Events

Upcoming Events in the Molecular Physiology & Biophysics Department

Date	Speaker	Title	Location

Past Events in the Molecular Physiology & Biophysics Department

Date	Speaker	Title	Location
6/1/2019		Faculty Position – Assistant Professor w/Tenure
5/20/2019	Kaylyn Bell Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	The mechanical basis of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and stretch activation: two sides of cardiac disease	TBA
5/14/2019	Elizabeth McNally Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine	Career Development Q&A: From Bench to Bedside and Beyond	HSRF 200
5/13/2019	Elizabeth McNally Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine	Modifiers of myopathy	MEC 200
5/6/2019	Sharon Amacher Ohio State University	Modeling muscle development and disease in zebrafish	HSRF 400
4/8/2019	Sozanne Solmaz SUNY Binghamton	Cell cycle-specific recognition of the cell nucleus as cargo for dynein dependent transport	HSRF 400
3/25/2019	Kevin Beussman University of Washington	Making sense of excitation, contraction, and e-c coupling in human stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes.	HSRF 400
3/18/2019	Alexandre Bisson Harvard University	Standing on the shoulder of tiny polymers — Building and dividing the prokaryotic cell	HSRF 300
1/28/2019	Michael Ostap University of Pennsylvania	Mechanisms of Force Generation and Sensing by Cytoskeletal Motors.	HSRF 400
11/29/2018	Henry Higgs Dartmouth College	Adventures of an endoplasmic reticulum-bound actin polymerization factor: regulation and effects on mitochondria.	UVM Silver Pavilion / Alumni House
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
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