All seminars are Thursdays at 12:00 noon
Austrian Auditorium, Clinical Research Building

 

January 17
Ann Hochschild, Ph.D. (Harvard University)
Bacteria-based tools for studying prions and amyloid formation

January 24
Barbara A. Baird, Ph.D. (Cornell University)
Zooming in on spatial control of receptor mediated cellular responses

January 31
Hashim Al-Hashimi, Ph.D. (University of Michigan)
Breathing life into nucleic acid structure: Dynamics at atomic resolution

February 7
Taekjip Ha, Ph.D. (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Single molecule fluorescence force analysis of protein dynamics on single stranded DNA

February 14
Chuan He, Ph.D. (University of Chicago)
Reversible epigenetic methylation of DNA and RNA in mammalian cells

February 21
Lewis E. Kay, Ph.D. (University of Toronto)*
Seeing the invisible by solution state NMR spectroscopy

February 28
Philip A. Cole, M.D., Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins University)
Chemical approaches to sorting out cell signaling mechanisms

March 7
Spring Break

March 14
Steven G. Boxer, Ph.D. (Stanford University)
Stark realities: Quantitative measures of electrostatics and dynamics in proteins

March 21
Arshad Desai, Ph.D. (University of California, San Diego)
Fidelity in chromosome segregation

March 28
Elizabeth Vierling, Ph.D. (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Capturing denaturing proteins: Small heat shock protein structure and activity

April 4
Petra Fromme, Ph.D. (Arizona State University)
Femtosecond nanocrystallography opens a new era in structural biology

April 11
Lila Gierasch, Ph.D. (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
The allosteric mechanism of an Hsp70 molecular chaperone

April 18
Donald Hamelberg, Ph.D. (Georgia State University)*
Probing the intricate coupling between enzyme dynamics and substrate turnover during catalysis

 

For additional information, please contact Angie Young, 215-898-4639, younga@mail.med.upenn.edu