CORNELL
BIOPHYSICS COLLOQUIA
Fall
2008
Unless
otherwise indicated, Biophysics colloquia start at 4:30 p.m., Wednesdays
in 700 Clark Hall. Refreshments at 4:15.
Biophysics Colloquia Fall 2008 Chair:
Watt W. Webb
Fall 2008 Theme: Illuminating the Molecular Biophysics of Life
Dates/Speakers: (click on date for seminar information, or scroll down)
September 3, Tobias Baumgart, University of Pennsylvania
September 10, Lihong Wang, Washington University in St. Louis
September 12, Sunney Xie, Harvard University
September 17, Eric Siggia, Rockefeller University and Cornell University
September 24, No Colloquium
October 1, Douglas Scherr, Weill Cornell Medical College
October 8, Chris Xu, Cornell University
October 15, No Colloquium, Fall Break
October 22, Canceled
October 29,Canceled
November 5, Ahmed Heikal, Pennsylvania State University
November 12, Joachim Frank, Columbia University
November 19, Cynthia Wolberger, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
November 26, No Colloquium, Thanksgiving Week
December 3, Kerry Bloom, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
September 3, 2008
Tobias Baumgart
Assistant Professor, Physical and Biological Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania
Website
Title: Biophysical basis of biological membrane organization: protein and lipid sorting in composition and curvature gradients
Host: Watt W. Webb, 255-3331
September 10, 2008
Lihong Wang
Gene K. Beare Distinguished Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis
Website
Title: Photoacoustic tomography: High-resolution imaging of optical contrast in vivo at new depths
Host: Chris Xu, 255-1460
September 12, 2008, Note Special Date
Sunney Xie
Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University
Website
Title: Nonlinear Vibrational Microscopy: Chemical Imaging for Biology and Medicine
Host: Peng Chen, 254-8533
September 17, 2008
Eric Siggia
Professor, Center for Studies in Physics and Biology,
The Rockefeller University; Adjunct Professor of Physics, Cornell University
Website
Title: Phase locking the cell cycle in budding yeast
Host: Michelle Wang, 255-6414
September 24, 2008
No Colloquium
October 1, 2008
Douglas S. Scherr, MD
Associate Professor of Urology, The Ronald Stanton Clinical Scholar in Urology, Associate Attending Urologist,
Clinical Director, Urologic Oncology, Weill Cornell Medical College
Website
Title:Changing the paradigm of Human Cancer Diagnostics
Host: Watt Webb, 255-3331
October 8, 2008
Chris Xu
Associate Professor of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell
University
Website
Title: Technology development for deep tissue optical imaging
Host:
Jerry Feigenson, 255-4744
October 15, 2008
No Colloquium, Fall Break
October 29, 2008
Harel Weinstein
Canceled
November 5, 2008
Ahmed Heikal
Associate Professor of Bioengineering, Pennsylvania State University
Website
Title: Towards quantitative biochemistry of energy metabolism and redox state of living cells
Host: Watt Webb, 255-3331
November 12, 2008
Joachim Frank
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, and Department of Biology, Columbia University
Website
Title: The Ribosome at Work
Host: Warren Zipfel, 255-0663
November 19, 2008
Cynthia Wolberger
Professor, HHMI, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Website
Title: Regulation by lysine modification: Mechanisms of Sir2 deacetylation and
polyubiquitin chain assembly
Host: Ailong Ke, 255-3945
November 26, 2008
No Colloquium, Thanksgiving Week
December 3, 2008
Kerry Bloom
Thad L. Beyle Distinguished Professor, Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Website
Title: Springs and Struts in the Mitotic Spindle
Host: MIchelle Wang, 255-6414
If you have any questions, please contact colloquium administrator Mark
Williams at drbio@cornell.edu,
255-3773.
The Cornell Biophysics Colloquium is supported by NIH-NIBIB supported
Developmental Resource for Biophysical Imaging Opto-Electronics (DRBIO);
and by generous contributions from Cornell
departments and units: Nanobiotechnology Center, Dept of Chemistry & Chemical
Biology, School of Applied & Engineering Physics, Dept of Biomedical Science, Physics Dept, Dept of Molecular
Biology and Genetics, Biomedical Engineering Program, CHESS, MacCHESS,
Dept of Molecular Medicine, Vice Provost for Life Sciences, Vice Provost
for Research, College of
Engineering, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, and the College
of Veterinary Medicine.
Recent Past Seminars:
Spring 2008, Fall 2007, Spring 2007, Fall
2006,
Spring 2006, Fall
2005, Spring
2005, Fall
2004, Spring
2004, Fall
2003, Spring
2003
Cornell
Field of Biophysics
