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Molecular Biophysics Symposium

An International Symposium on Recent Advances in Biomolecular NMR Spectroscopy

Biophysics Seminar: "Electron Microscopy Approaches to Study Lipid-Protein Interactions"

Biophysics Seminar: "The Versatile Beta-Barrel Gives Up Secrets of the Membrane"

Biophysics Seminar: “Toward Total Synthesis of Chemotaxis, Phagocytosis and Stress Granules”

Biophysics Seminar: “Sensing of Small Molecules by Natural and in Vitro Evolved RNA Devices”

Biophysics Seminar: "Hijacking pathogenic membrane proteins to engineer cellular entry: A Molecular Biophysics Approach"

Biophysics Seminar "Active Matter: Applying the Materials Physics Paradigm to Biology"

Biophysics Seminar : "Having Fun with Unpaired Electrons: Enhancing the Sensitivity of NMR & Radicals Essential for Life"TBA

Biophysics Seminar Title: "Advances and Applications in Modern Nuclear Magnetic Resonance: Liquid State Hyperpolarization and Solid State Methods for Amyloid Fibrils"

Biophysics Seminar Title: "Tripping Up HCN Channel Regulation Through an Interaction with an Accessory Subunit"

Biophysics Seminar Title: "Structure of the HIV-1 5' Leader"

Jeff Gore, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Cooperation, Cheating, and Collapse of Biological Populations"(Fri, 4 Dec 2015)

Biophysics Seminar Featuring Charles Sindelar, Yale University, "One Tiny Step for Kinesin, One Slightly Less Tiny Lesson for Motor Mechanics"

Biophysics Graduate Student Seminars Featuring Kristin Schimert & Chanrith Siv, Fri, 6 Nov 2015

Biophysics Oncley Lecture Featuring Nobel Laureate Martin Karplus, Harvard University, Title: "Motion: The Hallmark of Life. From Marsupials to Molecules"

Biophysics Seminar Featuring Diane Lidke, University of New Mexico, Title: "Imaging Mast Cell Activation: from Single Molecules to Synapses"

Biophysics Graduate Student Seminar Featuring Ziah Dean & Sarah Graham (Click for Titles)

Biophysics Seminar Featuring Kaushik Choudhuri, UM Microbiology & Immunology, Title “³Nanoscale Architecture of the Immunological Synapse²”

Biophysics Seminar Featuring Arun Anantharam, Wayne State University, Title: "The Role of Secretory Granule Heterogeneity in the Regulation of Ca2+-Triggered Exocytosis"

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring Klaus Gawrisch, National Institutes of Health “Biophysical characterization of recombinant type II cannabinoid receptor, CB2”

BIOPHYSICS SYMPOSIUM Featuring Keynote Speaker Martin Schwartz, Yale University, "Flow sensing in the vascular system"

Dissertation Defense: Josef Dunbar, "Vibrational Probe and Methods Development for Studying the Ultrafast Dynamics of Preferential Solvation of Biomolecules by 2D-IR"

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring Thomas Pochapsky, Brandeis University "Watching enzymes at work: NMR for structural and functional studies of cytochromes P450"

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring Keith Miller, "Molecular Mechanisms of General Anesthetics; from Lipids to Channels”

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring Peijun Zhang "HIV-1 Capsid Assembly, Maturation & Host Cell Interactions"

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring Yang Zhang, U-M Biological Chemistry, "Protein structure prediction and protein design"

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring Giuseppe Melacini “Tapping the Translation Potential of cAMP-Signalling and Amyloid Inhibition using NMR”

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring Junji Iwahara, University of Texas Medical Branch - "How do proteins scan DNA?"

BIOPHYSICS/MCDB FACULTY CANDIDATE SEMINAR Featuring Randy Stockbridge “Microbial resistance to toxic fluoride: Structural and functional features of fluoride channels and transporters”

KRIMM LECTURE Featuring Xiaowei Zhuang, Harvard University - "Illuminating biology at the nanoscale with super-resolution imaging"

BIOPHYSICS FACULTY CANDIDATE SEMINAR Featuring Kwangho Nam, Umea University, Sweden - "Elucidating Roles of Protein Dynamics in Enzyme Function by Molecular Simulation"

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring Carlos Baiz “Mapping protein conformational ensembles and folding pathways with temperature-jump two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy”

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring Lukas Tamm "Entry of Ebola Virus and HIV by Membrane Fusion"

