  Taatjes & Perkins Labs
Refreshments – Hoenger & Jimenez Labs
Introducer – C. DeForest
  Feb 18  Hoenger & Jimenez Labs
Refreshments –Falke & Nesbitt Labs
Introducer – J. Fiore
  Mar 10  Falke & Nesbitt Labs
Refreshments – Anseth & Palmer Labs
Introducer – K. Wenberg
  Mar 31  Anseth & Palmer Labs
Refreshments – Leinwand & Wuttke Labs
Introducer – S. Altschuler
  Apr 28  Leinwand & Wuttke Labs
Refreshments – Copley & Yin Labs
Introducer – H. Lee

 


Seminars and Supergroup Meetings – 2006/2007 Academic Year


NEW! Career Lunches

Fri Noon in CIRES S274, lunch provided

 Sep 29 Joshua Bornhorst (U. Arkansas Med. Ctr.) Clinical chemistry: A field with a shortage of Ph.D. researchers and directors
 TBA Other career lunches TBA throughout the year

Biophysics Seminars – Wednesday 4:00 pm in CIRES Auditorium with these exceptions:

*Mon 4:00 pm in Benson 185, Thu 4:00 pm in MCDB A2B20, ***Friday 4:00 pm in JILA Auditorium

 Sep 18* Shimon Weiss (UCLA) Single-molecule studies of gene expression and rafts
 Sep 20 Rob Batey (U. Colorado) Crystallographic studies of RNA switches
 Oct 4 Greg Voth (U. Utah) Computational approaches to biomolecular dynamics
 Oct 5** Siegfried Musser (U. Texas) Biophysical studies of membrane proteins
 Nov 8 Karolin Luger (CSU) Crystallographic studies of chromosomes
 Nov 15 Olve Peersen (CSU) Structural analysis of protein-nucleic acid interactions
 Nov 29 U. Kutateladze (UCHSC) NMR structural studies of membrane docking proteins
 Dec 1*** Peter Wolynes (UCSD) Potential energy surfaces and protein folding
 Dec 13 Tom Steitz (Yale) Structure of DNA polymerase III
 Feb 14 Nick Grishin (UTSW, HHMI) Computational studies of protein structure-function
 Feb 28 Anna Marie Pyle (Yale, HHMI) RNA structure-function
 Mar 7 Carolyn Bertozzi (UC Berkeley, HHMI) Carbohydrate structure-function
 Mar 21 Chris Miller (Brandeis U., HHMI) Biophysics of ion channels
 Apr 4 Kathy Collins (UC Berkeley) Structural biology of telomeres
 Apr 11 Danny Reinberg (UMDNJ) Molecular mechanisms of epigenetics

Molecular Biophysics Supergroup – Monday 5:00-6:30 pm in Ekeley E1B20

 Sep 11 Knight & Sousa Labs
Refreshments – Betterton & McHenry Labs
Introducer – Carrie Bernecky
  Oct 2  Betterton & McHenry Labs
Refreshments – Batey & Jimenez Labs
Introducer – Micah Hamady
  Oct 23  Batey & Jimenez Labs
Refreshments –Hoenger & Stowell Labs
Introducer – Loren Hough
  Nov 13  Hoenger & Stowell Labs
Refreshments –Perkins & Taatjes Labs
Introducer – Karen Meyer-Arendt
  Dec 11  Perkins & Taatjes Labs
Refreshments –Ahn & Falke Labs
Introducer – Rebecca Montagne
  Feb 5  Ahn & Falke Labs
Refreshments – Nesbitt & Randolph Labs
Introducer – Sarah Altschuler
  Feb 26  Nesbitt & Randolph Labs
Refreshments – Leinwand & Palmer Labs
Introducer – Chris Arthur
  Mar 19  Leinwand & Palmer Labs
Refreshments – Goodrich & Wuttke Labs
Introducer – Daniel Cash
  Apr 16  Goodrich & Wuttke Labs
Refreshments – McIntosh & Pardi Labs
Introducer – Julie Fiore
  May 7  McIntosh & Pardi Labs
Refreshments – Knight & Sousa Labs
Introducer – David Wren

