Physics 500.005 (29960): a seminar on biophysics and medicine.

            The class will meet at 3:00 pm on Thursdays in room 1131.

            Kevin Cahill gave the first talk on miRNAs, on a Nature article that showed that miRNAs act mainly by stimulating the degradation of mRNAs, and on tip's, which are transmissible interfering particles.

            Keith Lidke gave the second talk on this paper.

            An IGERT seminar on Monday 9/13 was the third talk.

            The seminar of 9/23 will be a talk by Dr. Alex Mogilner, University of California at Davis, on Tuesday, September 21, at 4:00 p.m. in the Harvey Library (BMSB 309).   Title:  "Speed and Accuracy of Mitotic Spindle Assembly."

            Kevin Cahill will talk about statistics on 9/30 at 3 pm.

            Julian Antolin and Steven Posse will give the seminar of 10/7 at 3 o'clock in room 1131.  Title: "An Overview of Compressed Sensing with Application to MR Imaging."

            The talk of 10/21 will be "Integrin nanodomains on leukocyte cell membranes" by Maria F. Garcia-Parajo of the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia on Tuesday, October 19 in Harvey (BMSB 309) at 4:00 p.m.

            Kevin Cahill gave an introduction to protein folding as the 10/28 seminar.

            The talk of 11/4 will be "A Singular View of the Genome" by David C. Schwartz, Professor of Chemistry and Genetics, University of Wisconsin, in Rm. B16 of the Domenici Center (corner of Marble and Stanford, North Campus) on Thursday, November 4th at 3:00pm.

            Steve Koch will talk on November 11th at 3 pm on "Water Isotope Effects on the Biomolecular Motor Kinesin."

            The talk of 11/18 will be by Patrick Cutler on hyperspectral single-molecule localization (pdf) on Thursday, November 18th at 3:00 pm in room 1131.


            Professor Malgorzata Marjanska of the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research of the University of Minnesota will give this week's biophysics seminar on Thursday at 3 pm in room 1131.  Her title is "Hyperpolarized ¹³C spectroscopy in rat brain."

            The last biophysics seminar of this semester on Thursday 9 December at 3:00 pm in room 1131 will be Keith Lidke talking about Hoyer's paper Quantum Dot Blueing and Blinking Enables Fluorescence Nanoscopy and Kevin Cahill talking about the electrostatics of the lipid bilayer of eucaryotic cells.