Fall 2009

The biophysics seminars will be held on Mondays at 3:30 pm in P8445.2 unless otherwise stated.

Date	Speaker	Topic
Sept. 14th	Michael Schick Physics, Univ. of Washington	'Rafts' as mixtures of lipids and cholesterol; are we still at sea?
Sept. 21st	Astrid van der Horst Physics, SFU	Dynamic holographic optical tweezers for force measurements on biomaterials
Oct. 5th	Andrew Rutenberg, Physics, Dalhousie	Models and manipulations: Min oscillations inside an E. coli bacterium
Oct. 19th	Jay Burr SFU	Spatial discrimination with a very simple eye
Oct. 26th	Will Guest Physics, UBC	Using biophysics to understand prion protein misfolding
Nov. 2nd	Neil Cashman Neurology, UBC	Disease-specific epitopes: the future is unfolding
Nov. 9th	Dipankar Sen, MBB, SFU	DNA locomotion and DNA switching
Nov. 16th	Dan Coombs Math, UBC	What turns a T cell on?
Nov. 30th	Gerhard Blab Physics, SFU	More than just a silent partner
Dec. 7th	Kurt Haas CellPhys, UBC	In vivo imaging of neural circuit structural and functional development in the awake embryonic brain

Summer 2009

We will have our biophysics journal club talks on Tuesdays at 12:00 pm in P8445.2 unless otherwise stated.

Date	Speaker	Topic
May 5th	Eldon Emberly	Predictive behavior within microbial genetic networks Tagkopoulos I, Liu YC, Tavazoie S. Science. 2008 Jun 6;320(5881):1313-7.
May 19th	Nancy Forde	Origin of the electrophoretic force on DNA in solid-state nanopores S. van Dorp, U.F. Keyser, N.H. Dekker, C. Dekker & S.G. Lemay Nature Physics 5, 347-351 (2009)
May 26th	Astrid van der Horst	Stretching Single Talin Rod Molecules Activates Vinculin Binding Armando del Rio et al. Science 323, 638 (2009)
June 2nd	Michel Gauthier	How DNA coiling enhances target localization by proteins B. van den Broek et al. PNAS 105, 15738 (2008)
June 9th	Benjamin Downing	Spatial Regulators for Bacterial Cell Division Self-Organize into Surface Waves in Vitro M. Loose et al. Science 320, 789, (2008)
June 16th	John Bechhoefer	Memory Erasure in Small Systems Raoul Dillenschneider and Eric Lutz Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 210601 (2009)
June 23rd 12:00pm SSB8114	Arnold Sikkema	Transitions in a self-propelled-particles model with coupling of accelerations P. Szabó, M. Nagy, T. Vicsek Phys. Rev. E 79, 021908 (2009)
June 30th	Andrew Wieczorek	Single-nucleotide discrimination in immobilized DNA oligonucleotides with a biological nanopore D. Stoddart, A. J. Heron, E. Mikhailova, G. Maglia, and H. Bayley PNAS 106, 7702 (2009)
July 7th	Marjan Shayegan	Thermal (In)Stability of Type I Collagen Fibrils S. G. Gevorkian, A. E. Allahverdyan, D. S. Gevorgyan, and A. L. Simonian Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 048101 (2009)
July 14th	Arnau Farre	Müller cells are living optical fibers in the vertebrate retina K. Franze et al. PNAS 104, 8287 (2007)
July 21st	Chang Min Kim	Conductance of a Single Conjugated Polymer as a Continuous Function of Its Length L. Lafferentz, et al. Science 323, 1193 (2009)
Aug. 4th	Naghmeh Rezaei	Structural Origin of Circularly Polarized Iridescence in Jeweled Beetles V. Sharma et al. Science 325, 449 (2009)
Aug. 11th	Sherry Leung	Theory of Raft Formation by the Cross-Linking of Saturated or Unsaturated Lipids in Model Lipid Bilayers G. Garbès Putzela and M. Schick Biophysical Journal 96, 4935 (2009)

Spring 2009

The biophysics seminars will be held on Mondays at 11:30 am in P8445.2 unless otherwise stated.

Date	Speaker	Topic
Jan. 12th	Jason R. Dwyer UBC Physics	Hydrogen bonding in DNA: Ultrafast vibrational dynamics of base pairs and waters of hydration
Jan. 19th	Linda Wordeman Physiology and Biophysics Univ. of Washington	The importance of microtubule depolymerizing kinesins in cell division
Jan. 23rd 2h30pm-7pm	Keynote speaker: Dr. John Marko Northwestern University	Frontiers in Biophysics 2009 IRMACS Centre at SFU Burnaby Campus
Jan. 26th	Dan Wu Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology	Mathematical modeling of intracellular calcium oscillations
Feb. 9th	Patrick T. Martone Department of Botany, UBC	Biomechanical adaptations of articulated calcified seaweeds
March 2nd 3:30pm AQ 5037	Yaki Setty Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK	Four-dimensional realistic modeling of pancreatic organogenesis
March 10th Tuesday 11:30am P8445.2	Apichart Linhananta Lakehead University	Using hardspere to probe polymer collapse and protein folding
March 23rd	Daniel T. Chiu Univ. of Washington	Single-molecule studies of synaptic function
March 30th	Michael Greenwood UBC Physics	Pattern selection in phase transformations using the phase field model
April 29th Wednesday 10:00am P8445.2	Eric R. Dufresne Yale University, USA	1+1>2: Electrostatic forces are not always pair-wise additive