Structural Biology / Molecular Biophysics Seminar Series 2005/2006

 

For 2006/2007 Seminar Series Schedule click here.

Organized by Judith Klein-Seetharaman. For questions or comments, please contact her at judithks@cs.cmu.edu.

To schedule an appointment with a seminar speaker, please contact Janet Zambotti at zambotti@pitt.edu.


Last Talk in the 2005/2006 Series

June 8, 2006 at 11 am (Seminar Room 1018 BST3): Christian Schafmeister, University of Pittsburgh
"Sequence-based control of BIS-peptide shape"
Directions to the seminar room:
The 5th Avenue entrance to the BST3 is now open. Just turn right behind the entrance. The seminar room is on the left hand side. Other entrances: The bridge from the BST that leads to the 6th floor of the BST3. Victoria Street, parallel to 5th Ave, enter Victoria Building, take elevator to 1st floor, show ID, cross bridge to BST3, take elevator to 1st floor.


Scheduled Talks

S.No. Date & Time Venue Presenter
 1 October 13, 2005 at 11 AM S121, BST Inaugural Lecture: Ada Yonath, Weizmann Institute, Israel
Title : The spectacular ribosomal architecture: from peptide bond formation to protein folding via antibiotics selectivity and resistance
 2 October 20, 2005 at 11 AM Auditorium 1018 BST3 James Conway, University of Pittsburgh
Title : Cryo-electron microscopy at Pitt: is herpesvirus a bacteriophage?
 3 October 27, 2005 at 11 AM Auditorium 1018 BST3 Susan Gilbert, University of Pittsburgh
Title : Mitotic Kinesin Eg5: A Nanoscale Motor Powerful Enough for Spindle Assembly
 *** October 28, 2005 at 12 noon Lecture Room 6 Scaife Hall Sunil Saxena, University of Pittsburgh: Senior Vice Chancellor Lecture Series
Title : ESR Spectroscopic Rulers: Toward Measurement of Global Folding and Large Amplitude Dynamics in Proteins
 4 November 3, 2005 at 11:00 AM Auditorium 1018 BST3 Arthur La Porta, Stanford University
Title : Using force and torque based optical trap assays to probe the role of pausing in transcriptional regulation.
 5 November 10, 2005 at 11 A.M. Auditorium 1018 BST3 Lynmarie Thompson, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Title : NMR Studies of Transmembrane Signaling Mechanisms in Bacterial Chemotaxis Receptors
 6 November 17, 2005 at 11 A.M. Auditorium 1018 BST3 Dan Zuckerman, University of Pittsburgh
Title : The Secret Lives of Proteins: Can Theory and Experiment Team Up to Uncover the Action?
 --- November 24, 2005 at 11 A.M. Auditorium 1018 BST3 CANCELLED (Thanksgiving)
 
