Seminar Archives
Title: Electrical and contractile regulation of cerebral blood flow by capillary pericytes
Speaker: Nicholas R. Klug, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology
The Robert Larner, M.D. College of Medicine, The University of Vermont
Host: Dr. Brant Isakson
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: Pinn Hall Conference Center
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Title: Dissecting the Spatial Regulation of Gene Expression in Mitochondrial Biogenesis
Speaker: Weihan Li, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Singer Lab, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Host: Brant Isakson, Ph.D.
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: Pinn Hall Conference Center
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Title: Autonomous clocks in cytoplasmic organization and division
Speaker: Mustafa Aydogan, Ph.D.
Sandler Faculty Fellow
Principal Investigator
UCSF Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics
Host: Brant Isakson, Ph.D.
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: Pinn Hall Conference Center
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Title: Mechanisms of mitochondrial Ca2+ transport — structure, function, and tissue-specific regulation
Speaker: Ming-Feng Tsai, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Physiology and Biophysics
University of Colorado School of Medicine
Host: Brant Isakson, Ph.D.
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: Pinn Hall Conference Center
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Title: Exploring the role of inter-organelle bridge-like lipid transport at endosomal membranes
Speaker: Michael G. Hanna, Ph.D.
Associate Research Scientist
Department of Cell Biology & Neuroscience
Yale School of Medicine
Host: Brant Isakson, Ph.D.
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: Pinn Hall Conference Center
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Title: TBA
Speaker: Sharonda LeBlanc, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Physics
NC State University
Host: Peter Kasson, Ph.D.
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Zoom
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Title: Dynamic structural biology one molecule at a time
Speaker: Sharonda LeBlanc, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Physics, NC State University
Host: Dr. Peter Kasson
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Snyder Building, Rm 314
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Title: Mass Spectrometry Au Naturel: A Tool for Structural Biology
Speaker: Joseph A. Loo, Ph.D.
University of California-Los Angeles
Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Professor, Department of Biological Chemistry, David Geffen School of Medicine
UCLA Molecular Biology Institute
Host: Gloria Sheynkman, Ph.D.
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Snyder 314
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Title: Mechanisms of inhibitors of mammalian translation
Speaker: Sichen (Susan) Shao, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School
Host: Ahmad Jomaa, Ph.D.
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Snyder 314
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Title: Learning to read and write protein evolution
Speaker: Brian Hie, Ph.D.
Stanford Science Fellow, Stanford University School of Medicine
Visiting Researcher at Meta AI
Host: Peter Kasson, Ph.D.
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location: Zoom
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Title: “How to Fold Every Protein – Proteome-Wide Measurements of Folding Call for a Post-Anfinsen Paradigm”.
Speaker: Stephen Fried, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology (by courtesy)
Assistant Professor, Thomas C. Jenkins Department of Biophysics (by courtesy)
Preceptor, Chemistry-Biology Interface (CBI) Program
Johns Hopkins University
Host: Peter Kasson, Ph.D.
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Snyder 314
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Title: RNA determinants of HIV-1 RNA transcript function and genome packaging
Speaker: Michael Summers, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences, UMBC
Host: Lukas Tamm, Ph.D.
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Snyder 314
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Title: Rbfox2 mediated RNA networks in cardiovascular development and disease
Speaker: Sunil K. Verma, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor
Kuyumcu-Martinez Lab
Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics
Host: Lukas Tamm
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location: Snyder 314
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Title: The Metabolic Clock of Pregnancy Regulating Uterine Smooth Muscle Contraction
Speaker: Liang Liang, Ph.D.
Research Scientist, Stanford University
Host: Dr. Lukas Tamm
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Location: Pinn Hall, 3rd Floor
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From Data to Scientific Insight
Speaker: David Cooper, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Research, Minor Lab, Department of Molecular Physiology & Biological Physics
University of Virginia School of Medicine
Host: Wladek Minor, Ph.D.
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Zoom
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Title: “Synthetic cells: Remodeling lipid membranes with DNA nanotechnology”
Speaker: Kerstin Göpfrich, Ph.D.
Group Leader, Biophyisical Engineering Group
Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg
Host: Ilya Levental, Ph.D.
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: Zoom (Note the 11:00 a.m. time)
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Design and Synthesis of Small Molecules which stabilize Auto-inhibition of the transcription factors ERG/FLI1 to inhibit binding of EWS-ERG/EWS-FLI1 to DNA
Speaker: Kiran Srimath Tirumala, Ph.D., Bushweller Lab
Host: Dr. John Bushweller
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Zoom
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Title: Synthetic carbohydrate-based materials.
