EVENTS: IBD Seminars

We began announcing the presence of the IBD on campus with a series of Joint Symposia involving faculty in the two common divisions of study-the Physical Sciences and the Biological Sciences, with both local and outside speakers. We then moved to presenting individual speakers whose interests are also multi-disciplinary.

ACADEMIC YEAR 2001-2002

October 1, 2001
Joint Symposium with Dept. of Chemistry
Ka Yee Lee
Asst. Prof., Dept. of Chemistry and IBD, UofC
kayeelee@uchicago.edu
"Lipid-protein interactions at interfaces: from lung surfactant to antimicrobial peptides"

October 22, 2001
Gerhard Hummer
Senior Scientist, Laboratory of Chemical Physics, NIDDK
"Water in hydrophobic channels: from nanotubes to proteins"

November 14, 2001
Joint with Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
David Agard
Prof., HHMI Investigator, Dept. of Biochemistry & Biophysics, UC at San Francisco
"Impact of protein folding landscapes on biological functions: longevity through kinetic stability"

January 29, 2002
Josef Käs
Asst. Prof., Dept. of Physics, Biomolecular Materials Group, UT Austin (with James Franck Institute)

February 4, 2002
Angela Belcher
Asst. Prof., Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Biomolecular Materials Group, UT Austin (with Dept. of Chemistry)

April 1, 2002
tentative: Helmuth Möhwald, MPI for Colloids and Interfaces, Gölm, Germany
(with Dept. of Chemistry)

Wednesday, May 16, 2001
Tom W. Muir
Joint with Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Asst. Prof. and Head, Ruben Laboratory of Synthetic Chemistry, Rockefeller University
"Protein ligation: Linking chemistry and biology one peptide bond at a time"

Wednesday, March 14, 2001
Paul Wiseman
PhD, Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UC, San Diego
"Biophysical applications of image correlation spectroscopy and image cross-correlation spectroscopy"

Monday, January 29, 2001
ChinLin Guo
PhD, UC, San Diego
"A new view of the mechanism and kinetics of beta-hairpin formation"

Monday, January 22, 2001
Special Seminar
Wah Chiu
PhD; Director, National Center for Macromolecular Imaging, and Graduate Program in Structural and Computational Biology and Molecular Biophysics
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
"Hybrid of electron cryo-microscopy and bioinformatics to reveal protein folds in domains of biological machines"

Thursday, August 3, 2000
Special Seminar
Chengye Yuan
Prof., Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry
Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences
"Design and synthesis of organophosphorus compounds with biological significances"

Monday, June 5, 2000
Joint with Dept. of Computer Science, Bioinformatics
Frank Brown
PhD, Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UC San Diego
"Looking inside the ensemble: Applications to single molecular spectroscopy in low temperature glasses and single protein tracking on the surface of cells"

Tuesday, April 18, 2000
Special IBD/James Franck Institute seminar
Rigoberto Hernandez
Asst. Prof., School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology
"Chemistry in changing environments: The role of nonstationary friction in polymers and proteins"

Saturday, April 8, 2000
Special Symposium
"Translation of Biomaterials Research into Biotechnology"
Co-sponsored by University of Chicago's Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC), the IBD, the Physical Sciences Division and Biological Sciences Division
The symposium featured talks on a variety of biomaterials-related subjects by seven renowned scientists whose work defines the state-of-the-art in these forefront areas.

