mit biophysics–CSB seminar series

 

DECEMBER 16

Ron Weiss

MIT

Synthetic biology: From modules to systems

Mark Bathe

Biological Engineering

DECEMBER 2

Amar Thyagarajan

Ting-lab, MIT

Imaging trans-synaptic protein-protein interactions to study the molecular mechanisms of synapse development

Alice Ting

Chemistry

NOVEMBER 18

Galit Lahav

Harvard Medical School

We’re all individuals; studying p53 dynamics in single cells

Narendra Maheshri

Chemical Engineering

NOVEMBER 4

Featured Speaker:

James J. Collins

Boston University & HHMI

Engineering gene networks: Integrating synthetic biology & systems biology

Ron Weiss

Biological Engineering, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

OCTOBER 21

Will Greenleaf

Xie-lab, Harvard

RNA under tension: The mechanics of transcription termination and riboswitch folding investigated with optical tweezers

Matthew J. Lang

Biological Engineering,
Mechanical Engineering

OCTOBER 7

Paul Maddox

Université de Montréal

Live-cell imaging assays of centromere specification and chromosome dynamics

Iain Cheeseman

Biology,

Whitehead Institute

SEPTEMBER 30

Structure determination of amyloid fibrils with solid-state NMR

Andrei Tokmakoff

Chemistry

SEPTEMBER 23

Jané Kondev

Brandeis University

Biochemistry on a leash: How formins accelerate actin filament growth

Jeff Gore

Physics

SEPTEMBER 9

Tobias Baumgart

University of Pennsylvania

Sorting of lipids and proteins in membrane curvature and composition gradients

Narendra Maheshri
Chemical Engineering

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A new reading & discussion course, 20.947: Evaluating Current Research in Molecular & Cellular Biophysics, based on this seminar series will be offered this fall by Mark Bathe, Long Cai, Iain Cheeseman, Jeff Gore, Matthew Lang, Narendra Maheshri, and Andrei Tokmakoff.

OCTOBER 14

Alan Fersht

University of Cambridge

Protein folding mechanisms

Alan P. Jasanoff

Biological Engineering,
Nuclear Engineering,
Brain & Cognitive Sciences

Biophysics seminars begin at 4:05pm in 32–141.
CSB seminars begin at 3:05pm in 32–463D.

SEPTEMBER 16

Roya Zandi

University of California Riverside

Nonequilibrium growth, retroviruses and conical structures

Mehran Kardar

Physics

NOVEMBER 6

CSB Seminar

Roy Kishony

Harvard Medical School

Drug interactions and their impact on the evolution of resistance

Jeff Gore

Physics

NOVEMBER 13

CSB Seminar

Johan Paulsson

Harvard Medical School

Understanding non-genetic heterogeneity in cells

Alexander van Oudenaarden

Physics, Biology

DECEMBER 4

CSB Seminar

Michael Elowitz

Caltech

Dynamic signal encoding for stress response and development

CSB Graduate Students

NOVEMBER 20

CSB Seminar

Samy Meroueh

Indiana University School of Medicine

Computational design of molecules that modulate interactions critical in tumor invasion and metastasis

Collin Stultz

EECS, HST