 


Seminars and Supergroup Meetings – 2005/2006 Academic Year


Biophysics Seminars – Wednesday 4:00 pm in CIRES Auditorium with these exceptions:

*Wednesday 4:00 pm in Duane Physics G1B20, **Friday 4:00 pm in JILA Auditorium

 Sep 7* Paul Selvin (Illinois) Single-molecule studies of molecular motors
 Sep 9** Jim Weisshaar (Wisconsin) Protein diffusion and vesicle fusion
 Sep 21 Ed Chapman (Wisconsin) Molecular mechanisms of Ca-triggered exocytosis
 Sep 28 Kevin Weeks (UNC) High-throughput RNA structural analysis
 Oct 5 Jack Szostak (Harvard) Transition from chemical to darwinian evolution
 Oct 7** Hans Frauenfelder (Los Alamos) Protein energy landscapes: flucuations & function
 Oct 12 Diana Murray (Weill of Cornell) Computational analysis of PIP signaling
 Oct 28** Jane Vanderkooi (U. Penn) Water interactions with biomolecules
 Nov 9 Scott Silverman (U. Illinois) DNA in bioorganic chemistry and nanotechnology
 Dec 7 Xiaowei Zhang (Harvard) Single molecule imaging in vitro and in vivo
 Feb 1 Thomas Kunkel (NIH) Structure-function studies of DNA replication fidelity
 Feb 15 Kira Misura (U. Washington) Computational approaches to protein structure
 Mar 1 Eric Stebbins (Rockefeller U.) Structural studies of bacterial invasion machinery
 Mar 8 S. Khorasanizadeh (U. Virginia) NMR analysis of histone methylation
 Apr 5 Steve Hahn (Hutchinson Inst.) Structural studies of RNA polymerases
 Apr 26 Peter von Hippel (U. Oregon) Biophysics of protein-nucleic acid interactions

Molecular Biophysics Supergroup – Monday 5:00-6:30 pm in Ekeley E1B20

 Aug 29 Clark & Copley Labs
Refreshments – Betterton & Pardi Labs
Introducer – Thomas Armel
  Sep 19  Betterton & Pardi Labs
Refreshments – Batey & Jimenez Labs
Introducer – Carrie Bernecky
  Oct 17  Batey & Jimenez Labs
Refreshments –Perkins & Stowell Labs
Introducer – Ryan Crisman
  Nov 14  Perkins & Stowell Labs
Refreshments –Resing & Taatjes Labs
Introducer – Carl Carlsson
  Dec 5  Resing & Taatjes Labs
Refreshments –Falke & Sousa Labs
Introducer – Amy Gelinas
  Jan 23  Falke & Sousa Labs
Refreshments – Nesbitt & Randolph Labs
Introducer – Liang Guo
  Feb 20  Nesbitt & Randolph Labs
Refreshments – Cech & Leinwand Labs
Introducer – Kyle Landgraf
  Mar 13  Cech & Leinwand Labs
Refreshments – Goodrich & Wuttke Labs
Introducer – Karen Meyer-Arendt
  Apr 10  Goodrich & Wuttke Labs
Refreshments – McIntosh & Chen Labs
Introducer – Rebecca Montagne
  May 1  McIntosh & Chen Labs
Refreshments – Clark & Copley Labs
Introducer – Troy Walton


Seminars and Supergroup Meetings – 2004/2005 Academic Year


Biophysics Seminars – Wednesday 4:00 pm in CIRES Auditorium (Wednesdays not listed are Biochemistry seminar dates)seminar dates)

