Spring 2017

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

Date

Speaker

Affiliation

Title

2/15

Nicholas Biais, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology

Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY

Superheroes of the human microbiota: an introduction to mechano-micro-biology

2/22

Erik Debler, Postdoctoral Researcher, Laboratory of Cell Biology

The Rockefeller University, New York, NY

Exploring and Exploiting Life-Cycle Stage Reprogramming in Protozoan Parasites

3/1

Alessandra Pernis, Senior Scientist, Hospital for Special Surgery; Professor of Medicine

Hospital for Special Surgery and Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY

Role of ROCK kinases in immunity and autoimmunity

3/8

David Cowburn, Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Department of Physiology & Biophysics

Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY

The molecular basis of selective diffusion in the nuclear pore

3/15

Scott C. Blanchard, Associate Professor, Department of Physiology & Biophysics

Weill Cornell Medical College

Imaging functional dynamics within individual integral membrane proteins using single-molecule FRET

3/22

P. Leslie Dutton, Professor, Biochemistry & Biophysics; Director, Johnson Foundation for Molecular Biophysics

University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA

Toward biogenesis of designed light and redox proteins working in living cells

3/29

Amedee des Georges, Assistant Professor, Structural Biology Initiative; Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

CUNY ASRC & CCNY, New York, NY

Understanding allosteric coupling in ion channels using cryo-electron microscopy image classification techniques

4/5

Kevin Dalby, Professor, Chemical Biology & Medicinal Chemistry, Johnson & Johnson Professor in Pharmacy

University of Texas, Austin, College of Pharmacy, Austin, TX

TBA

4/12

Spring Break

No Seminar

No Seminar

4/19

TBA

4/26

Peter Chien, Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Amherst, MA

Protein degradation during bacterial growth and development

5/3

No Seminar

5/10

Myriam Cotten, Associate Professor, Department of Applied Science

William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA

Leveraging Biophysical and Biochemical Methods to Investigate the Multifaceted Mechanisms of Host Defense Peptides

5/17

Nicole J. Francis, Associate Research Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Medicine; Director, Biochemistry of Epigenetic Inheritance research unit

University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada

Building and maintaining Polycomb repressed chromatin

5/31

Lu GanDepartment of Biological Sciences and Centre for BioImaging Science

National University of Singapore, Singapore

Three-dimensional exploration of eukaryotic nuclei