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

* Student-invited speaker

September 13
David E. Shaw, Ph.D. (D.E. Shaw Research)*
Millisecond-long molecular dynamics simulations of proteins on a special-purpose machine

September 20
This seminar has been cancelled

September 27
Martin L. Duennwald, Ph.D. (University of Western Ontario)
Protein misfolding and ageing in neurodegenerative diseases: protective and toxic mechanisms

October 4
Andrej Luptak, Ph.D. (University of California, Irvine)*
Genomic ribozymes and aptamers

October 11
James M. Berger, Ph.D. (University of California, Berkeley)
Molecular mechanisms for initiating DNA replication: unexpected connections between origin remodeling and homologous recombination

October 18
Jeremy L. England, Ph.D. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)*
Shape shifting: the statistical physics of protein conformational change

October 25
James U. Bowie, Ph.D. (University of California, Los Angeles)
How do membrane proteins fold?

November 1
This seminar has been cancelled

November 8
Cheryl Arrowsmith, Ph.D. (University of Toronto)
Discovery and application of chemical probes for epigenetic gene regulatory mechanisms

November 15
Graham C. Walker, Ph.D. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Translesion DNA polymerases: from cancer chemotherapy to bactericidal antibiotic action

November 29
Robert T. Sauer, Ph.D. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Machines of protein destruction

December 6
Tarun Kapoor, Ph.D. (Rockefeller University)
Examining mechanisms required for error-free cell division

 

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