Fall 2017

Fall 2017 Seminars in Biochemistry, Biophysics & Biodesign | View Current Seminar Schedule

Date

Speaker

Affiliation

Title

9/6

Hashim M. Al-Hashimi
Professor of Biochemistry
Director, Duke Center for RNA Biology

Duke University, Duke School of Medicine

Beyond Watson and Crick: Seeing the Invisible Genome

9/13

John L. Rubinstein
Professor of Biochemistry

University of Toronto

Electron cyromicroscopy of rotary ATPases

9/20

Rosh Hashana

No Seminar

9/27

Chris Fromme
Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Biology & Genetics
Weill Institute for Cell & Molecular Biology

Cornell University

How does the Golgi complex make decisions? A biochemical approach reveals extensive crosstalk between GTPase pathways

10/4

Simon Scheuring
Assistant Professor of Physiology & Biophysics
in Anesthesiology (Interim); Head, Bio-AFM Lab

Weill Cornell Medical College

High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopy: The dawn of dynamic structural biochemistry

10/11

Michael Starnbach
Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunobiology

Harvard Medical School

Chlamydia infection, a strategy of stealth

10/18

Mei Hong
Professor, Department of Chemistry

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Structure and assembly of membrane proteins and amyloid fibrils from solid-state NMR

10/25

Thomas A. Steitz
Professor, Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry and Chemistry

Yale University

From the Structure and Function of the Ribosome to new Antibiotics

11/1

No Seminar

No Seminar

11/8

Bryan Wilkins
Assistant Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry

Manhattan College

Mapping the nucleosomal interactome of the native yeast chromatin landscape

11/15

Eric D. Siggia
Professor, Physical, Mathematical & Computational Biology

Rockefeller University

Exploring aspects of mammalian embryonic development with micropatterned colonies of human embryonic stem cells

11/22

Thanksgiving Week

No Seminar

No Seminar

11/29

Andrew Jon Nieuwkoop, Assistant Professor, Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Rutgers University

Using Very Fast Spinning and Proton Detection to Solve Protein Structures with Solid State NMR

12/6

Jean P. Gaffney
Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Department of Natural Sciences

Baruch College

Finding New Mechanisms of Fluorescence in Marine Organisms