| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| *January 9 | Eldon Emberly SFU Physics |
In vitro spatial patterning of genes |
| January 16 | Martin Howard Imperial College |
Finding the Centre Reliably: Robust Pattern of Developmental Gene Expression |
| January 26 | Eric Cytrynbaum UBC Math |
A novel "volume-sensing" mechanism for the spatial- organization of the cytoskeleton |
| January 30 | Joerg Rottler UBC Physics |
TBA |
| February 6 | Peter Unrau SFU MBB |
Catalytic and evolutionary strategies exploited by RNA |
| February 13 | Ping Ao U Washington |
Modeling the Stability and Robustness of Phage Lambda Genetic Switch |
| February 27 | Sarah Veatch UBC |
Liquid immiscibility in model bilayer membranes: phase diagrams, critical phenomena, and implications for lipid rafts |
| March 6 | Max Donelan SFU Kinesiology |
POSTPONED |
| March 20 | Andre Marziali UBC Physics |
POSTPONED |
| March 27 | Tom Butler U Washington |
Inferring RNA orientation during translocation through a biological nanopore |
| April 3 | Steve Plotkin UBC Physics |
How does a protein fold? The effects of structure and many body interactions. |
| April 4 2:30PM SSB8114 |
Ole G. Mouritsen U. S. Denmark |
Physics of the Activation of Interfacial Enzymes |
Fall 2005
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| September 27 | Jeff Gore UC Berkeley |
Single molecule studies of DNA twist mechanics and gyrase mechanochemistry (abstract) |
| October 4 | Raibatak Das UBC Mathematics |
An automated image cross-correlation analysis to quantify the real-time dynamics of mast cell signalling (abstract) |
| October 14 | The Biophysics Group |
The Biophysics Bash! Follow link for times and abstracts! |
| October 18 | Jean Francois Ganghoffer | Modelling of the behaviour of cell-wall interface during the rolling of a single cell: a probabilistic approach (abstract) |
| October 20 2:00PM SSB8114 |
Pietro Cicuta Cambridge |
Unusual polymer dynamics in 2D (abstract) |
| October 25 | Teodor Burghelea UBC Mathematics |
Chaotic flow and mixing with a dilute polymer solution in a regime of elastic turbulence (abstract) |
| November 8 | Ben Smith UBC Physics |
Viscoelastic behaviour of living cells investigated with atomic force microscopy (abstract) |
| November 15 | Carl Hansen UBC Physics |
Microfluidic Tools for Structural Biology (abstract) |
| November 29 | Bernhard Andreaus NRC |
Modeling kinetic processes on nanoparticle electrocatalysts |
| December 22 | Christian Code U Helsinki |
Induction of Amyloid-like Fibers by Acidic Phospholipids |
Summer 2005
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| *May 10 | Nancy Forde, SFU |
A Brownian motor mechanism of translocation and strand separation by hepatitis C virus helicase (link) |
| *May 17 | Martin Zuckermann, SFU |
Coupling of Two Motor Proteins: a New Motor Can Move Faster (link) |
| *May 25 | Connie Roth, SFU |
FRET measurements of cell-traction forces and nano-scale clustering of adhesion ligands varied by substrate stiffness (link) |
| *June 1 | Eldon Emberly, SFU |
Reconstitution of Circadian Oscillation of Cyanobacterial KaiC Phosphorylation in Vitro (link) |
| *June 2 | Erin Craig, U of Oregon |
Active hair-bundle motility harnesses noise to operate near an optimum of mechanosensitivity (link) |
| *June 29 | Elana Brief, SFU |
Molecular dynamics of cyclically contracting insect flight muscle in vivo (link) |
| *July 6 | Edgar Young, SFU |
Activation of pausing F1 motor by external force (link) |
| *July 13 | Philip Johnson, SFU |
A Self-Organized Vortex Array of Hydrodynamically Entrained Sperm Cells (link) |
| *July 20 | Vahid Shahrezaei, SFU |
Uncovering the overlapping community structure of complex networks in nature and society (link) |
| *July 27 | Michelle Lee, SFU |
Gradient of Rigidity in the Lamellipodia of Migrating Cells Revealed by Atomic Force Microscopy (link) |
| *August 3 | John Bechhoefer, SFU |
Far-field optical microscopy at resolutions as good as 16 nm (2 papers: link1, link2) |
| *August 10 | David Lee, SFU |
Mixed self-assembled monolayer-based surface plasmon immunosensor for detection of E. coli O157:H7 (link) |
| *August 17 | Yi Deng, SFU |
Optimality and evolutionary tuning of the expression level of a protein (link) |
| *August 24 | Matthew Downton, SFU |
DNA twisting flexibility and the formation of sharply looped protein-DNA complexes (link) |
| August 31 | Helmut Brand, U of Bayreuth (Germany) | Magnetic Gels: a New Class of Materials |