Speaker: Martina Delbianco, Ph.D.
Group Leader, Biomolecular Systems, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces
Host: Jochen Zimmer
Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Location: Zoom (Note the 11:00 a.m. time)
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Title: Ensemble-based computational design of enzyme catalysis and conformational equilibrium
Speaker: Roberto Chica, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences
University of Ottawa
Host: Dr. Peter Kasson
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Zoom
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Title: Functional interplay between lipids and conformational transitions in human ACBA7
Speaker: Amer Alam, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
The Hormel Institute, University of Minnesota, Austin
Host: Dr. Ahmad Jomaa
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Zoom
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Title: Decision Making at early moments of protein biogenesis
Speaker: Shu-ou Shan, Ph.D.
Professor, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
California Tech
Host: Dr. Ahmad Jomaa
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Zoom
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Title: Studying structures of influenza viruses and vaccine platforms via electron microscopy
Speaker: Audray K. Harris, Ph.D.
Stadtman Investigator
Structural Informatics Unit, NIAID/DIR
Host: Dr. Peter Kasson
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Zoom
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Title: Structural studies of prokaryotic cell surfaces
Speaker: Tanmay Bharat, Ph.D.
Tenured Group Leader, Medical Research Council, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge University
Tenured Group Leader, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford
Host: Dr. Jochen Zimmer
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Zoom
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Visualizing Influenza Virus Assembly
Speaker: Dr. Seema Lakdawala
Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
University of Pittsburgh
Host: Dr. Peter Kasson
Via Zoom
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Location: Zoom
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Department Retreat – Molecular Physiology & Biological Physics
The department (virtual) research retreat will be held on Monday, October 26, 2020. Dr. Eva Nogales (UC Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley Labs, HHMI) will be our keynote speaker at 1:00 p.m..
More details will be posted when available.
Time: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Location: Zoom
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How cellular proteomes adapt, age and evolve
Speaker: Dr. Ken A. Dill, PhD
Director, Distinguished Professor of Physics, Chemistry & Applied Math
Louis & Beatrice Laufer Endowed Chair
Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY
Host: Dr. Peter Kasson, MD, PhD
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Location: ZOOM
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Christopher Caffalette Thesis Defense: Structural studies of the Gram-negative O antigen ABC transporter WzmWzt
Thesis Defense: Christopher Caffalette
Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics
Host: Dr. Jochen Zimmer
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: Zoom
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Title: Harnessing Bilayer Membranes and Cell-Free Systems to Investigate and Control Biological Processes
Speaker: Dr. Neha Kamat, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University
Host: Dr. Peter Kasson, MD, PhD
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Location: Zoom
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Title: Visualization of HIV membrane fusion inhibition by Serinc5 at multiple length scales
Amanda Ward – PhD Defense
Host: Dr. Lukas Tamm
Time: 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: Zoom
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Title: Mechanics, Infection and Self-Assembly of Viral particles: a Physical Virology approach
Speaker: Dr. Wouter Roos
Professor, Department of Molecular Biophysics, University of Groningen
Host: Dr. Owen Pornillos
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: Zoom
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Title: The sigma enigma: from opioid receptor to TMEM97
Speaker: Dr. Lian Guo
Department of Surgery
University of Virginia
Host: Dr. Lukas Tamm
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Location: Zoom
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Title: Super-resolution microscopy of organelle structure and dynamics, from centrioles to mitochondria
Speaker: Dr. Suliana Manley
Associate Professor of Physics
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
Host: Dr. Peter Kasson
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: Zoom
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Title: Computational design of new and improved proteins.
Speaker: Prof. Sarel-Jacob Fleishman
Department of Biomolecular Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Host: Dr. Peter Kasson
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: Zoom
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Title: Opening Windows into the Cell: Bringing Structure to Cell Biology Using Cryo-electron Tomography
Speaker: Dr. Elizabeth Villa
Assistant Professor
Department of Molecular Biology
University of California, San Diego
Host: Owen Pornillos and Mark Yeager
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Zoom
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Cancelled: To Be Rescheduled- Title: Prediction and design of proteins with neural machines
Speaker: Dr. Debora Marks
Associate Professor
Department of Systems Biology
Harvard Medical School
Host: Dr. Michael Wiener
Prediction and design of proteins with neural machines
What can we do with billions of genomes and immune repertoire sequences? We now an amazing opportunity to develop machine learning methods that can exploit this enormous natural diversity to predict the effects of human genetic variation, to predict how viral genomes may evolve and to design biological sequences for therapeutics and biotechnology. I will demonstrate how unsupervised probabilistic generative modeling of sequences can give surprisingly direct answers to questions about 3D structures, dynamics, genetic variation and the design of biological molecules optimized for specific functions. I will end by introducing challenges for extending these methods to diverse applications to a broad range of biotechnology applications.
