Seminar+Schedule

Unless otherwise noted, all seminars start at 10:00AM in the Small Seminar Room.

April 3 Welcome! April 4 free April 5 M.Dahan //Amplification of gradient sensing in nerve growth cones through lateral redistribution of membrane receptors //April 6. X.Michalet //Novel single-molecule fluorescence methods //April 7 W.W.Webb //Multiphoton microscopy //**April 8-9 Week-end**

April 10 W.W.Webb //FCS and biological applications. //April 11 G.Zocchi //Evanescent wave scattering: a high resolution probe for conformational changes of biomolecules //April 12 S.Adams //Genetically-encoded tags for proteins

//April 13 M.Weiss //Mesoscopic simulations of membranes// T.Liverpool //Phases and Mechanics of motor/filament interactions// M.Turner //The role of lipid recycling in raft size control//

April 14 P. Sens //Chromosome motion and positioning in mitosis// A.Zilman //Physics of the nuclear pore transport// S.Sun //How do molecules walk//
 * April 15-16 Week-end**

April 17 Alexei Kornyshev //An overview of DNA interaction, recognition, and aggregation //3PM talks: R. Netz //Propulsion with Semi-Flexible Polymers;// M.Bekele //Brownian heat engine -- A model// April 18 X.Darzacq //Live cell analysis of RNA polymerase II transcription //April 19 U.Seifert //TBA //April 20 free April 21 E.Lipman //Single-Molecule FRET: An Introduction and Some Applications//
 * April 22-23 Week-end**

April 24 free April 25 A.Wells //Getting the message out : motors that move mRNAs //April 26 P.Selvin //Single Molecule Studies of Molecular Motors, both in vitro & in vivo. //April 27 A.Liu //Actin based motility //April 28 M.Dogterom //Cytoskeleton-based force generation//
 * April 29-30 Week-end**

May 1 F.Julicher //The Physics of Cell Division //May 2 O.Saleh //FtsK: a “Formula 1” molecular motor. //May 3 M.Wang //Mechano-Chemical Kinetics of Transcription Elongation //May 4 J.Theriot //Crawling cells and comet tails//// //May 5 S.Xie //Enzymatic dynamic disorder//// //**May 6-7 Week-end**

May 8 E.Gratton //Particle tracking in 3D with 2-photon excitation//// //May 9 S.Kowalczykowski //Visualization of Protein-DNA Complexes at the Single-Molecule level //May 10 R.Ebright //The mechanism of RNA polymerase I //May 11 R.Ebtright //The mechanism of RNA polymerase II //May 12 J.Spudich //Molecular Motors: From Streaming in Nitella to Single Molecule Analysis //**May 13-14 Week-end**

May 15 C.Schulten //Proteins with mechanical functions //J. Theriot //Cytoskeletal elements in bacteria //May 16 T.J.Ha //Advances in single molecule FRET //May 17 T.J.Ha //Single molecule studies of helicases mechanisms //May 18 S.Ramaswamy //TBA //May 19 free // //**May 20-21 Week-end**

May 22 C.Jarzynski //Nonequilibrium thermodynamics at the microscale// May 23 A.Vologodsky //How Protein-induced Local DNA Bends Can Regulate Global DNA Topology// R.T. Dame //Bacterial Chromatin organization: Insights from single and dual DNA micromanipulation experiments// May 24 T.Ellenberger //The Anatomy of Infidelity. Lesion Bypass by High and Low Accuracy DNA Polymerases //May 25 T.Ellenberger //DNA End Joining and Recombination in Three Dimensions //May 26 S.Hell //Breaking Abbe’s barrier: Far-field fluorescence microscopy with diffraction-unlimited resolution//
 * May 27-28 Week end**

May 29 free May 30 J.Widom //Chromatin //May 31 J.Widom //Chromatin //June 1 L.Finzi //Transcriptional DNA looping 3:30 A.Grosberg, L.Mirny, and R.Bruinsma: Protein Sliding along DNA //June 2 S.Adyha //TBA 3:30 G.Grason Counterion Condensation in DNA bundles. //**June 3-4 Week-end**

June 5 A. van Oijen //Single-molecule studies of DNA replication 3:30 Katalin Toth: Cromatin Compaction at the Nucleosome Level //June 6 J.Langowski //DNA and Chromatin structure studied by SFM, fluorescence techniques and computer simulations// 3-6 pm: Rob Philips: Jam session on viruses. June 7 W.Olson June 8 V.Rybenkov //DNA unlinking in bacteria //June 9 O. Krichevsky //Internal Dynamics of DNA and Actin polymers//
 * June 10-11 Week-end**

June 12 T. Owen-Hughes //Snf2 family proteins and chromatin remodelling. //June 13 B.Bialek //Physics Problems of early Embryonic Development.//// //June 14 B. Shklovski /A. Grosberg //Physics of DNA in Nanopores. 3:30 Ioulia Rouzina: DNA Stretching Experiments. //June 15 Jane' Kondev, //Structure and organization of chromosomes in vivo.//// 3:30 Lobaskin: Dynamics of Micro-swimming// June 16 H.Orland //RNA folding and matrix field theory//// // **June 17-18 Week-end

June 20 Ioulia Rouzina //Mechanistic insights into the kinetics of HIV.// June 21 Chris Henley //Irreversible growth model for assembling irregular capsids. 3:30 Dennis Rapaport, Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Capsid Self Assembly. // June 22 Paul van der Schoot/Roya Zandi, //Dynamics of Viral Assembly.// 3:30 Fred MacKintosh, //Elastic behavior of actin networks// June 23 Reidun Twarock//, Mathematical Virology// 3:30 Nguyen Toan //Continuum theory of retroviral capsids.//
 * June 19 Michael Rubinstein//, Physical Model of the Airway Surface Layer of a Lung.//
 * June 24-25 Week-end**

June 26 Charles Knobler //Squeezing protein nanocontainers; AFM nanoindentation studies of viral capsids 3:30 William Klug: Numerical Simulations of Protein Layers and Viral Shells. //June 27 David Wu //In vitro papillomavirus capsid assembly analyzed by light scattering// June 28 Adam Zlotnick //Assembly models and their correlation with assembly data// 3:30 Mehran Kardar Anomalous //Diffusion of DNA Translocation// June 29 Ian Molineux //Are viruses pressurized?// June 30 Charles Knobler/Bill Gelbart //Reconstitution of Plant and Animal Viruses.//