Spring 2005: Talks will be in the Seminar Room SSB7172 at 12:00 pm unless otherwise noted.
| Date / Place | Speaker | Title (click here for abstracts) |
| Tuesday, January
25 |
Andy Hoffer Kinesiology , SFU |
Biophysical basis of neuroprosthetics. |
Tuesday, February 1 (2:30) |
Martin Howard |
A stochastic subcellular oscillator in bacteria |
| Tuesday, March 29 | Richard Elliott, Physics, U. of Washington |
hase Separation in Mixed Bilayers Containing Saturated
and Mono-unsaturated lipids with Cholesterol as determined from a Microscopic Model |
| Tuesday, April 5 | Eirikur Palsson Biology, SFU |
Statistical methods for gene clustering form |
| Tuesday, April 26 | Jenny Bryan Statistics & Biotechnology Lab, UBC |
Statistical methods for gene clustering from high-throughput data |
Fall 2004: Talks will be in the Seminar Room SSB7172 at 12:00 pm unless otherwise noted.
| Date / Place | Speaker | Title (click here for abstracts) |
| Tuesday, September
14 |
Jenifer Thewalt Molecular Biology/Biochemisty, SFU |
Phase coexistence in membranes determined by deuterium NMR |
| Tuesday, September
28 2:30 P.M. in SSB 7172 |
Dipankar Sen Molecular Biology/Biochemisty, SFU |
The use of light to make biosensors, switches, and self-repair kits out of DNA. |
| Tuesday, October 12 | Connie Roth Physics , SFU |
Mobility on different length scales in thin polymer Films. |
| Tuesday, October 26 | Michael Chan Physics , SFU |
Microraman spectroscoppy and Raman imaging of skin cancer. |
| Tuesday, November 9 | Pieter Cullis MBB , UBC |
Liposomes: From Membrane Biophysics to Anti-Cancer Therapeutics |
| Special Seminar |
Raghuveer Parthasarathy Chemistry , Berkeley |
Protein patterns at inter-membrane junctions. |
Tuesday, November
23 |
Eldon Emberley Physics , SFU |
The building blocks of biological networks |
Summer 2004: Talks will be in the Physics Seminar Room P8445b at 4:00 pm unless otherwise noted.
| Date / Place | Speaker | Title (click here for abstracts) |
| Wed, May 5 |
Royce Zia Virginia Tech |
Statistical Properties in Bit-String Models of Population Dynamics |
| Wed, May 19 |
Matthew Downton SFU |
Vibrations of F1-ATPase. |
| Wed, Jun 02 |
Peter Williams Acadia |
TBA |
| Wed, Jun 09 | Ole Mouritsen Center for Biomembrane Physics, University of Southern Denmark |
Lipids do influence protein function! - The hydrophobic matching hypothesis revisited |
| Wed, Jun 30 | Suckjoon JUN |
Self-Assembly of the Ionic Peptide EAK16: the effect of charge distributions on self-assembly |
| Wed, July 14 | Terry Chillcott UNSW Biophysics |
Suspended Bilayers |
| Wed, July 28 | Laurent Rubatat Physics, SFU |
Structural studies of Nafion |
Spring 2004: We have rather irregular schedule this semester -- details here.
| Date / Place | Speaker | Title (abstracts here) |
| Monday, January
26 @ 2:30 PM in SSB7172 |
Anand Yethiraj University of British Columbia |
Controlling Self Assembly in Colloids: From crystallization
and melting to the design of novel photonic materials. |
| Wed, February 11
@ 11:30 AM in SSB7172 |
Prof. Paavo Kinnunen Dep. of Biochemistry Univ of Helsinki, Finland |
The Biophysical Basis of Sphingomyelin-Cholesterol Interactions in Biomembranes Note: Professor Kinnunen is a well-known biophysicist
with multiple interests in membrane structure and fuction. His
present interests incude: 'Interactions of Antimicrobial
Peptides with Model Biomembranes' and 'Ceramide in Apoptosis:
Possible Biophysical Foundations of its Mechanisms of Action'. |
| Monday, February 16 @ 2:30 P.M. in SSB 7172 |
Vincent Noireaux Libchaber lab. The Rockefeller University, New York. |
From in vitro genetic circuits to an artificial cell |
| Monday, February
23 @ 2:30 P.M. in SSB 7172 |
Nancy Forde Bustamante lab. UC Berkeley |
Using Laser Tweezers to Study Real-Time Dynamics of Single Biological Molecules |
| Monday, March
1 @ 2:30 P.M. in SSB 7172 |
Rebecca Christianson |
"Binary Colloidal Mxitures" |
| Tuesday, March
16 @ 2 PM in C9000 |
Martin Howard Imperial College, London |
Subcellular protein localization in bacteria: diverse mechanisms for precise positional targeting |
| Monday, March
29 @ 2:30 PM in SSB7172 |
Richard Epand |
"Protein-induced formation of membrane domains" |
| Tuesday, March
30 @ 2 PM in C9000 |
William E. Brownell Baylor College of Medicine Houston, Texas |
The Piezoelectric Outer Hair Cell: Electro-mechanical Coupling in Membranes |