Fall 2007

The biophysics seminars this fall will be held on Thursdays at 12:30 pm in P8445B unless otherwise notified.

Date	Speaker	Topic
Sep. 11th 11:30 am	Chi-Ming Chen National Taiwan Normal University	Nanopore sequencing of polynucleotides assisted by a circular electric field
Oct. 4th	Didier Falconnet UBC Physics	Molecular Assembly Patterning by Lift-off at the Micro- and Nanoscale for Applications in the Biosciences
Oct. 11th	Claudiu Gradinaru Uni. of Toronto	Single Molecules Tell Many Tales
Oct. 18th		Women in Physics lunch
Oct. 25th	Astrid van der Horst SFU Physics	Probing elastin molecules and networks using holographic optical tweezers
Nov. 1st	Marinko Sarunic SFU Eng. Sci.	Biomedical Imaging With Fourier Domain Optical Coherence Tomography
Nov. 8th	TBA	TBA
Nov. 15th	Michel Gauthier	Simulation of polymer translocation through small channels: A Molecular Dynamics study and a new Monte Carlo approach
Nov. 22nd	James Taylor UBC Physics	Interrogating dynamic phenotypes using a high-throughput single cell microfluidic platform
Nov. 29th	Edgar Young SFU MBB	Complex voltage-activation of pacemaker channels

Summer 2007

The biophysics journal club talks for the summer will be in P8445B at 12:00-1:00 PM every Teusday unless otherwise noted. Bring your lunch and enjoy!

The special biophysics seminar will be in P8445B at 2:00 PM

Date	Speaker	Topic
May 15th	John Bechhoefer SFU Phyiscs	'Infotaxis' as a strategy for searching without gradients (text)
My 22nd	Eldon Emberly SFU Physics	Simulation of the mechanical unfolding of a protein
May 29th	Nancy Forde SFU Physics	Measuring the Folding Transition Time of Single RNA Molecules (text)
June 5th	Philip Johnson SFU Physics	The quantum mechanics of photosynthesis (paper1, paper2) (text)
June 12th	Arnold Sikkema TWU Physics	Phase Transitions in Systems of Self-Propelled Agents and Related Network Models
June 19th	Edgar Young SFU MBB	How astrocytes get their news (paper1, paper2) (text)
June 22th	Suckjoon Jun Harvard	Special seminar: Can entropy save bacteria?
June 26th	Michelle Lee SFU Physics	Experimental and theoretical study of mitotic spindle orientation (text)
July 3rd	Roja Zakariaee SFU Physics	Application of infrared light for in vivo neural stimulation (text)
July 10th	Yi Deng SFU Physics	Kinesin's Network of Chemomechanical Motor Cycles
July 17th	Astrid v.d. Horst SFU Physics	Antitumour drugs impede DNA uncoiling by topoisomerase I
July 24th	Katarina Petrovic SFU Physics	Stability and Nuclear Dynamics of the Bicoid Morphogen Gradient (paper1, paper2)
July 31st	Yang Li SFU Physics	Probabilistic reasoning by neurons (text)
Aug 7th	Dave Lee SFU Physics	Universal behaviour between soft materials and the living cell (text, addintional paper1, paper2)
Aug 14th	Helmut Brand Uni. Bayreuth	Polymer rheology and nonlinear transient elasticity
Aug 20th 1:30 pm	Samir Hamdan Harvard Medical School	Single-molecule view of DNA replication
Aug 21th	Shun Adachi Kyoto University	Chromosome Dynamics in Escherichia coli
Aug 28th	Eirikur Palsson SFU Biology	Two Complementary, Local Excitation, Global Inhibition Mechanisms Acting in Parallel Can Explain the Chemoattractant-Induced Regulation of PI(3,4,5)P3 Response in Dictyostelium Cells

Spring 2007

Seminars and journal club talks will be in SSB7172 at 3:30-4:30PM unless otherwise noted. Dates marked with a * are journal club talks.

Date	Speaker	Topic
January 15th	John Bechhoefer SFU	How frog embryos replicate their DNA reliably
January 22nd	Cenk Sahinalp Computer Science, SFU	taveRNA: A Combinatorial Toolkit for Predicting the Independent and Joint Structure of RNA Sequences
January 29th	Martin Sikor University of Augsburg	From microfluidics to the thermodynamics of membranes; from Augsburg to SFU
February 12th	Suzana Strauss UBC Chemistry	Rescheduled; February 26th
February 19th	Lynne Quarmby, SFU Biology	Calcium signalling and microtubule severing at the fulcrum of communication between cilia and cell cycle regulation
February 26th	Suzana Strauss UBC Chemistry	Structure Determination of Membrane Proteins by Oriented Solid State NMR
March 12th	APS/Biophysical Society Meeting recap	TBA
March 19th	Michael Silverman SFU Biology	Protein trafficking in cultured hippocampal neurons
March 26th	Max Donelan SFU Kinesiology	Why do we walk the way we do? Mechanical determinants of the metabolic cost of gait.
April 2nd	Benjamin Smith UBC physics	Using the non-linear elasticity of a phospholipid bilayer as a transducer for free energy of lipid-cholesterol interactions