Events

Upcoming Events in the Molecular Physiology & Biophysics Department

Date	Speaker	Title	Location
11/12/2018	Ken Taylor Florida State University	Structure of native myosin thick filaments from insect flight muscle; insight into the influence of myosin head conformation in the packing of long alpha-helical coiled-coils	HSRF 400

Past Events in the Molecular Physiology & Biophysics Department

Date	Speaker	Title	Location
10/22/2018	Elizabeth Rhoades University of Pennsylvania	It takes tau to tangle: functional studies of a dysfunctional protein	HSRF 400
10/1/2018	Lee Sweeney, University of Florida	Role of Myo10 in skeletal muscle	HSRF 400
6/21/2018	Motoshi Kaya, University of Tokyo	LEARNING FROM SKELETAL AND CARDIAC MYOSIN	HSRF 200
5/15/2018	Haein Kim UVM	TEMPORAL COORDINATION OF MITOTIC CHROMOSOME ALIGNMENT AND SEGREGATION: STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL STUDIES OF KIF18A	Davis Auditorium
5/7/2018	Kristen Verhey University of Michigan Medical School	Structural and functional diversity across the kinesin superfamily.	HSRF 400
4/30/2018	Scott Gerber Dartmouth College	Global Assessment of PLK1 Network Dynamics Identifies Inhibition of PP6 as a Mechanism to Promote Aurora A Activity	HSRF 400
4/23/2018	Jonathan King Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Function and Assembly of the Human TriC/CCCT Chaperonin That Folds Cytoskeletal Proteins	HSRF 400
4/9/2018	Benjamin Miller Colorado State University	Mitochondrial Biogenesis With Slowed Aging: Why Cell Proliferation Matters	HSRF 400
3/23/2018	Brandon Bensel Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	The Kinesin-2 KIF3C Imparts Unique Stepping Characteristics to KIF3AC	HSRF 200
3/21/2018	Jamie Stern UVM	THESIS DEFENSE: Single Molecule Imaging Reveals Tau Structure and Function on the Microtubule Surface	MEC 200
2/26/2018	Meredith Weck Vanderbilt University	Mechanisms of myosin-7b function in brush border assembly	HSRF 400
2/13/2018	Andrew Lombardo UVM	THESIS DEFENSE: Cargo Transport by Myosin Va Molecular Motors Within Three-Dimensional In Vitro Models of the Intracellular Actin Cytoskeletal Network	MEC 200
2/5/2018	Jonathan Kirk Loyola University Chicago	Cardiac Dyssynchrony, the Myofilament, and GSK-3B: The Good, The Bad, and The Oxford Comma.	HSRF 400
1/22/2018	Anne Murphy Johns Hopkins School of Medicine	Functional studies of Troponin I C-terminal phosphorylation and other proteomic adventures	HSRF 400
1/8/2018	Arne Gennerich Albert Einstein College of Medicine	Single-Molecule Dissection Of Cytoplasmic Dynein Tension Sensing And Force Generation	HSRF 400
12/18/2017	Sakthivel Sadayappan University of Cincinnati	Molecular Aspects of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy in Populations of US-South Asian Descendants	HSRF 400
12/11/2017	Jianing Li UVM	Capturing the Multiscale Dynamics of Complex Biophysical Systems	HSRF 400
12/1/2017	Matthew Tyska Vanderbilt University	Building the brush border: shaping the cell surface with motors and adhesion.	Trapp Family Lodge
11/30/2017	Sanford Bernstein San Diego State University	Unraveling Myosinopathy Mechanisms	Trapp Family Lodge
11/3/2017		Research Forum: EmaA: Le Mysteres des Alignements	HSRF 200
10/30/2017	Benjamin Prosser University of Pennsylvania	Inotropy via cytoskeletal regulation	HSRF 400
5/22/2017	Sam Walcott University of California, Davis	Mathematical Modeling and Molecular-Scale Experiments Provide a Consistent Description of Skeletal Muscle Activation.	HSRF 400