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 Gan, Department of Biological Sciences and Centre for BioImaging Science
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Three-dimensional exploration of eukaryotic nuclei