Speaker: James M. Carothers, Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington
Subject: Multi-state design of kinetically-controlled RNA aptamer ribosensors
Faculty Host: Vincent Noireaux
Thursday, April 12th 2018
Speaker: Aaron Engelhart, Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development, University of Minnesota
Subject: Hold the water! Probing nucleic acid hydration with alternative solvents
Thursday, April 19th 2018
Speaker: Ashim Rai, (postdoc in Shiv’s lab) Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, University of Minnesota
Subject: Biophysical regulation of myosin VI motility by cargo adaptor proteins
Thursday, April 26th 2018
Speaker: Gianluigi Veglia, Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology & Biophysics, University of Minnesota
Subject: Role of conformational dynamics on protein kinases function and dysfunction
Thursday, May 10th 2018
Speaker: Hyun Youk, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, TU Delft, Netherlands
Subject: Restarting life on demand: Distinguishing dormancy from death by resuming life in yeast
Faculty Host: Elias Puchner
Thursday, September 6th 2018
There will be no seminar this week.
Thursday, September 13th 2018
There will be no seminar this week.
Thursday, September 20th 2018
Speaker: Prakash Kara, Professor in the Department of Neuroscience, University of Minnesota
Subject: Determining the precision of networks in the living brain with multi-photon microscopy
PLEASE NOTE THE SEMINAR IS IN ROOM PAN 110 THIS WEEK
Thursday, September 27th 2018
Speaker: Keehun Kim, graduate student in Sivaraj Sivaramakrishnan’s lab, Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development, University of Minnesota
Subject: A cell-free FRET-based assay for profiling the intrinsic efficacy of GPCR ligands
Thursday, October 4th 2018
Speaker: Jon Garamella, graduate student in Vincent Noireaux’s lab, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota
Subject: Synthetic cell prototyping using a cell-free transcription-translation system (TXTL)
Thursday, October 11th 2018
Speaker: Dushyant Mehra, graduate student in the biomedical engineering department at the Mayo Clinic
Subject: Mapping and Manipulation of DNA Architecture in Vivo
Thursday, October 18th 2018
Speaker: Terry Hwa, Department of Physics, University of California at San Diego Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
(Note: Terry Hwa will not give a Biophysics Seminar but just a colloquium)
Thursday, October 25th 2018
Speaker: Oleg Krichevsky, Molecular Biophysics Lab, Ben-Gurion University
Subject: T cell communication through cytokines follows a simple sink-diffusion model
Faculty Host: Elias Puchner
Thursday, November 1st 2018
Speaker: Douglas G. Mashek, Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics and Department of Medicine, Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Minnesota
Subject: The fascinating world of lipid droplet biology
Thursday, November 8th 2018
Speaker: Isaac Angert, graduate student in Jochen Mueller’s lab, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota
Subject: Ultra-sensitive detection of plasma membrane binding and nanometer lengths with dual-color fluorescence z-scan in live cells
Thursday, November 15th 2018
Speaker: John Marko, Northwestern University
Subject: Single-molecule studies of protein-DNA interactions
Thursday, November 29th 2018
Speaker: Santosh Adhikari, graduate student in Elias Puchner's lab, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota
Subject: Quantitative Super-resolution imaging and tracking of endosomes, lipid droplets and fatty acids in living cells
Thursday, December 6th 2018
Speaker: Steven Vogel, NIH/NIAAA
Subject: VenusA206 dimers behave coherently at room temperature
Thursday, December 13th 2018
There will be no seminar this week.
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