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Zoom
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Title: Alternate structures in RNA
Speaker: Dr. Victoria D’Souza
Professor
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Harvard University
Host: Owen Pornillos
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Zoom
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Pushing the Cellular Envelope: Towards Native Membrane Structural Biology
Speaker: Lindsay Baker, PhD
Senior Postdoctoral Research Scientist
Oxford Particle Imaging Centre
University of Oxford
Host: Dr. Jochen Zimmer
Time: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location: Pinn Hall, Cell Biology Conference Room 3rd floor
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Molecular Mechanisms of Membrane Remodeling Machines
Speaker: Anna Sundborger-Lunna, PhD
Assistant Professor of Cryo-EM and Molecular Cell Biology
The Hormel Institute – University of Minnesota
Mayo Clinic, Austin, MN
Host: Dr. Jochen Zimmer
Time: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location: Pinn Hall, 3016
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Enzyme Toolkit for Selective Enrichment & Analysis of Mucin-Domain Glycoproteins
Speaker: Stacy A. Malaker, PhD
NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, Bertozzi Laboratory
Stanford University Department of Chemistry
Stanford, California
Host: Dr. Jochen Zimmer
Time: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location: Snyder, 314
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RNA Regulation at the Single Molecule Level: From Nuclear Organization to Molecular Activity
Speaker: Fangyuan Ding, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Division of Biology and Biological Engineering
California Institute of Technology
Pasedna, California
Host: Dr. Jochen Zimmer
Time: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location: Pinn Hall, 3016
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The Architecture of Ubiquitin Signaling
Speaker: Kirby Swatek, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Molecular Machines & Signaling
Max Planck Institute of Biochemstry
Munich, Germany
Host: Dr. Jochen Zimmer
Time: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location: Pinn Hall, 3016
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The cryo-EM structure of human CST reveals a two-megadalton decameric assembly bound to telomeric DNA
Speaker: Ci Ji Lim, PhD
NIH Postdoctoral Fellow
Cech Lab
University of Colorado Boulder
Boulder, CO
Host: Dr. Jochen Zimmer
Time: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location: Snyder, 314
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Structures and gating mechanism of the redox-sensing human TRPM2 channel
Speaker: Longfei Wang, PhD
Instructor
Biological Chemistry & Molecular Pharmacology
Harvard Catalyst, Harvard University
Boston, MA
Host: Dr. Jochen Zimmer
Time: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location: PINN Hall, 3016
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Development of Protein and RNA Technologies for Advancing Optical Imaging and Proteomics Applications
Speaker: Jiahui (Chris) Wu, PhD
Postdoctoral Associate in Pharmacology
Weill Cornell Medical College
Cornell University, New York
Host: Dr. Jochen Zimmer
Time: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location: Snyder, 314
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Systems-scale approaches to study the biological significance of protein isoforms
Speaker: Gloria Shenkyman, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Harvard Medical School, Department of Genetics
Boston, MA
Host: Dr. Jochen Zimmer
Time: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location: Pinn Hall, 3016
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The Structural Basis of Mitochondrial Coenzyme Q Biosynthesis
Speaker: Halil Aydin, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
University of California, San Francisco, CA
Host: Dr. Jochen Zimmer
Time: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location: Snyder, 314
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Designing Programmable Biosensors
Elizabeth Libby, PhD
Department Fellow
Department of Systems Biology (INT)
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Host: Dr. Jochen Zimmer
Time: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location: Snyder, 314
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Structural and Functional Studies on the Signaling Scaffold P-Rex1, a Metastatic Factor, as a Paradigm for Understanding RhoGEF Regulation
Jennifer Cash, PhD
Joint Research Investigator
Department of Biological Chemistry
Life Sciences Institute
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Host: Dr. Jochen Zimmer
Time: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location: Pinn Hall, 3016
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Infectious diseases and drug resistance: Insights from structural biology
Speaker: Filippo Mancia, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Co-Director Graduate Education
Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics
Columbia University, New York, NY
Host: Dr. Peter Kasson
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: PINN Hall, 3016
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Structure of ion channels in membranes by cryo-EM
Speaker: Dr. Misha Kudryashev
Group Leader
Max Planck Institute of Biophysics