 Aug 13 Howard Berg (Harvard) FRET detection of kinase activity in vivo
 Aug 19 Lloyd Smith (Univ. Wisconsin) Single molecule mass spec
 Oct 27 James Ferrell (Stanford) Ultrasensitivity and oscillations in the Cdc2 system
 Nov 10 John Perona (UC Santa Barbara) Ensuring fidelity in aminoacyl-tRNA synthesis
 Nov 17 Xiaojiang Chen (USC) Structures of T antgen and MCM complexes
 Dec 8 Anjana Rao (Harvard Med) Calcineurin-NFAT signaling
 Jan 12 Richard Roberts (Caltech) Protein synthesis machinery
 Feb 23 Gerard Marriott (Univ. Wisconsin) Biophotonics analysis of the cytoskeleton
 Mar 2 Sunny Xie (Harvard) Single molecule approach to biology
 Apr 13 David Cafiso (Univ. Virginia) EPR spin labeling study of a membrane transporter
 Apr 20 Hiroaki Suga (Univ. Tokyo) Artificial Ribozymes for Programming the Genetic Code

Molecular Biophysics Supergroup – Monday 5:00-6:30 pm in Ekeley E1B20

 Sep 20 Betterton & Pardi Labs
Refreshments – Sousa & Pace Labs
Introducer – Joe Falke
  Oct 18  Sousa & Pace Labs
Refreshments – Batey & Jimenez Labs
Introducer – Jen Roberts
  Nov 15  Batey & Jimenez Labs
Refreshments –Perkins & Stowell Labs
Introducer – Aaron Cullen
  Dec 6  Perkins & Stowell Labs
Refreshments –Ahn & Falke Labs
Introducer – Amanda Carpenter
  Jan 24  Ahn & Falke Labs
Refreshments – Anseth & Nesbitt Labs
Introducer – Christopher Arthur
  Feb 21  Anseth & Nesbitt Labs
Refreshments – Cech & Leinwand Labs
Introducer – Petia Gatzeva-Topalova
  Mar 14  Cech & Leinwand Labs
Refreshments – Goodrich & Wuttke Labs
Introducer – Parag Shah
  Apr 11  Goodrich & Wuttke Labs
Refreshments – McIntosh & Chen Labs
Introducer – Aaron S. Miller
  May 2  McIntosh & Chen Labs
Refreshments – Betterton & Pardi Labs
Introducer – Michael Latham


Seminars and Supergroup Meetings – 2003/2004 Academic Year


Biophysics Seminars – Wednesday 4:00 pm in CIRES Auditorium (Wednesdays not listed are Biochemistry seminar dates)

  Sept 10  Nils Walter (Univ. Michigan) In the fluorescent spotlight: RNA enzymes reveal their structural dynamics and utility
  Oct 8  Andy Robertson (Univ. Iowa) Protein Phrenology: Reading the Surface of Ubiquitin To Determine its Aptitudes and Tendencies
  Oct 15  Thorston Dierkman (Univ. Calif., Davis) Adaptability, Dynamics, and Electrostatics in RNA-Ligand Interactions
  Oct 22  Bob Sauer (MIT) Mechanism of Substrate Recognition and Unfolding During Energy Dependent Degradation by AAA+ Proteases
  Nov 12  Lloyd Smith (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison) Towards Single Molecule Mass Spectrometry
  Nov 19  Carolyn Price (Univ. Cincinnati) Telomeric DNA Processing: an Essential Step in Wuttke U. Cincinnati Med. Telomere Capping
  Dec 10 Erik Zuiderweg (Univ. Michigan)
 

Jan 27

  Steven White (Univ. California, Irvine) How Membranes Shape Protein Structure
  Feb 4  Sunney Xie (Harvard Univ)Single Molecule Chemistry & Spectroscopy
  Feb 11  Floyd Romesberg (Scripps) Protein Dynamics
  Feb 18  Kevin Gardner (Univ. Texas Southwestern Medical Ctr.)
  Feb 25 Gourisankar Gosh (Univ. California, San Diego)
  Mar 3 Adrian Ferre Amare (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Ctr.)
  Mar 10 Mona Norcum (Univ. Massachussetts Medical Ctr.)
  Mar 17 Henry Bourne (Univ. California, San Francisco) Eukaryotic Chemotaxis
  Mar 31 Chris Francklyn (Univ. Vermont)
  Apr 7 Mark Hochstrasser (Yale Univ.)
  Mar 14 Tom Kerppola (Univ. Michigan Medical School)
  Mar 21 Scott Strobel (Yale Univ.)
  Mar 28 James Spudich (Stanford Univ. ) Molecular Studies of Motor Proteins

