Biological Physics Seminar

	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of Physics Loomis Laboratory of Physics (corner of Goodwin & Green, Urbana)
	Biological Physics Seminar Series Coordinator: Paul Selvin (selvin@uiuc.edu) Taekjip Ha (tjha@uiuc.edu) To schedule an appointment with the speaker please contact: Shawn McCormick, 184 Loomis, 4-5620
SEMINARS:
Date/Time/Location	Speaker/Title
October 3, 2008 2 PM Room 464 Loomis	Margaret Gardel Department of Physics University of Chicago, Illinois
PAST SEMINARS:
April 25, 2008 2 PM Room 464 Loomis	Rob Phillips Departments of Applied Physics, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, and Mechanical Engineering California Institute of Technology, Pasadena "Transcriptional Regulation and Biological Action at a Distance"
April 18, 2008 2 PM Room 464 Loomis	Roberto Galletto Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO "Assembly and disassembly of individual RecA nucleoprotein filaments"
April 11, 2008 11 AM Room 151 Loomis	Leor Weinberger Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of California, San Diego "Transient-mediated decision making between two cell-fates in HIV (why bistability is unnecessary)"
April 4, 2008 2 PM Room 464 Loomis	Joshua Weitz School of Biology Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta "Evolutionary ecology of bacterial viruses"
March 28, 2008 2 PM Room 464 Loomis	Michael Grabe Department of Biological Sciences University of Pittsburgh, PA "Insight into the nature of voltage sensing in voltage-gated potassium channels"
March 14, 2008 2 PM Room 464 Loomis	Christopher Rao Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering University of Illinois, Urbana "How cells count"
March 7, 2008 2 PM Room 464 Loomis	Liviu Movileanu Department of Physics Syracuse University, NY "Single-molecule biophysics with a protein nanopore"
February 29, 2008 2 PM Room 464 Loomis	Greg Engel Department of Chemistry University of Chicago, IL "Mechanisms of Excitonic Energy Transfer within Photosynthetic Antenna Complexes"
January 18, 2008 2 PM Room 464 Loomis	Eli Rothenberg Department of Physics University of Illinois, Urbana "Exploring the mechanisms of replication and repair proteins through single-molecule analysis; Human Rad52 and Archaeal MCM"
January 11, 2008 2 PM Room 464 Loomis	Michael Schlierf, Postdoc Candidate Institute for Biophysics Munich University of Technology, Germany "Protein folding studied by single-molecule force spectroscopy"
October 12, 2007 2 PM Room 464 Loomis	Matt Comstock, Postdoc Candidate Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, CA "Reversible Photomechanical Switching of Individual Engineered Molecules at a Metal Surface"
September 21, 2007 2 PM Room 464 Loomis	Johan Paulsson Department of Systems Biology Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA "Stochasticity in gene expression and replication: theory and experiments"
September 14, 2007 2 PM Room 464 Loomis	David Lilley School of Life Sciences Research Biocentre University of Dundee, UK "How does a ribozyme work?"
September 12, 2007 4 PM Room 151 Loomis	Jörg Langowski Division Biophysics of Macromolecules German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany "Nucleosome and chromatin structure and dynamics studied by FRET and computer modeling"
August 13, 2007 4 PM Room 464 Loomis	Dae Won Moon Nano-Bio Fusion Research Center Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science "Nano-Bio Technology for Label-Free Biochemical Imaging of Single Cells and Tissues"
April 27, 2007 2 PM Room 464 Loomis	John F. Marko Departments of Physics & Astronomy and Biochemistry, Molecular Biology & Cell Biology Northwestern University, Evanston, IL "Micromechanical study of DNA-protein interactions and chromosome structure"
April 6, 2007 2 PM Room 464 Loomis	Gregory L. Timp Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Beckman Institute, University of Illinois, Urbana "A Tiny Revolution: New Tools for Synthetic Biology"
March 30, 2007 2 PM Room 464 Loomis	Hyun Joon Kong Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Fellow Institute of Genomic Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana "Analysis of Cross-talk between Cells and Extracellular Matrix using Engineered ECM"
March 23, 2007 2 PM Room 464 Loomis	Seong Keun Kim School of Chemistry Seoul National University, Korea "Spectroscopy of Biological Building-block Molecules in the Gas Phase, in Solution, and at Single Molecule Level"
March 16, 2007 2 PM Room 464 Loomis	Michael Laub Department of Biology Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge "System-level approaches to mapping regulatory networks and signaling pathways in bacteria"
March 9, 2007 2 PM Room 464 Loomis	Huimin Zhao Departments of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Chemistry, and Bioengineering University of Illinois, Urbana "Biomolecular Engineering of Genetic Switches and Biological Catalysts"
February 16, 2007 2 PM Room 464 Loomis	Abigail Miller, Postdoc Candidate Department of Chemistry University of California, Berkeley "Applications of Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy to the Study of Protein Aggregation"
February 9, 2007 2 PM Room 464 Loomis	Michael W. Deem John W. Cox Professor in Biochemical and Genetic Engineering Professor of Physics and Astronomy Rice University, Houston, TX "Phase Diagrams of Quasispecies Theory with Recombination and Horizontal Gene Transfer"
February 2, 2007 2 PM Room 464 Loomis	Ido Golding Department of Physics University of Illinois, Urbana "Deconstructing Intracellular Dynamics with Single Event Resolution: Bacterial Transcription and Beyond"
January 26, 2007 2 PM Room 464 Loomis	Chenghang Zong Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry University of California, San Diego "The Analysis of Protein Folding Routes and Structure Prediction"
January 19, 2007 2 PM Room 464 Loomis	Yann Chemla Department of Physics University of Illinois, Urbana "Viral DNA Packaging One Step at a Time"
October 13, 2006 2 PM Room 464 Loomis	Bruce J. Schnapp Department of Cell and Developmental Biology Oregon Health and Science University "Motor protein regulation in zebrafish pigment cells"
April 7, 2006 3 PM Room 464 Loomis	Philippe Cluzel Institute for Biophysical Dynamics University of Chicago, IL "Towards a digital bacterium: The logic of adaptation in chemotaxis"
March 3, 2006 3 PM Room 464 Loomis	Anne Gershenson Brandeis University, MA "Protease inhibition by serpins: Single molecule studies of molecular mousetraps"
February 10, 2006 3 PM Room 464 Loomis	Mark Williams Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Complex Systems Northeastern University, Boston, MA "Quantifying single-stranded DNA binding protein interactions by DNA stretching"