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Seminar Series
Spring 2009Department of Physiology and Biophysics Seminar Series
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DATE
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SPEAKER
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TITLE & HOST
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01/13/09
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Monte Krieger, Ph.D. Dept. of Biology MIT |
Charting the Fate of the 'Good Cholesterol' - Characterization of the HDL receptor SR-BI and its influence on Coronary Heart Disease |
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01/20/09
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Dawn Braseamle, Ph.D. Dept. of Nutritional Sciences Rutgers University |
Lipid Droplet-Associated Proteins Control Triacylglycerol Metabolism |
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02/03/09
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Mary Roberts, Ph.D. Merkert Chemistry Center Boston College |
Akt and PTEN: the yin and yang of signaling |
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02/10/09
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Jane Kondev, Ph.D. Dept. of Physics Brandeis Univ. |
Geography of bacterial chromosomes |
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02/17/09
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Sunney Xiaoliang Xie, Ph.D. Dept. of Chemistry & Chem. Biol. Harvard Univ. |
Holding Life Processes up to the Light, at the Single-Molecule Level |
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2/24/09
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Lila Geirasch, Ph.D. Dept. of Biochem & Mol Biol, Dept of Chem U Mass, Amherst |
(Host: Dr. James McKnight) |
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FRIDAY
02/27/09 |
Alexey Ladokhin, Ph.D. Dept. Biochem. & Mol. Biol. Kansas Univ. Medical Center |
Thermodynamics of pH-Triggered Membrane Protein Insertion: what can we learn about membrane protein stability? (Host: Dr. Olga Gursky) |
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03/10/09
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Adam Lerner, Ph.D. Dept. Medicine & Pathology Director, Hematology Training Pgm Boston Univ. School of Medicine |
Mechanistic studies of the anti-estrogen resistance gene AND-34/BCAR3 |
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03/17/09
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Lee Makowski, Ph.D. Div. of Biological Sciences Argonne National Lab |
Linking the Protein Ensemble to Function |
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03/31/09
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John Clardy, Ph.D. Department of Biological Chemistry & Molecular Pharmacology Harvard Medical School |
What We Can Learn from Bugs |
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04/07/09
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Stanley Hazen, Ph.D. Dept. of Mol. Med. Cleveland Clinic, Lerner College of Medicine Case Western Reserve Univ. |
Myloperoxidase, HDL and PON1 - functional partners in atherosclerosis (Host: Dr. Donald M. Small) |
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FRIDAY
04/17/09 9a-4:15p Rm R115 |
STUDENT SEMINAR DAY | Graduate Student Talks |
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FRIDAY
04/24/09 9a-4:15p Rm R115 |
STUDENT SEMINAR DAY | Graduate Student Talks |
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04/28/09
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Dr. Mason W. Freeman Lipid Metabolism Unit Dept. of Medicine Mass General Hospital / Harvard Medical School |
ABCA Transporters: Lipid Movers and Shakers (Host: Dr. David Atkinson) |
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05/05/09
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Dr. Jim Delikatny Assistant Director, Molecular Imaging Laboratory Research Associate Professor, Dept. of Radiology University of Pennsylvania |
Probing lipid metabolism non-invasively with MR and optical imaging (Host: Dr. David Atkinson) |
Fall 2008
Department of Physiology and Biophysics Seminar Series
1:00-2:20pm, room L301
Last update 12/04/2008
You may contact Dr. Haya Herscovitz (haya@bu.edu), the fall seminar coordinator, with any questions.
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DATE
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SPEAKER
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TITLE & HOST
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9/2/08
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Christopher Gabel, PhD Harvard University, Dept. Of Physics Dept. of Physiology & Biophysics |
"The Study of Neural Regeneration in C. Elegans Using Femtosecond Laser Surgery” (Host: Dr. Andy Zoeller) |
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9/9/08
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Alexei Kurakin, PhD Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital Medical Center |
“Adaptice plasticity in protein interactions and cellular organization” (Host: Dr. Andy Zoeller) |
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9/19/08
Friday |
Hanna Rapaport, PhD Ben-Gurion University of Negev Dept. Biotechnology Engineering |
“Structure of Amphiphilic Peptides at Interfaces” (Host: Dr. Donald M. Small) |
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9/23/08
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Rajesh Ramachandran, PhD The Scripps Research Institute Dept. Cell Biology - NEW DATE! |
Fluorescence-detected dynamics of dynamin-membrane interactions in clathrin-mediated endocytosis (Host: Dr. Andy Zoeller) |
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10/07/08
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Kenneth Walsh, PhD, BU School of Medicine, Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute |
TBA (Host: Dr. William Lehman) |
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10/21/08
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Laura Liscum, PhD Tufts School of Medicine, Dept. Physiology |
TBA (Host: Haya Herscovitz and Barbara Schrieber) |
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10/28/08
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Richard Cohen, PhD BU School of Medicine, Vascular Biology |
Oxidative post-translational modification of proteins and cellular function (Host: Dr. Haya Herscovitz) |
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11/04/08
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Matt Lang,Ph.D. MIT |
Advances in Single Molecule Biophysics, Studies of Actin Machinery and the Force Generation Mechanism of Kinesin (Host: Dr. Haya Herscovitz and Michael Greenberg) |
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12/02/08
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Alan Engelman, Ph.D. Dept. of Pathology Harvard Medical School |
Integrase-Binding Co-factors and HIV-1 Infection |
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12/09/08
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Charles Brenner, Ph.D. Depts. of Genetics & Biochemistry & the Norris Cotton Cancer Center Dartmouth Medical School |
TBA |
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12/16/08
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Lila Geirasch, Ph.D. Dept. of Biochem & Mol Biol, Dept of Chem U Mass, Amherst |
POSTPONED due to weather (Host: Dr. James McKnight) |
Spring 2008
Department of Physiology and Biophysics Seminar Series
1:00-2:20pm, room L301
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DATE