Host: Dr. Jochen Zimmer
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom-contact Jennifer for link to meeting
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Aurelia Honerkamp-Smith
Snyder 314
Host: Dr. Peter Kasson
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Snyder 314
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Captain Scott Tingle
Captain Scott Tingle
Astronaut
NASA
Seminar Title: International Space Station Expeditions 54/55 Mission Overview
Host: Dr. Lukas Tamm
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Pinn Hall Auditorium
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Heather Ferris
Heather Ferris
Assistant Professor
Endocrinology and Metabolism
University of Virginia
Seminar Title: Cholesterol as a mediator of cognitive function in diabetes
Host: Dr. Huiwang Ai
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Somlyo Conference Room (Pinn 4025)
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Alan Stewart
Alan Stewart
Senior Lecturer
Medical & Biological Sciences
University of St. Andrews
Seminar Title: Allosteric regulation of plasma zinc dynamics by free fatty acids: A potential driver of cardiovascular complications in disease states
Host: Dr. Wladek Minor
Time: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location: Somlyo Conference Room, Pinn Hall 4025
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Adam Boulton Thesis Defense
Adam Boulton
Grad Student
Thesis Defense: RNA Binding by Epigenetic Reader AF9
is Essential for Hematopoiesis
Host: Dr. John Bushweller
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location: Somlyo Conference Room, Pinn Hall 4025
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Gregory Melikian
Gregory Melikian
Professor
Pediatrics, Infectious Diseases
Emory University
Seminar Title: TBD
Host: Dr. Lukas Tamm
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Snyder 314
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Bianxiao Cui
Bianxiao Cui, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Chemistry
Stanford University
Title: The role of membrane curvature at the nano-bio interface
Host: Peter Kasson
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Snyder 314
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Dinesh Christendat, University of Toronto Seminar Title: An Unusual Convergence: The Evolution and Diversity of Proteins in Specialized Metabolism
Pinn 4025
Host: Dr. Wladek Minor
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Pinn Hall 4025
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Dinesh Christendat, PhD An Unusual Convergence: The Evolution and Diversity of Proteins in Specialized Metabolism
Dinesh Christendat, PhD
Associate Professor, Cell & Systems Biology
University of Toronto
“An Unusual Convergence: The Evolution and Diversity of Proteins in Specialized Metabolism”
Host: Dr. Wladek Minor
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Pinn 4025
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Aurelia Honerkamp-Smith
Snyder 314
Host: Dr. Peter Kasson
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Snyder 314
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Aurelia Honerkamp-Smith, PhD “Using flow to investigate membranes”
Aurelia Honerkamp-Smith, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Physics
Lehigh University
“Using flow to investigate membranes”
Host: Dr. Peter Kasson
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Snyder 314
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Bradley D. Smith Notre Dame Seminar Title: TBD
Pinn 4025
Host: Huiwang Ai, Center for Membrane & Cell Physiology
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Pinn Hall 4025
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Title: Near-Infrared Molecular Probes for In Vivo Imaging and Photothermal Therapy
Bradley D. Smith, PhD
Emil T. Hofman Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Director Notre Dame Integrated Imaging Faculty
Dept Chemistry & Biochemistry
University of Notre Dame
Seminar Title: Near-Infrared Molecular Probes for In Vivo Imaging and Photothermal Therapy
Host: Huiwang Ai, Center for Membrane & Cell Physiology
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Pinn 4025
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Dr. Danny Chou University of Utah Seminar Title: TBD
Pinn 4025
Host: Huiwang Ai, Center for Membrane & Cell Physiology
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Pinn Hall 4025
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Dr. Danny Chou
Danny Hung-Chieh Chou, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Biochemistry
University of Utah
Seminar Title: Toward Optimal Insulin Action and Performance for People with Diabetes
Host: Huiwang Ai, Center for Membrane & Cell Physiology
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Pinn 4025
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Graduate Visiting Students Symposium – Poster Display
Graduate Visiting Students Symposium
Poster Display
Host:Dr. Zygmunt Derewenda
Time: 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Location: Pinn Hall Conference Center Meeting Room 1
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Graduate Visiting Students Symposium – Oral Presentations
Graduate Visiting Students Symposium
Oral Presentations
Host: Dr. Zygmunt Derewenda
Time: 8:30 AM - 1:30 PM
Location: Pinn Hall Conference Center Auditorium
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