Fall 2009

Speaker

Topic

September

10

•David Wemmer, UC Berkeley

Biological NMR

17

Roman Boulatov

Forces and chemistry

24

•Robert W. Doms, Univ. of Pennsylvania

Bad viruses

October

1

David Thirumalai, Univ. of Maryland

Biomolecule real structure

15

•Elinor Karlsson, Harvard University

Genomics, man and dog

22

Steven Corcelli, Univ. of Notre Dame

Reaction dynamics

29

•John D. Gearhart, Penn Medicine

Stem cell biology

November

5

TBA

*12

•Kirsten Bomblies, Harvard University

Plant genetics

Spring 2010

January

21

•Yale E. Goldman, Univ. of Pennsylvania

Single molecules

February

4

•Elena Rivas, Janelia Farms

RNA

11

Joan Shea, UCSB

Protein folding

18

•Eric Oldfield, Univ. of  Ill., Urbana

Physical microbiology

25

Dennis Bong, Ohio State University

Molecular self-assembly

March

4

•Alessandro Acquisti, Carnegie Mellon

Privacy/behavioral economics

18

•Coleen Murphy, Princeton University

Molecular biology aging

April

1

•Brian Crane, Cornell University

Electrons in proteins

8

Bertrand Garcia-Moreno, J. Hopkins

Macromolecular assemblies

15

•Trevor Douglas, Montana State University

Extremophiles

22

Max Berkowitz, Univ. of N. Carolina

Proteins in membranes

29

•Michael Reiser, Janelia Farms

Flight control

May

6

Tobias Baumgart, Univ. of Pennsylvania

Chemical bags