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SPEAKER
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TITLE & HOST
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1/15/08
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Dr. Karen Allen Boston University School of Medicine Dept. of Physiology & Biophysics |
"Structural Enzymology” |
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1/22/08
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Dr. Biju Pillai Boston University School of Medicine Dept. of Physiology & Biophysics |
“How fast do very long chain saturated fatty acids flip and flop?” (Host: Hamilton lab) |
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1/29/08
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Dr. Krishna Murthy University of Alabama at Birmingham |
“Structure of ApoA-1” (Hosts: D. Atkinson, D. Small and G. Shipley) |
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2/12/08
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Dr. Jonathan Goldberg Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York |
“Structure and Function of COPII Transport Vesicles” (Hosts: G. Shipley, C. Akey) |
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2/26/08
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Dr. M. Elizabeth Stroupe Brandeis University |
“Structural studies of splicing complexes” (Host: E. Bullitt) |
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3/04/08
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Dr. Barry Honig Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Columbia University, New York |
“Relating Cellular to Molecular Specificity” (Hosts: D. Small/D. Atkinson) |
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3/11/08
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Dr. David Ron Skirball Institute, New York University Medical Center |
“Physiological considerations in unfolded protein responses” (Host: H. Herscovitz) |
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3/18/08
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Dr. Rex F. Pratt, Ph.D. Professor of Biochemistry and Beach Professor of Chemistry Wesleyan University |
“Enzyme mechanisms” (Host: K. Allen) |
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3/25/08
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Hwai-Chen Guo, Ph.D. BUSM |
Glycosylasparaginase cis- to trans-hydrolysis of amide bonds |
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4/08/08
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Dr. Martin Karplus Harvard University, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology |
“How Proteins Work: Insights from Simulations” (Host: B. Lehman) |
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4/18/08
& 4/25/08 |
Student Seminar Days | (Hosts: Drs. C. Akey, K. Allen) |
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4/29/08 |
Dr. Ramanujan Hegde Cell Biology and Metabolism Branch National Institute of Child Health and Human development (NIH) Bethesda, MD 20892 |
“The biosynthesis of secretory and membrane proteins” (Host: C. Akey) |
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5/06/08
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Dr. Guangwei Du SUNY, Stonybrook (NY) Center for Developmental Genetics Dept. of Pharmacology |
“Lipid signal regulation of membrane trafficking and oncogenesis” (Host: R.A. Zoeller) |
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Friday,
5/09/08 3:00pm Room L303 |
Seemantini Nadkarni, PhD Harvard Medical School Massachusetts General Hospital Wellman Center for Photomedicine |
"Optical Techniques to Evaluate Atherosclerosis: a Multi-factorial Perspective" (Host: R.A. Zoeller) |
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5/13/08
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Dr. Mary Munson UMass Medical Center |
“The Exocyst Complex: Molecular Architecture and Function in Exocytosis” (Host: CJ McKnight) |
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5/20/08
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Norman A. Mazer, M.D., PhD Boston University School of Medicine |
"A Physiologically-Based Mathematical Model of the Metabolic Clearance Rate of Testosterone" (Host: D. Atkinson) |
Fall 2007
Department of Physiology and Biophysics Seminar Series
1:00-2:20pm, room L301
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DATE
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SPEAKER
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TITLE & HOST
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9/18/07
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Dr. Nicholas R. Silvaggi Boston University School of Medicine Dept. of Physiology & Biophysics |
“Structural Insights into Inhibition of the Clostridium botulinum Neurotoxin Serotype A Light Chain” (Host: Allen lab) |
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9/25/07
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Dr. David Cane, Professor Brown University Department of Chemistry |
“Nature's Dirty Secrets” (Host: K. Allen) |
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10/09/07
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Dr. Alexey Onufriev Assistant Professor Departments of Computer Science and Physics, Virginia Tech |
“Dynamics”
(Host: B. Lehman) |
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10/16/07
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Dr. Tom Cronin University of Maryland at Baltimore County in the Department of Biology |
“Color Madness: The Evolution of Color and Polarization Vision in Mantis Shrimps” (Host: C. Cornwall) |
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10/23/07
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Dr. Jay Neitz Department of Cell Biology, Neurobiology & Anatomy Medical College of Wisconsin http://mcw.edu/cellbio/colorvision/ |
“Evolutionary endgame for the eye” or “Welcome to the wonderful world of color: gene therapy for colorblindness in a primate” (Host: C. Cornwall) |
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11/06/07
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Dr. William Bachovchin Tufts University Biochemistry Department |
“Are enzymes templates or mechanical devices?”
(Host: J. Hamilton) |
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11/13/07
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Dr. Michael Radermacher Health Science Research Facility Univ of Vermont Medical School |
“The Structure of Complex I in the Mitochondrial Respiratory Chain” (Host: C Akey) |
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11/27/07
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Preethi Chandramouli Boston University School of Medicine Dept. of Physiology & Biophysics |
“Structure of the 80S ribosome” (Host: Akey lab) |
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12/04/07
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Dr. Ernst J. Schaefer, MD Director, Cardiovascular Research & Lipid Metabolism Laboratories & Lipid and Heart Disease Prevention Program Tufts University School of Medicine Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy |
“The Metabolism of High Density Lipoprotein Particles” (Host: J. Hamilton) |
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12/18/07
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Dr. Jeff Hoch Department of Molecular, Microbial, and Structural Biology University of Connecticut Health Center http://structbio.uchc.edu/ HochLab_files/index.html |
“Folding, Stability, and Structure of Human Prolactin” (Host: CJ. McKnight) |
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