 7 December 1, 2005 at 11:00 AM Auditorium 1018 BST3 Daniel Mueller, BioTechnological Center, University of Technology Dresden, Germany
Title : Atomic force microscopy and spectroscopy in molecular biology
 *** December 2, 2005 at 12:00 Noon Room 1395 BSTWR Daniel Mueller, BioTechnological Center, University of Technology Dresden, Germany
Title : Observing folding, activation and function of single membrane proteins at subnanometer resolution
*** Pharmacology Seminar Series
 8 December 8, 2005 at 11:00 AM Auditorium 1018 BST3 Gary Pielak, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Title : In-cell NMR
 9 December 15, 2005 at 11:00 AM Auditorium 1018 BST3 Gordon Rule, Carnegie Mellon University
Title : Role of protein dynamics in the catalytic mechanism of human detoxification enzymes.
 --- December 22, 2005 at 11:00 AM Auditorium 1018 BST3 CANCELLED (Winter Recess)
Title :
 --- December 29, 2005 at 11:00 AM Auditorium 1018 BST3 CANCELLED (Winter Recess)
Title :
 10 January 5, 2006 at 11:00 AM Auditorium 1018 BST3 Megan Spence, University of Pittsburgh
Title : Looking at membrane-associated proteins: applying solid-state NMR techniques to moderate dipolar couplings.
 11 January 12, 2006 at 11:00 AM Auditorium 1018 BST3 Manimalha Balasubramani, Proteomics Manager, Genomics and Proteomics Core Laboratories University of Pittsburgh
Title : Mass spectrometry in the proteomics toolkit.
 12 January 19, 2006 at 11:00 AM Auditorium 1018 BST3 Osnat Herzberg, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute (UMBI), USA
Title : Chasing the Function of Hypothetical Proteins
 13 January 26, 2006 at 11:00 AM Auditorium 1018 BST3 Bill Furey, University of Pittsburgh
Title : Thiamin Diphosphate Dependent Enzymes: The Roles of Protein-cofactor and Protein-intermediate Interactions in Catalysis and in Assembly of the Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Multienzyme Complex, as revealed from crystal structure analyses.
 14 February 2, 2006 at 11:00 AM Auditorium 1018 BST3 Stephen White, University of California Irvine, USA
Title : Translocon- assisted Folding of Membrane Proteins
 15 February 9, 2006 at 11:00 AM Auditorium 1018 BST3 Sanford Asher, University of Pittsburgh
Title : UV Raman Direct Measurement of the Ramachandran Psi Angle Enables Determination of the Peptide and Protein Folding Reaction Coordinate and Energy Landscape.
 16 February 16, 2006 at 11:00 AM Auditorium 1018 BST3 James Barber, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, UK
Title : Structure of Photosystem II and its implications for understanding the water splitting mechanism
 17 February 23, 2006 at 11:00 AM Auditorium 1018 BST3 Guo-Ping Zhou
Title : Structural and Functional Studies of Macromolecular Interactions by NMR
 18 March 2, 2006 at 11:00 AM Auditorium 1018 BST3 Sanford Leuba, University of Pittsburgh
Title : Nucleosomes, chromatin fibers and molecular motors
 19 March 9, 2006 at 11:00 AM --- CANCELLED (Spring Break)
 --- March 16, 2006 at 11:00 AM --- CANCELLED (Pittcon)
 20 March 23, 2006 at 11:00 AM Auditorium 1018 BST3 E. Michael Ostap, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Title : Regulation of Myosin I by Calmodulin and PIP2
 *** NOTE DIFFERENT DATE AND TIME: March 29, 2006 at 12:00 noon NOTE DIFFERENT PLACE: Kresge Conference Center, 1175 Benedum Hall Steven B. Smith, University of California, Berkeley
Title : Structural transitions and twist-elasticity of DNA as measured in single-molecule nano-machines
 21 March 30, 2006 at 11:00 AM Auditorium 1018 BST3 Steven B. Smith, University of California, Berkeley
Title : Two molecular motors studied with force-measuring optical tweezers: NS3 helicase from hepatitis C virus and the capsid-packaging motor from bacteriophage phi-29
 *** NOTE DIFFERENT DATE: April 5, 2006 at 4:00 pm Chevron Science Center
Room 12		 Wayne Hubbell, University of California Los Angeles, USA
Title : Site Directed Spin Labeling: The technology and applications in protein science
 22 NOTE DIFFERENT TIME: April 6, 2006 at 2:30 pm NOTE DIFFERENT PLACE:
Chevron Science Center
Room 12		 Wayne Hubbell, University of California Los Angeles, USA
Title : Molecular Mechanisms in Visual Signal Transduction: Lessons from Site-Directed Spin Labeling
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NOTE DIFFERENT DATE:
April 12, 2006

NOTE EXTENDED TIME:

11 am - 1:30 pm

 Auditorium 1018 BST3

Jianfei Hua, University of Pittsburgh

Lin Liu, University of Pittsburgh

Matt Fagerburg, University of Pittsburgh

Michael Yonkunas, University of Pittsburgh

Yuanyuan Duan, University of Pittsburgh
Title : First Year Molecular Biophysics Graduate Student Rotation Report Mini-Symposium
 - April 13, 2006 --- CANCELLED (Passover)
 25 April 20, 2006 Auditorium 1018 BST3 Takis Benos, University of Pittsburgh
Title : DNA signal recognition: keeping it above noise
 26 April 27, 2006 Auditorium 1018 BST3 CANCELLED (ENC)
 
 27 May 4, 2006 Auditorium 1018 BST3 Peijun Zhang, University of Pittsburgh
Title : Architecture of the chemotaxis receptor in bacterial cells
 28 May 11, 2006 Auditorium 1018 BST3 Linda C. Hsieh-Wilson, California Institute of Technology, USA
Title : Chemical Approaches to Understanding Protein Glycosylation in the Brain
 29 May 18, 2006 Auditorium 1018 BST3 Eric T. Ahrens, Carnegie Mellon University
Title : New Directions in Cellular & Molecular MRI
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NOTE DIFFERENT DATE AND TIME:

May 22, 2006 at 10 am

 Auditorium 1018 BST3 Jonathan King, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title : Folding, Misfolding and Aggregation of Human Eye Lens Gamma-Crystallins
 30 May 25, 2006 Auditorium 1018 BST3 Ed Levitan, University of Pittsburgh
Title : Surprising Secretory Vesicles
 31 June 1, 2006 Auditorium 1018 BST3 Vasanthi Jayaraman, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Title : Glutamate receptors as seen by light
 32 June 8, 2006 Auditorium 1018 BST3 Christian Schafmeister, University of Pittsburgh
Title : Sequence-based control of BIS-peptide shape
 --- June 9 - August 31, 2006 Summer Break no seminars
 

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