Summer 2010
The biophysics seminars will be held on Mondays at 3:30 pm in P8445.2 unless otherwise stated.
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| May 18th | Gautam I. Menon The Institute of Mathematical Sciences Chennai, INDIA | Stretching fluctuations and loop formation in short double-stranded DNA molecules |
| May 25th | Linda Dekker |
Self-assembly of a nanoscale DNA box with a controllable lid E. S. Andersen et al. Nature 459, 73-76 (2009) |
| June 1st | Clara Chan |
Swimming bacteria power microscopic gears A. Sokolov, M. M. Apodaca, B. A. Grzybowski and I. S. Aranson Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 107, 969-74 (2010) |
| June 8th | Saeed Saberi |
Intra- and intercellular fluctuations in Min-protein dynamics decrease with cell length E. Fischer-Friedricha, G. Meacci, J. Lutkenhaus, H. Chaté and K. Kruse Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 107, 6134-6139 (2010) |
| June 15th | Nagmeh Razaei |
Massively parallel single-molecule manipulation using centrifugal force K. Halvorsen and W. P. Wong Biophysical Journal 98, L53-L55 (2010) |
| June 22nd | Senny Foo |
Harnessing traction-mediated manipulation of the cell/matrix interface to control stem-cell fate N. Huebsch et al. Nature 9, 518–526 (2010) |
| June 29th | Marjan Shayegan |
Selective filtering of particles by the extracellular matrix: An electrostatic bandpass O. Lieleg, R. M. Baumgärtel and A. R. Bausch Biophysical Journal 97, 1569-1577 (2010) |
| July 6th | Hildur Knutsdottir |
A mathematical model of wound healing and subsequent scarring B. D. Cumming, D. L. S. McElwain and Z. Upton J. R. Soc. Interface 7, 19–34 (2010) |
| July 13th | Yonggun Jun |
Precise Characterization of the Conformation Fluctuations of Freely Diffusing DNA: Beyond Rouse and Zimm K. McHale and H. Mabuchi J. Am. Chem. Soc., 131, 17901–17907 (2009) |
| July 20th | Laleh Samii |
Bipedal Locomotion in Crawling Cells E.L. Barnhart, G.M. Allen, F. Jülicher and J.A. Theriot Biophysical Journal 98, 933-942 (2010) |
| July 27th | Sara Sadeghi |
Conformational Spread as a Mechanism for Cooperativity in the Bacterial Flagellar Switch F. Bai, R.W. Branch, D.V. Nicolau Jr et al. Science 327,685-689 (2010) |
| Aug. 3rd | Clinton Innes and Maxi Frei |
Rolling a single molecular wheel at the atomic scale L. Grill, K.H. Rieder, F. Moresco et al. Nature Nanotechnology 2, 95-98 (2007) |
| Aug. 10th | David Dvorak |
Inferring individual rules from collective behavior R. Lukemana, Y.-X. Lib and L. Edelstein-Keshet PNAS 107, 12576-12580 (2010) |
| Aug. 17th | Michael Pettigrew |
Environmentally Controlled Invasion of Cancer Cells by Engineered Bacteria J. C. Anderson, E. J. Clarke, A. P. Arkin and C. A. Voigt, c J. Mol. Biol. 355, 619–627 (2006) |