Fall 2015
The biophysics/soft matter seminars will be held Wednesdays at 12:30 pm in P8445.2 unless otherwise stated.
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 4 (Friday, 10:30 am) | Gautam Menon (Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India) | |
| Oct 5 (Monday, 12:30 pm) | Helmut Brand (Physics, Bayreuth) | Influence of noise on dissipative solitons and their interaction |
| Oct 07 | Braden Brinkman (Applied Math, Washington) | Optimal encoding in neural circuits depends markedly on where noise originates |
| Oct 14 | David Vocadlo (Chemistry, SFU) | Chemical biology of O-GlcNAc: Enzyme function to roles in cellular physiology and disease |
| Oct 21 | Tuba Altindal (Physics, SFU) | Using optical tweezers to assess the role of inter-protein interactions in collagen self-assembly |
| Oct 28 | Albert Pan (Chemistry and Biology, DE Shaw) | Using long-timescale molecular dynamics simulations to benchmark enhanced sampling methods |
| Nov 4 | William Cannon (Systems Biology, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) | |
| Nov 18 | Martin Zuckermann (Physics, SFU) | Synthetic protein nanomotors – molecular machines that mimic nature |
| Nov 25 | Sarah L. Keller (Chemistry and Physics, University of Washington) | Short stories in membrane biophysics of how complex behavior arises from minimal components |
| Dec 02 | Byron Gates (Chemistry, SFU) |