Molecular Biophysics Supergroup – Monday 5:00-6:30 pm in Ekeley E1B20

 Sep 22 Ahn & Cech Labs
Refreshments – Sousa & Pace Labs
Introducer – Amy Buck
  Oct 13  Sousa & Pace Labs
Refreshments – Batey & Jimenez Labs
Introducer – Chris Downey
  Nov 10  Batey & Jimenez Labs
Refreshments –Perkins & Stowell Labs
Introducer – Aaron Cullen
  Dec 8  Perkins & Stowell Labs
Refreshments –Betterton & Falke Labs
Introducer – Aaron Miller
  Jan 26  Betterton & Falke Labs
Refreshments – Anseth & Nesbitt Labs
Introducer – Petia Gatzeva-Topalov
  Feb 16  Anseth & Nesbitt Labs
Refreshments – Pardi & Leinwand Labs
Introducer – Dan Resnicow
  Mar 8  Pardi & Leinwand Labs
Refreshments – Goodrich & Wuttke Labs
Introducer – Matt Seefeldt
  Apr 5  Goodrich & Wuttke Labs
Refreshments – McIntosh & Chen Labs
Introducer – Jennifer Roberts
  May 3  McIntosh & Chen Labs
Refreshments – Ahn & Cech Labs
Introducer – Aaron Hieb


Seminars and Supergroup Meetings – 2002/2003 Academic Year


Biophysics Seminars – Wednesday 4:00 pm in CIRES Auditorium (Wednesdays not listed are Biochemistry seminar dates)

  Oct 2  Jeff Kieft (Univ. Colorado Health Sciences Center) Structural insights into the molecular basis of Hepatitus C virus translation initiation
  Oct 9  Ignacio Tinoco (Univ. California, Berkeley) Mechanical unfolding of single RNA molecules: The biological way
  Oct 16  Deborah Wuttke (Univ. Colorado, Boulder) NMR studies of telomeric protein structures and the OB fold
  Oct 30  Patsy Babbitt (Univ. California, San Francisco) Computational development of models for understanding how protein structures deliver protein function
  Nov 6  Valerie de Crecy-Lagard (Scripps) From experimental evolution to comparative genomics: Revisiting the genetic code
  Mar 5  Kevin Shokat (UCSF) Engineered proteins for unnatural ligands: New tools for tracing protein kinase cascades
  Mar 6 (Thurs) Joel Pomeranz (Caltech) Transcriptional Target-Based Expression Cloning of Signaling Molecules
 

Mar 12

  Doug Turner (Univ. Rochester) Folding and Targeting RNA
  Mar. 19  Youxing Jiang (Rockefeller Univ.) Structure and Mechanism of a Calcium-Gated Potassium Channel
  Apr 2  Xiao-Fan Wang (Duke Univ.) ATM/ATR Activation, Checkpoint, and Genomic Instability
  Apr 9  Jeff Gelles (Brandeis Univ.) How kinesin keeps its grip: The mechanism of a processive motor enzyme
  Apr 16  Michelle Arkin (Sunisis Pharmaceuticals) Small-molecule Antagonists of Interleukin-2/IL-2 Receptor
  Apr. 23  Jun Liu (Johns Hopkins Univ.) Calcium Signaling Modules Regulating Transcription During T Cell Activation and Apoptosis

Molecular Biophysics Supergroup – Monday 5:00-6:30 pm in Porter (Fall) or Ekeley (Spring)

