Events

Upcoming Events in the Molecular Physiology & Biophysics Department

Date	Speaker	Title	Location
4/30/2018	Scott Gerber, Ph.D. Dartmouth College	Global Assessment of PLK1 Network Dynamics Identifies Inhibition of PP6 as a Mechanism to Promote Aurora A Activity	HSRF 400
5/7/2018	Kristen Verhey, Ph.D. University of Michigan Medical School	Structural and functional diversity across the kinesin superfamily.	HSRF 400

Past Events in the Molecular Physiology & Biophysics Department

Date	Speaker	Title	Location
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
5/8/2017	Magdalena Bezanilla University of Massachusetts Amherst	THE UNDERLYING CYTOSKELETAL MACHINERY DURING POLARIZED CELL EXPANSION.	HSRF 400
5/1/2017	Adam Hendricks McGill University	Microtubule Associated Proteins and Bundling Direct Intracellular Trafficking	HSRF 400
4/24/2017	Scott Stagg Florida State University	Using High-Throughput High-Resolution Cryo-EM to Address Challenging Questions in Structural Biology	HSRF 400
4/10/2017	Aaron Straight Stanford University	Epigenetic Control of Chromatin States	HSRF 400
4/3/2017	Elizabeth Smith Dartmouth College	The Role of Calmodulin Interacting Proteins in Ciliary Motility and Assembly	HSRF 400
3/27/2017	Chris Newhard Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	Structural Mechanisms of the Myosin Converter that Set Load-Dependent Muscle Shortening Velocity	Given C443
2/6/2017	Brenda Russell University of Illinois at Chicago	Mechanobiology: Cardiac Muscle, Fibroblasts and Stem Cells	HSRF 400
12/14/2016	Luther Pollard UVM	Thesis Defense: Myo2 Motor Function in the Contractile Ring and the Regulation of Fission Yeast Cytokinesis	Davis Auditorium
12/2/2016		Research Forum: Structural and Functional Dynamics of Tau	HSRF 200
11/30/2016	Thomas Sladewski UVM	Molecular Mechanisms of MRNA Transport by a Class V Myosin and Cytoplasmic Dynein.	HSRF 400
11/21/2016	Michael Toth, UVM	Muscle disuse as the facilitator of age- and disease-related muscle atrophy and weakness in humans	HSRF 400