Fall 2008

The biophysics seminars in the fall will be held on Mondays at 3:30 pm in K8666, Kinesiology Building (School of Communication section) unless otherwise stated.

Date	Speaker	Topic
Sept. 3rd Wed. @ 1:30pm	Keir C. Neuman Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics	Enzymatic symmetry breaking: How does topoisomerase IV distinguish left from right?
Sept. 10th Wed. @ 1:30pm	Paul C. H. Li SFU Chemistry	Microfluidic nucleic acid microarrays achieved using centrifugal pumping within spiral microchannels
Sept. 22nd	Meeko M. K. Oishi UBC Electrical and Computer Engineering	Control-based modeling and classification of tracking performance in Parkinson's disease
Sept. 29th	Chun Y. Seow UBC Pathology and Laboratory Medicine	Plasticity of Cell Structure and Function in Smooth Muscle
Oct. 6th	Matthew Wiggin UBC Physics	Rescheduled; Oct. 27th
Oct. 20th	Duk-Su Koh Univ. of Washington	Information processing in endocrine and exocrine cells
Oct. 27th	Matthew Wiggin UBC Physics	Single Molecule Force Spectroscopy Using Nanopores
Nov. 3rd	Hongbin Li UBC Chemistry	Protein mechanics and engineering at the single molecule level
Nov. 10th	Eric Cytrynbaum UBC Mathematics	Force generation in bacterial cell division
Nov. 17th	Dennis Hore University of Victoria Chemistry	Surface-Sensitive Techniques for Studying Biomolecules at the Solid-Solution Interface
Nov. 24th	Juan Sabin Fernandez SFU Physics	Stability and aggregation on liposomes
Dec. 1st	Adrienne Fairhall Univ. of Washington	The biophysics of adaptive neural coding

Summer 2008

It's summer time again! We will have our biophysics journal club talks on Wednesdays at 12:30 pm in P8445B unless otherwise stated. Come and enjoy.

Date	Speaker	Topic
May 14th	Astrid van der Horst	Following translation by single ribosomes one codon at a time (text)
May 21st	John Bechhoefer	Out-of-Equilibrium Dynamics of Gene Expression and the Jarzynski Equality (text)
May 28th	Eldon Emberly	Mechanism of shape determination in motile cells
June 4th	Benjamin Downing	Surface Tension Transport of Prey by Feeding Shorebirds: The Capillary Ratchet (text)
June 11th	Kevin Hewitt	In vivo tumor targeting and spectroscopic detection with surface-enhanced Raman nanoparticle tags (text)
June 18th	Edgar Young	A hierarchy of timescales in protein dynamics is linked to enzyme catalysis (text)
June 25th	Arnold Sikkema	Interaction ruling animal collective behavior depends on topological rather than metric distance: Evidence from a field study (text)
July 2nd		Rescheduled to Aug. 20th
July 9th	Laleh Samii	Circulation and long term fate of functionalized, biocompatible single walled carbon nanotubes in mice probed by Raman spectroscopy (text)
July 16th	Mani Hamidi	Noisy information processing through transcriptional regulation
July 23rd	Sherry Leung	Critical Fluctuations in Plasma Membrane Vesicles (text)
July 30th	Sara Sadeghi	Stochastic switching as a survival strategy in fluctuating environments (text)
Aug. 6th	Dave Boal	Positive feedback sharpens the anaphase switch, Positive feedback of G1 cyclins ensures coherent cell cycle entry, and On the cell cycle and its switches (text)
Aug. 11th 11:30 am	Somdatta Sinha CCMB India	Special seminar: Effect of delayed reactions: a gene circuit analysis
Aug. 13th	Scott Yang	Metabolic gene regulation in a dynamically changing environment (text)
Aug. 20th	Chang Min Kim	All optical approach for probing Microscopic flows in living embryos

Spring 2008

The biophysics seminars in the spring will continue to be held on Thursdays at 11:30 am in P8445B unless otherwise stated.

Date	Speaker	Topic
Jan. 10th	Peter Tieleman U Calgary	Computer simulations of biological membranes
Jan. 19th Saturday	Frontiers in Biophysics: Forum 2008
Jan. 24th 12:30 pm	An-Chang Shi McMaster Univ.	Confined Self-Assembly of Block Copolymers
Jan. 31st	Pik-Yin Lai NCU Taiwan	Synchronized Bursting and Growth of cultured neuronal network: experiments & model
Feb. 14th	Suzana Kovacic SFU Physics	Adventures in Cell Signalling: Exploring the mechanisms of G Protein Coupled Receptors and GTPases
Feb. 21st 12:30 pm	Carl Michal UBC Physics	Studying Nature's materials with solid-state NMR
Feb. 28th	Erika Plettner SFU Chemistry	Structure and function of insect odorant-binding proteins
March 6th	Charles Asbury Univ of Washington	How are chromosomes separated during cell division?
March 13th	Sandy Rutherford SFU IRMACS	Chaotic Behaviour in SIR Models of Multistrain Diseases
March 20th	Peter Borowski UBC Math	A polymer model for the oscillations of the Min proteins in E.coli
March 27th	Leah Edelstein-Keshet UBC Math	Modeling properties of the cell motility signaling pathways
April 3rd	Keng Chou UBC Chemistry	Stimulated Emission Depletion Two-photon Fluorescence Microscopy