Seminars in Year 2002

Thursday, Nov 21, 2002  (1:30 pm; Board of Overseers, Ground Floor Forchheimer)
Dr. Floyd Romesberg, Professor, Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 
"Understanding Protein Dynamics" 
Hosted by Dr. Steve Schwartz

Thursday, Nov 14, 2002  (1:30 pm; Board of Overseers, Ground Floor Forchheimer)
Dr. Zorka Smedarchina, Theory and Computation Program, Ottawa, Canada
"Protein Tunneling in Enzymatic Reactions" 
Hosted by Dr. Steve Schwartz

Thursday, Oct 24, 2002  (1:30 pm; Board of Overseers, Ground Floor Forchheimer)
Dr. Helmut Beinert, Institute of Enzyme Research, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
"What is New about Iron-Sulfur Protein"   
Hosted by Dr. Jack Peisach

Thursday, Oct 17, 2002  (1:30 pm; Board of Overseers, Ground Floor Forchheimer)
Dr. Lorenzo Cordone, Professor, Scienze di Palermo, University di Palermo, Palermo, Italy
"A Unique Energy Landscape Regulates the Dynamics of both Protein and External Matrix in Saccharide Coated Carboxy-Myoglobin"  
Hosted by Dr. Joel Friedman

Thursday, Oct 10, 2002  (1:30 pm; Board of Overseers, Ground Floor Forchheimer)
Dr. Christopher Miller, Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Howard Hughes Institute, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
"Prokaryotic Chloride Channels: A Function to Go with the Structure"  
Hosted by Dr. Alan Finkelstein

Thursday, Sept 26, 2002  (1:30 pm; Board of Overseers, Ground Floor Forchheimer)
Dr. Sean Decatur, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA
"Probing Peptide Conformation via Isotope-edited FTIR Spectroscopy"  
Hosted by Dr. Denis Rousseau

Thursday, May 30, 2002  (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Mark T. Nelson, Professor, Department of Pharmacology, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
"Regulation of the Structure and Function of Blood Vessels and Urinary Bladder by Potassium Channels"  
Hosted by Dr. George Christ

Thursday, May 23, 2002  (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Lonnie Wollmuth, Assistant Professor, Neurobiology & Behavior, SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 
"Functional Architecture of Glutamate Receptor Channels"  
Hosted by Dr. Myles Akabas

Thursday, May 16, 2002  (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Matthew S. Turner, Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Warwick, England
"Equilibrium Telomeric T-Loops and Endocytotic Budding Mechanisms Analyzed by Physical Methods"  
Hosted by Dr. Robin Briehl

Thursday, April 25, 2002  (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 1st Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Kevin Behar, Research scientist, Department of Psychiatry, Yale University, New Haven, CT 
"NMR Studies of Brain GABA Synthesis in vivo"  
Hosted by Dr. Linda Jelicks

Monday, April 22, 2002  (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Ronald W. Holz, Professor, Department of Pharmacology, University of Michigan, Ann Harbor, MI
"Spectroscopy Granule Dynamics and Exocytosis: Studies in Adrenal Chromaffin Cells Using Total Internal Reflection"  
Hosted by Dr. Alan Finkelstein

Thursday, April 18, 2002  (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Shi-Jie Chen, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Biochemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
"RNA Hairpin Folding Kinetics"  
Hosted by Dr. Mark Chance

Thursday, April 11, 2002  (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Quinhong He, Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Physics and Radiology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY  
"Protein Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Imaging of Human Breast Cancer"  
Hosted by Dr. Linda Jelicks

Friday, April 5, 2002  (11:00 am; Dean's Conference Room)
Dr. Andras Fiser, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Rockefeller University, New York, NY
"Evolution and Physics in Comparative Protein Structure Modeling"  
Hosted by Dr. Steve Schwartz

Friday, March 22, 2002  (10:00 am; Dean's Conference Room, 3rd Floor Belfer )
Dr. Paul Harrison, Post Doctoral Fellow, Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University
"Genes and Pseudogenes in the Eukaryotic Genome (and Some Insights into Proteome Evolution)" 
Hosted by Dr. Steve Schwartz

Thursday, March 21, 2002  (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Douglas Rothman, Associate Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Yale University School of Medicine, Branford, CT 
"MRS Investigations of The Glutamate / Glutamine and GABA / Glutamine"  
Hosted by Dr. Linda Jelicks

Thursday, March 7, 2002  (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Roderick Mackinnon, Professor, Department of Molecular Neurobiology and Biophysics, Rockfeller University, New York, NY
"Ion Conduction and Selectivity in Potassium Channels"  
Hosted by Dr. Alan Finkelstein

Thursday, March 7, 2002  (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Jaoseph A Mindell, Research Scientist, Department of Biochemistry, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
"CLC Chloride Channels: From Function to Structure and Back"  
Hosted by Dr. Karen Jakes

Friday, Feb 22, 2002  (1:30 pm; Ullmann322)
Dr. Vladimir Mandelshtam, Assistant Professor, University of California, Irvine, Department of Chemistry, Irvine, CA
"Superresolution Methods of Spectral Analysis in Computational / Experimental Chemistry"  
Hosted by Dr. Steven Schwartz

Thursday, Feb 14, 2002  (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Phong Tran, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Columbia University, Department of Microbiology, New York
"Microtubule Architecture and Cellular Spatial Organization"  
Hosted by Department of Physiology and Biophysics

Thursday, Feb 7, 2002  (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. William Royer, Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Pharmacology, Worcester, MA 
"Structural Diversity in Quaternary Assembly and Allosteric Mechanisms of Cooperative Hemoglobins"  
Hosted by Dr. Jack Peisach

Thursday, Jan 31, 2002  (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Virginijus Barzda, Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of California, San Diego, CA 
"Advanced Imaging and Nano-Spectroscopy in Biological Systems"  
Hosted by Department of Physiology and Biophysics

Thursday, Jan 17, 2002  (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Patrick L. Wintrode, Post-Doctoral Scholar, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 
"The Response of Proteins to Thermal Stress: in vitro Evolution, Computational, and H/D Exchange Studies"  
Hosted by Department of Physiology and Biophysics

Thursday, Jan 10, 2002  (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Jason Hall, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins Medical School, Baltimore, MD 
"Determinants of Substrate Specificity in The UhpT Transporter of E. coli"  
Hosted by Department of Physiology and Biophysics

Wednesday, Jan 9, 2002  (10:30 am; Forchheimer Building, 1st Floor Lecture Hall)
Mr. Jose Perez, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, AECOM 
"Dynamics and Function of Different Conformational Structures in Proteins"  
Thesis Defense, Advisor: Dr. Joel Friedman

 

 

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