 Sep 16 Anseth & Falke Labs – Porter B121
Refreshments – Perkins & Stowell Labs
  Oct 14  Ahn & Copley Labs – Porter B121
Refreshments – Anseth & Falke Labs
  Nov 18  Nesbitt & Cech Labs – Porter B121
Refreshments – Ahn & Copley Labs
  Dec 9  Goodrich & Gill Labs – Porter B121
Refreshments –Nesbitt & Cech Labs
  Jan 13  McIntosh & Chen Labs – Ekeley 165/166
Refreshments – Goodrich & Gill Labs
  Feb 17  Rowlen & Pardi Labs – Ekeley 165/166
Refreshments – McIntosh & Chen Labs
  Mar17  Pace & Sousa Labs – Ekeley 165/166
Refreshments – Pardi & Rowlen Labs
  Apr 14  Batey & Wuttke Labs– Ekeley 165/166
Refreshments – Pace & Sousa Labs
  May 5  Perkins & Stowell Labs – Ekeley 165/166
Refreshments – Batey & Wuttke Labs


Seminars and Supergroup Meetings – 2001/2002 Academic Year


Biophysics Seminars – Wednesday 4:00 pm in CIRES Auditorium (Wednesdays not listed are Biochemistry seminar dates)

  Sep 5  Jack Johnson (Scripps) Structure and dynamics of DNA and RNA virus capsids
  Sep 26  Larry Hunter (Univ. Colorado Health Sciences Center) Data mining in the era of high throughput molecular biology
  Oct 3  Greg Petsko (Brandeis) Structural biology in the age of genomics
  Oct 24  Carlos Bustamante (Univ. California, Berkeley) Reversible unfolding of single RNA molecules by mechanical force
  Oct 31  Anthony Kossiakov (Univ. Chicago) Energetics of cytokine-induced receptor signaling
  Nov 7  Stephen Benkovic (Penn State Univ.) Perspective on biological catalysis
  Nov 28  Kris Palczewski (Univ. Washington) Crystal structure of rhodopsin: Implications for vision and G protein signaling
  Dec 5  Elizabeth Komives (Univ. California, San Diego) Biophysical studies of protein-protein interfaces using biacore, NMR and H/D exchange
  Dec 12  Rick Dahlquist (Univ. Oregon) Structural and dynamic view of sensory transduction in bacteria
  Feb 20  Chris Garcia (Stanford Univ.) Structural analysis of receptor-receptor and receptor-ligand interactions
 Mar 6 Steve Block (Stanford Univ.) Single molecule studies of molecular motors
 Apr 24 David Blair (Univ. Utah) Biophysics of the bacterial flagellar motor
  May 1  David Baker (Univ. Washington) Predictionof protein folding mechanisms

Molecular Biophysics Supergroup – Monday 5:00-6:30 pm in Porter (Fall) or Ekeley (Spring)

 Sep 17 Ahn & Falke Labs – Porter B121
Refreshments – Rowlen & Wuttke Labs
  Oct 15  McIntosh & Randolph Labs – Porter B121
Refreshments – Ahn & Falke Labs
  Nov 12  Cech & Pace Labs – Porter B121
Refreshments – McIntosh & Randolph Labs
  Dec 10  Gill & Goodrich Labs – Porter B121
Refreshments – Cech & Pace Labs
  Jan 28  Chen & Nesbitt Labs – Ekeley 165/166
Refreshments – Gill & Goodrich Labs
  Feb 18  Leinwand & Pardi Labs – Ekeley 165/166
Refreshments – Chen & Nesbitt Labs
  Mar 18  Sousa & Uhlenbeck Labs – Ekeley 165/166
Refreshments – Leinwand & Pardi Labs
  Apr 15  Batey & Wuttke Labs– Ekeley 165/166
Refreshments – Sousa & Uhlenbeck
  May 6  Perkins & Stowell Labs – Ekeley 165/166
Refreshments – Batey & Wuttke Labs