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring Jingyi Fei “RNA-Based Gene Expression and Regulation at Single-Molecule and Single-Cell Levels”

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring Jim Hurley, UC Berkeley - "The Structural Choreography of Cellular Self-Cannibalism"

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring Shixin Liu - University of California @ Berkeley, "Detection and Manipulation of Single Biomolecular Machines"

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring Bipohysics Graduate Students Julia Bourg & David Rowland - Titles TBA

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring Daniel Axelrod "Evanescence in Fluorescence Excitation and Emission Microscopy"

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring Hari Shroff - "Imaging Biology at High Spatiotemporal Resolution"

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring Ann Kimble-Hill "The Goods, the bad, and the ugly: Charges and their role in lipid phase separation"

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring James Ferrell - “Bistability, trigger waves, and the spatial coordination of mitosis”

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring Heiko Heerklotz "Modes of membrane disruption by antimicrobial compounds"

BIOPHYSICS GRADUATE STUDENT SEMINAR Featuring Samuel Kotler - Title TBA

*No Biophysics Seminar on Oct. 3rd*

BIOPHYSICS GRADUATE STUDENT SEMINAR Featuring Anton Loukianov “Transient-grating Stark Spectroscopy” & Madhuresh Sumit “Band-pass processing in GPCR-calcium-NFAT4 signaling”

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring Steve Scheiner "Hiding in Plain Sight: The CH--O Hydrogen Bond"

Biophysics Graduation Reception

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring Norbert Scherer "Insights into Stochastic Growth and Division of Single Bacterial Cells, or A Bug's Life"

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring Ilya Levental "Structural Determinants and Functional Consequences of Protein Partitioning to Membrane Domains"

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring Phil Selenko "Looking at Proteins Inside Live Cells with Atomic Resolution: Science Fiction or Science Reality?"

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring Peter Chien "Mechanisms of regulated protein degradation during the bacterial cell cycle"

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring Sam Hess "Localization-Based Super-Resolution Imaging: Methods and Biological Applications"

Biophysics Undergraduate Research Roundabout/Poster Session

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring David Schwab, "Universal Mechanisms of Multicellular Computation"

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring Rob Garrod "Simulating Pre-biotic Proto-stellar Chemistry in the Age of ALMA: The Curious Case of Glycine"

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring Emily Rauscher "Peering Into the Atmospheres of Extrasolar Worlds"

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring Wei Cheng "Optical Trapping and Multi-parameter Analysis of Single HIV-1 in Culture Media Reveal the Positive Cooperativity of Envelope Spikes in Mediating Viral Infection"

David Spiegel ""Exoplanets and Astrobiology"

Dawen Cai "Over the Brainbow - Tracing Neural Circuits in the Mouse Brain"

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring Charalampos (Babis) Kalodimos "NMR of Large Proteins: Molecular Chaperones"

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring Andy LiWang "Structural Gymnastics by Proteins Make the Clock Mechanism Go Around"

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring Senyon Choe "Facile NMR structure determination of human membrane proteins"

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring F. Peter Guengerich “Cytochrome P450 Steroid Oxidations: Answers and More Questions”

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring Kalodimos (Babis) Charalampos "NMR of Large Proteins: Molecular Chaperones"

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring Uhn-Soo Cho “Control of Substrate Access to the Active Site in Methane Monooxygenase”

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring Biophysics Graduate Student Matthew Stone

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring Prof. Steve Scheiner POSTPONED!!

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring Biophysics Graduate Students

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring Tatyana Igumenova Title: "Protein Kinase C: Structure, Dynamics, and Function of Regulatory Domains"

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring Prof. Zaida (Zan) Luthey-Schulten Title: "Stochastic simulations of cellular processes: From single cells to colonies"

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring Leela Ruckthong & Josef Dunbar

Biophysics Seminar Presented by Chad Rienstra "High Resolution Structures of Microcrystals, Membrane Proteins, and Fibrils by Solid State NMR"

Keynote Lecture of the Molecular Biophysics Training Grant Symposium

Biophysics Krimm Lecture, "Single-Molecule Spectroscopy and Imaging: 3D Nanoscopy and Biomolecular Dynamics"

Victoria D'Souza, Harvard, "Unraveling retroviral genome—one segment at a time"

Biophysics Research Poster Session

Lauren Webb, University of Texas @ Austin, "Investigating Electrostatic Mechanisms of Biomolecular Organization and Function Through Vibrational Spectroscopy"