Monday, March 27, 2000
Joint with Dept. of Physics
Philippe Cluzel
PhD, Dept. of Molecular Biology and Dept. of Physics
Princeton University
"Non-genetic individuality and multicellular behavior of bacteria"

Thursday, March 16, 2000
Joint with Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Stanley Opella
Prof., Dept. of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania
"NMR spectroscopy and functional genomics"

Wednesday, February 23, 2000
Dr. Gottfried Otting
Karolinska Institute
"Protein NMR spectroscopy: New methods and ligand-binding studies"

Wednesday, January 26, 2000
Joint with Dept of Computer Science
Dr. Teresa Head-Gordon
Physical Biosciences and Life Sciences Divisions
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA
"Facing the challenges in structural and functional genomics"

Wednesday, November 17, 1999
Dr. Thomas A. Steitz
HHMI Investigator, Dept of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry,
Yale University
"The 50S ribosomal subunit and ligand complexes at 5A resolution and counting"

Wednesday, October 27, 1999
Dr. David Millar
Dept. of Molecular Biology, Scripps Research Institute
"Using photons to probe the conformational dynamics and function of nucleic acid enzymes"

Wednesday, May 26, 1999
Gregory Voth
Prof., Dept. of Chemistry and Director, Henry Eyring Center for Theoretical Chemistry, University of Utah
"Computer simulations of proton transport through water and biomolecular systems"

Dean Astumian
Assoc. Prof., Depts. of Surgery and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UofC
"How ion pumps pump ions"

Wednesday, May 5, 1999
Steve Kron
Asst. Prof., Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, Center for Molecular Oncology, UofC
"Accelerators and brakes in the cell duplication cycle"

Wednesday, April 28, 1999
Rob Coalson
Prof., Dept. of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh
"A lattice relaxation algorithm for 3D Poisson-Nernst-Planck theory with application to ion transport through the Gramicidin A channel"

Wednesday, April 7, 1999
Joint Symposium with Computations in Science
José Onuchic
Prof., Dept. of Physics, U C, San Diego
"Exploring the protein folding funnel landscape: connection to experiments"

Michael Weiss
Prof., Depts. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Chemistry, UofC
"Stereospecific protein engineering"

Wednesday, March 31, 1999
Simon Mochrie
Prof., Dept. of Physics, MIT
"Opportunities for X-ray scattering in biological systems at the Advanced Photon Source"

Wednesday, March 3, 1999
Pamela Strissel
PhD, Hematology/Oncology Section, Dept. of Medicine, UofC
"Introduction: Cellular roles of divalent cations and new and old insights into chromosome structure"

Riccardo Levi-Setti
Prof., Enrico Fermi Institute, Dept. of Physics, UofC
"Divalent cations in active chromosomes: Quantitative mapping by imaging secondary ion mass spectrometry"

Reiner Strick
PhD, Hematology/Oncology Section, Dept. of Medicine, UofC
"Divalent cations are essential for chromosome structure and maintenance: Interactions of Ca and Mg with chromosome structural proteins"

Janet Rowley
Prof., Hematology/Oncology Section, Depts. of Medicine, and Human Genetics, UofC
"Concluding Remarks"

Wednesday, February 3, 1999
Dorothy Hanck
Prof., Depts. of Medicine and Pharm. & Physiol. Sciences, UofC
"Ion channel gating: Using the energy of the electrical field to control protein conformation"

Robert Dunn
Prof., Dept. of Chemistry, University of Kansas
"Probing protein channel dynamics at the single molecule level"

Wednesday, January 6, 1999
Susan Lindquist
Prof., HHMI Investigator, Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, UofC
"A new mechanism of inheritance: self-perpetuating protein/protein interactions"

Ka Yee Lee
Asst. Prof., Dept. of Chemistry, UofC
"Collapse mechanism in lung surfactant systems"

Wednesday, December 9, 1998
Steve Empedocles
PhD, Dept. of Chemistry, MIT
"Microscopic studies of a nanoscopic world: Spectroscopy of single nanocrystal quantum dots"

John Marko
Prof., Depts. of Physics and Bioengineering, UIC
"Biophysics of chromosomes of bugs and beasts"

Thursday, October 8, 1998
David Grier
Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Physics, UofC
"When like charges attract: Macroionic interactions in simple electrolytes"

Daphne Preuss
Asst. Prof., Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, UofC
"How cells sort chromosomes: Analysis of centromere structure and function"