Visiting Seminar Series 2010-2011
- Jeffrey G. Forbes, Laboratory of Muscle Biology NIAMS/NIH
"Intrinsic Disorder and Protein Nanomechanics" - Malika Jeffries-EL, Iowa State University
"Teaching Old Polymers New Tricks: Novel Conjugated Materials Based on Benzobisazoles" - Sandy Dasgupta, University of Texas-Arlington
"Ionic Diodes, Solution Phase Charge Detectors and Other Tales of Mystery and Imagination" - Gabriela C. Weaver, Purdue University
"Evaluation of Implementation Approaches of a Research-Based Laboratory Curriculum" - Professor Mu-Hyun Baik, Indiana University-Bloomington
"Understanding Water Oxidation Catalysis: Insights from Computer Simulations" - Professor Matthias Rief, Technische Universitat Munchen, (2011 Zimmer Int'l Scholar)
"Mechanics and Dynamics of Single Protein Molecules" - Professor Matthias Rief, Technische Universitat Munchen, (2011 Zimmer Int'l Scholar)
"Single Molecule Force Spectroscopy in Protein Folding" - Professor James P. Stambuli, The Ohio State University
"Development of Palladium and Calcium Catalysts for Chemical Reactions" - Eugene Smotkin, Northeastern University
"Elucidating the Ionomer Electrified Metal Interface" - Professor Alexander Wei, Purdue University
"Immutable Ligands for Microbial Detection and Capture" - Professor Jeffrey Skolnick, Georgia Institute of Technology
"New Approaches to Protein Functional Inference and Ligand Screening with Applications to the Human Kinome" - Professor Kurt Wuthrich, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA
"Current Trends in Structural Biology" - Professor Charles Weissmann, The Scripps Research Institute, Florida
"A Tale from Two Cities" (Oesper Banquet Speaker) - Professor Kurt Wuthrich, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA
"NMR with Proteins - from Hemoglobin to Structural Genomics" (Oesper Award Lecture) - Professor John Bushweller, University of Virginia
"NMR Structural and Chemical Biology: Understanding and Inhibiting MLL Fusion Proteins in Leukemia" (Oesper Speaker) - Professor Mark Rance, University of Cincinnati
"NMR Studies of Protein Side-Chain Dynamics" (Oesper Speaker) - Professor Arthur Pardi, University of Colorado
"NMR and Single Molecule Techniques for Studying RNA Folding and RNA-protein Recognition" (Oesper Speaker) - Professor Charles Weissmann, The Scripps Research Institute, Florida
"Darwinian Evolution of Prions" (Oesper Speaker) - Professor Werner Braun, University of Texas Medical Branch
"Structural Biology of Allergens" (Oesper Speaker) - Professor Dinshaw Patel, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
"Structural Biology of Small RNA-mediated Gene Regulation and Methylation-mediated Epigenetic Regulation" (Oesper Speaker) - Professor Gerhard Wagner, Harvard Medical School
"Regulation of Cellular Homeostasis through Protein Interactions" (Oesper Speaker) - Professor Cynthia Burrows, University of Utah
"What can guanine oxidation tell us about DNA sequencing, cancer, and the origin of life?" - Professor Nils Walter, University of Michigan
"Scientists Watching Action Movies: Single Molecule Enzymology of Natural and Engineered RNA (DNA, Protein) Nanomachines" - Professor Eva Marie Harth, Vanderbilt University
"Organic Nanoscopic Architectures for Targeted Drug Delivery and Imaging" - Professor Lawrence Pratt, Fisk University
"Copper and Nickel Coupling Reactions" - Professor Davit Zargarian, University of Montreal
"Pincer-type Complexes of Divalent and Trivalent Nickel: Redox Chemistry and Catalytic Reactions" - Professor Robert Jernigan, Iowa State University
"Functional Motions of Proteins from Computations" - Professor Maria DeRosa, Carleton University
"DNA Nanotechnology for 'Smart' Materials and Biosensing" - Professor Horia Petrache, IUPUI
"Electrostatic and van der Waals Forces in Lipid Membranes" - Professor Anna Mapp, University of Michigan
"Small and Large-Molecule Transcriptional Regulators" - Professor Christy L. Haynes, University of Minnesota
"Electroanalytical Eavesdropping on Cellular Communication"