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR<br>The Importance of Being Flexible: Consequences of Structural Fluctuations for Protein Function</br>

Gregory Bowman, University of California, Berkeley, "The importance of being flexible: consequences of structural fluctuations for protein function"

Hasan Yardimci, Harvard Medical School, "Single-molecule studies of replicative DNA helicases"

Jen Hsin, Stanford University, "Physical & Molecular Mechanisms of the Bacterial Division Machinery"

Stefano DiTalia, Princeton, "Signal integration and cell cycle switches in Drosophila embryonic development"

Nan Hao, Harvard University, "Dynamic signal processing by transcription factors"

Ran Kafri, Harvard Medical School, Title: "Regulation of cell size in animal cells"

Peter Wolynes, Rice University, to present the Oncley Lecture, "Recent Successes of the Energy Landscape Theory of Protein Folding"

*SEMINAR TO BE RESCHEDULED* Kevin Wood, Harvard University, "Decoding the multi-drug response in populations of bacteria and human cancer cells"

Terence Hwa, University of California, San Diego, "Bacterial Growth Laws: Origins and Consequences"

Allen Liu, UM Mechanical Engineering, "Systems Analysis of Clathrin-Coated Pit Dynamics"

Ruth Nussinov, NIH Center for Cancer Research *POSTPONED*

Magdalena Ivanova, UCLA, "Applications of Biophysical Methods to Studies of Amyloid Aggregation"

Carol Post, Purdue University, "Allosteric mechanism to regulate association of Syk tyrosine kinase with B cell receptor"

Angela Violi, UM Mechanical Engineering, "Update of Environmental Nanoparticles"

Eric Oldfield, University of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign - "Targeting Isoprenoid Biosynthesis in Drug Discovery"

Undergraduate Open House

Jacob Schaefer, Washington University in St. Louis, "Cell-Wall Architecture of Staphylococcus Aureus and the Mode of Action of Glycopeptide Antibiotics by Solid-State NMR"

Michael Mayer - UM Biomedical Engineering - "Nanopores with Fluid Walls for Characterizing Single Molecules"

David Weliky, MSU, Dept. of Chemistry "Structure/Function of Membrane-Associated Viral Fusion Proteins and Structure of Recombinant Proteins in Bacterial Inclusion Bodies"

Elizabeth Rhoades, Yale University "Probing polymormphic, aggregation-prone proteins with single molecule fluorescence: Studies of a-S ynuclein and Tau"

Symposium on Biophysics - Diverse Research at the Forefront, featuring Prof. Martin Zanni, Univ. of Wisconsin

Peter Wright, Scripps Research Institute, "Exploring protein energy landscapes by NMR relaxation"

Joachim Frank, Columbia University, to present the Oncley Lecture "The Dynamics of Translation as Seen by Cryo-EM"

Susan Marqusee, UC Berkeley, "Manipulating the protein energy landscape"

Yves Bollen, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands "Functional protein dynamics measured by NMR spectroscopy and single molecule fluorescence micrsocopy"

Alexander Nevzorov, NC State Univ., "Structure Determination of Membrane Proteins by Solid-State NMR: Uniaxial Alignment, Spectroscopic Assignment, and Structure Calculations"

Koon-Kiu Yan, Yale University "Biological Networks: Construction, structure and dynamics"

Andreas Doncic, Stanford University "Establishing principles of cell fate regulation"

Andreas Doncic, Stanford University "Establishing Principles of Cell Fate Regulation"

Yang-Yu Liu, Northeastern University "Taming Complexity-The mathematics of network control"

Qiong Yang, Stanford University, "Delayed switch-like negative feedback ensures orderly mitotic progression in early embryos"

Xiaohui Qu, Univ. of California, Berkeley "Watching single ribosome translation in real time: a quantitative"

Ilya Finkelstein, Columbia University, "How do DNA-binding motor proteins navigate on crowded DNA?"

Carlos Lopez, Harvard Medical School, "Exploring multiple apoptosis signaling mechanisms and their role in cancer biology using models as executable algorithms"

Megan Thielges, Stanford University, "Nonlinear Spectroscopy, Protein Dynamics, and Biological Molecular Recognition"

Prof. Daniel Southworth, U-M "The Structure and Mechanism of the Hsp90 Molecular Chaperone: A Ubiquitous Facilitator of Cellular Signaling "

Prof. Carl Frieden, University of Washington - “The Apolipoprotein E family of proteins and Alzheimer’s Disease

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